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Lisa Fallon - First Among Equals
Manage episode 320376225 series 2913592
Growing up in Dublin in the 1980s, Lisa Fallon had one female soccer role model – Gabriella Benson.
A woman working in a male-dominated environment, Benson oversaw a professional men’s team – unprecedented at that time.
There was one problem. Benson was fictional – the lead character in UK television series The Manageress.
It still had an impact on the teenage Fallon, watching back home in Ireland.
“It was the first time I ever saw a woman in football,” Fallon told Women’s Soccer Coaching. “It was incredible.”
“I don’t know, if I had never seen it, if I would have pursued it [a career in soccer]. It just goes to show that whole thing of ‘you can’t see, you can’t be’”.
Fallon went on to become Ireland’s first female head coach of a men’s pro club. She was also the first female pundit on men’s professional matches on Irish TV.
46 episodes
Manage episode 320376225 series 2913592
Growing up in Dublin in the 1980s, Lisa Fallon had one female soccer role model – Gabriella Benson.
A woman working in a male-dominated environment, Benson oversaw a professional men’s team – unprecedented at that time.
There was one problem. Benson was fictional – the lead character in UK television series The Manageress.
It still had an impact on the teenage Fallon, watching back home in Ireland.
“It was the first time I ever saw a woman in football,” Fallon told Women’s Soccer Coaching. “It was incredible.”
“I don’t know, if I had never seen it, if I would have pursued it [a career in soccer]. It just goes to show that whole thing of ‘you can’t see, you can’t be’”.
Fallon went on to become Ireland’s first female head coach of a men’s pro club. She was also the first female pundit on men’s professional matches on Irish TV.
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