Former Ireland manager Vera Pauw appointed United Arab Emirates boss

"I want to write a new chapter in the history of the game with fantastic people around me in the UAE.”

NEW ROLE: Vera Pauw has been named the new United Arab Emirates national team head coach. Pic: Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie.

Seventeen months on from being controversially dismissed by the FAI, Vera Pauw is back on the international beat as manager of the United Arab Emirates.

Pauw became the first manager to lead Ireland to a major women’s tournament, the 2023 World Cup, but a combination of dressing-room mutiny and historical allegations of verbal abuse to players in the US – which she denies – blighted the trip to Australia.