Women’s Championship manager sacked just moments after quarter-final match was postponed
The London City Lionesses sacked head coach Carolina Morace on Wednesday night time just just a few hours after their Women’s League Cup quarter-final with Arsenal was postponed.
The girls’s group, which was shaped in 2019 after Millwall Lionesses broke away from the boys’s aspect, made it by way of to the League Cup quarter-final stage for the primary time of their brief historical past.
They had been drawn a troublesome tie towards Arsenal, who at present sit third within the Women’s Super League.
Tickets had been bought out for the match, scheduled to happen at Kent stadium Princes Park in Dartford.
Carolina Morace was sacked by the London City Lionesses
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But a deluge of rain within the space led to the match being postponed round 3pm on the day of the match.
And the postponement proved pricey for Morace, who now will not have the possibility of managing the London City Lionesses for the rescheduled League Cup quarter-final.
The membership introduced on social media at 7.40pm – when the cup tie would have been underway – that Morace had been sacked.
Their assertion learn: “London City Lionesses can verify that now we have at this time parted firm with head coach Carolina Morace and assistant coach Nicola Williams.
“The membership want to place on file its because of Carolina and Nicola for his or her contributions this season; we want all of them the very best.
“Darren Smith, who joined London City as first team goalkeeper coach in August, will take up the position of interim head coach.”
It’s at present unclear when the cup tie will likely be rescheduled, however their consideration now turns to the FA Women’s Cup this weekend.
London City go up towards one other WSL aspect in Liverpool on Sunday earlier than returning to league motion the next week towards Durham.
The Kent-based aspect are perilously near the relegation zone within the Championship as they sit 10th.
Carolina Morace joined the London City Lionesses final summer time
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Morace, who scored greater than 550 targets within the Italian nationwide girls’s league throughout her taking part in profession, took over at London City final summer time after two years away from the sport.
Her dismissal comes just two months after American billionaire Michele Kang bought the membership from Diana Culligan.
Kang made her first foray into sports activities possession with American group Washington Spirit again in 2020 and joined the board of administrators of French aspect Olympique Lyonnais final 12 months.
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American billionaire Michele Kang bought London City Lionesses in December
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She adopted up her buy of London City by getting into baseball by being a part of the group that purchased Baltimore Orioles final month.
Speaking after shopping for London City in December, Kang stated: “I need to thank Diane for her imaginative and prescient in establishing LCL in 2019 and for entrusting me with the duty to take the membership to the following stage.
“I see super risk on this group and sit up for serving to the membership and the gamers attain their highest potential.”