'I select on penis length': First female to coach a men's team in Germany's top five soccer leagues jokes about how she is tackling sexism in the sport
- Football coach Imke Wuebbenhorst hit back at sexist question with a penis joke
- First female coach of a men's team in one of Germany's five top football leagues
- Asked if she has to wear a siren to warn players before entering their locker room
- She said: 'Of course not, I am a professional - I base selections on penis length'
Imke Wuebbenhorst, the new head coach for the men's side at BV Cloppenburg was asked whether she had to wear a siren to warn players before she went into their locker room
The first woman to coach a men's football team in one of Germany's top five leagues hit back at a sexist question by sarcastically suggesting her selections are based on penis length.
Imke Wuebbenhorst, a former Under-20 midfielder, was appointed head coach of the men's side at BV Cloppenburg, who currently sit bottom of the Lower Saxony Oberliga in the fifth tier of German football.
During a press conference a reporter asked her whether she had to wear a siren so that players knew when she was about to walk into their dressing room.
The 30-year-old immediately replied: 'Of course not, I am a professional - I base my selections on penis length.'
As a player, Wuebbenhorst twice won the European title with Germany's Under-19 team and played in the women's Bundesliga for Hamburg.
She then moved to BV Cloppenburg, where she eventually began coaching the women's team in 2016. She refuses to see herself as a pioneer for other women.
'The topic bounces off me. I want to be judged on performances, not on whether I'm a woman or a man,' she told Cloppenburg's website.
'I don't have a problem commanding authority - I'm a teacher.'
The former Under-20 midfielder gave a sarcastic reply to the question, saying that she bases her team selections on penis length
The presence of a female head coach in Germany's lower leagues has attracted plenty of media attention, but Wuebbenhorst is focused solely on the task in hand.
'We only have 12 games left to stay in the league. It's going to be a tough job,' she said.
'Several of my peers have described my new task as a suicide mission, and asked me why I do such a thing, but other clubs are not exactly lining up for me.
'The only fear I have is that a relegation would be blamed on the fact that I am a woman.'
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