Liz Mills lands new job in Ivory Coast
Reading Time: 2min | Thu. 08.12.22. | 19:20
This is the sixth African country where the Australian has worked after Zambia, Cameroon, Rwanda, Kenya, and Morocco,
After a stint in Morocco with the country's AS Sale, trailblazing Australian basketball coach Liz Mills has landed a new job as the new head coach of Ivorian side ABC Fighters.
In Morocco, former Kenya Morans head coach made sporting history by becoming the first woman to coach a professional Moroccan sports team in the country, guiding AS Sale to the quarter-finals of the 2022 Basketball Africa League (BAL) where they were beaten by eventual runners-up Petro de Luanda.
This is the sixth African country where the Australian has worked after Zambia, Cameroon, Rwanda, Kenya, and Morocco, coaching men in each of the countries she has been at.
"I had heard about ABC previously through FIBA Club Championships. They participated in that tournament throughout the decade that I had been on the continent, so I was aware of them as a team," she said as quoted on ESPN.
Her stay at the Kenyan national team however came to an unceremonious end as players expressed a ‘Vote of no Confidence’ in her management style in a tell-all letter signed by a majority of the national team members.
The tactician believes that the players at her new work station have her preferred playing style, just like those in Kenya, Cameroon, and Rwanda.
"Judging by how they play, they're definitely more my style. Like Kenyans or Cameroon or Rwanda, these guys work hard and they want to get better. They have a thirst for continuing to take their team to the next level and I think with the local talents plus imports, this team has shown they're capable of competing at a BAL style tournament" she added.
Previously, the Australian had already made history by becoming the first female head coach at a men's Afrobasket tournament when she led Kenya to the continental championship last summer after a 28-year absence on the continental scene.
