On The Move Player Interview: Marisa Ewers (Aston Villa Women)

Marisa Ewers moves from WSL Birmingham City to Championship Aston Villa in her fourth year in England, and takes on a backroom job at the same time as Villa’s Team Analysis and Operations Officer. The 30-year-old German defender and midfielder tells She Kicks that Villa is a huge club with a long history but real ambition for its women’s team, and that she knew the manager Gemma Davies as a coach beforehand. She hopes to lead team-mates and control the tempo of matches. Of a difficult previous season she is matter-of-fact: a dislocated shoulder cost her the first half, and in the second her speed of thought was appreciated by a side that finished fourth. Her team-mates, she notes, always called her the brain.