Willie Kirk fought for “Second Chance” in women’s football after the relationship with the player: “He feels like a prison period”
Former Leicester City The women’s coach Willie Kirk says he is fighting to have a “second chance” in football after be fired by his assignment When he admits he is in a relationship with a player.
Kirk was letting Leicester in March 2024 after an internal investigation discovered that he had violated the code of conduct of the local super league club.
He was suspended in front of the quarterfinals of Leicester’s Fa Cup against Liverpool last mandate and lost three games before being fired. Personal relationships between players and coaches in women’s football can create an imbalance of power and have been criticized in a widely understood way Lionesse trainer Sarina Wiegman.
From his dismissal, Kirk has applied for coaching roles in other WSL clubs, but he says he “never obtained an interview” and that his obtracism from the game “seems a prison sentence”.
“I applied for each vacant WSL place and championship since I lost my job, apart from Arsenal and Manchester City”, Kirk He told BBC Sport.
“I never had an interview. I disappointed myself in terms of what happened to Leicester. I understand why the clubs did not want to be involved, I can understand why people will be angry.
“But in the big scheme of things I have not committed a serious crime. There is no period of prison, but it seems that there has been a period of prison.”
The 46 -year -old knows what he did was wrong and who broke the rules that are taking place to safeguard both players and staff.
“I knew there was a code of conduct, I signed it like everyone else,” Kirk said. “As a manager of the first team you are there to give the example and that’s why I never said I shouldn’t have been fired.
“Sometimes I think I should have denying it and bring him to the grave, but I don’t think he would sit well with me. I just admitted it.
“It was quite public (his dismissal), I hope people think” we can’t do it. “I learned a lot and you never want to spend a year as I spent.
“Everything affects: your professional life, your personal life, your finances, your emotional well -being.”
Kirk spent 14 years in the women’s game managing Leicester, Everton, Bristol City and Hibernian. He is currently studying for a master in the sports direction in the hope of being accepted for a different role within football.
He added: “It will never be acceptable, but when it is accepted? Obviously I will tell me about me when I am trying to find a job, but the statistics show that there is a good job without work.
“I understand, but when someone tells enough it is enough, this person deserves a second chance?”
