Tanya Oxtoby has been appointed supervisor of Northern Eire ladies, charged with the temporary to get them to their first Girls’s World Cup.
The 41-year-old West Australian, who has most not too long ago been working as an assistant coach at English ladies’s double-winners Chelsea, has signed a four-year deal.
Oxtoby, who was born and grew up in West Wickham, 200 km west of Port Hedland, earlier than being schooled in Fremantle, turned the primary participant of Indigenous descent to captain a W-League (now A-League Girls) facet when she skippered Perth Glory.
“I’m delighted and honoured to affix the Northern Eire senior ladies’s crew,” Oxtoby mentioned.
“I am actually excited to be a part of the following stage of worldwide ladies’s soccer on this football-loving nation.
“I will likely be giving every thing to assist develop the Northern Eire crew and guarantee ladies’s and women’ soccer continues to develop and succeed on a world stage. I can not wait to get began.”
The Irish FA’s Director of Girls’s Soccer, Angela Platt, mentioned Oxtoby will convey “information, expertise and pedigree” to the function.
“Tanya was the excellent candidate from a really sturdy subject,” added Platt. “We’re assured she will take our worldwide programme to the following stage, giving us the absolute best alternative of reaching our ambition to frequently qualify for main tournaments.”
Northern Eire reached a primary main match for the primary time once they performed at Euro 2022, however didn’t qualify for the 2023 Girls’s World Cup.
In addition to Glory, Oxtoby performed for Northern NSW Satisfaction and Western Waves within the WNSL (a precursor to the W-League), and in England for Doncaster Rovers Belles and Everton.
After teaching roles at Glory and Australia U20s she returned to Britain, managing WSL membership Bristol Metropolis.
Oxtoby’s first recreation accountable for Northern Eire will likely be away to Eire within the UEFA Nations League subsequent month.