{"id":3713,"date":"2023-07-05T11:38:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T10:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2023-07-05T11:38:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T10:38:10","slug":"hannah-dingley-forest-green-rovers-name-first-female-boss-of-a-mens-professional-football-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2023\/07\/05\/hannah-dingley-forest-green-rovers-name-first-female-boss-of-a-mens-professional-football-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Dingley: Forest Green Rovers name first female boss of a men&#8217;s professional football side"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2023\/07\/130289608_shutterstock_editorial_12605575cv.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2023\/07\/130289608_shutterstock_editorial_12605575cv.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2023\/07\/130289608_shutterstock_editorial_12605575cv-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2023\/07\/130289608_shutterstock_editorial_12605575cv-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Forest Green Rovers have named Hannah Dingley as their new caretaker boss, making her the first woman to manage a professional men&#8217;s team in English football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The League Two side sacked Duncan Ferguson on Tuesday after just six months in charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forest Green announced Dingley, the club&#8217;s academy head, would be put in caretaker charge of the first team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her first match in charge will be a friendly at Melksham Town on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 39-year-old said: &#8220;I&#8217;m really excited for this next step of my career. Pre-season has just begun, and the full season kicks off very soon.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/66105649\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forest Green Rovers have named Hannah Dingley as their new caretaker boss, making her the first woman to manage a professional men&#8217;s team in English football. The League Two side sacked Duncan Ferguson on Tuesday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity","category-gender","category-inclusion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}