(GSM) English manager Hope Powell, who guided the England national women s team to the final of the 2009 European Championship in the summer, has revealed she would consider coaching in the men s game.
Powell was previously linked with a move to take over at Grimsby after the final against Germany but caretaker manager Neil Woods was appointed permanently.
But the 43-year-old has admitted she would take the right job if it was offered.
If an opportunity presented itself that I fancied, I m going to look at it, Powell told the Guardian.
It doesn t mean I m going to take it, though, she added.
Powell felt there was little difference between coaching women and men, adding: It s just football to me.
I think the scrutiny for the first female that does this and one day I m sure it will happen, whoever it might be the press will be phenomenal. And if they failed it would be, Well there you go, that s why a woman shouldn t be in men s football , and if they did OK it would be a really difficult position for that person to be in. Really tough.
It s funny isn t it because nobody ever questions men in women s football, never.
