A minute’s silence passed off in tribute to Beard earlier than kick-off in all WSL and WSL2 video games on Sunday.
Additional tributes have been deliberate by Liverpool earlier than their males’s facet play Southampton within the Carabao Cup third spherical at Anfield on Tuesday.
Former Germany worldwide Julia Simic, who performed below Beard at West Ham and is now a youth workforce coach at Eintracht Frankfurt, needs to make use of what she realized from Beard in her personal strategies.
“Matt’s strongest arm was the participant administration,” Simic advised Ladies’s Soccer Weekly. “The care he confirmed everybody. There are other ways to be a great supervisor, you may be tactically very robust, you are able to do the most effective coaching classes however you may as well create the most effective setting.”
Simic, 36, recalled her time below Beard fondly, specifically after they reached the Ladies’s FA Cup closing collectively in 2019.
“I bear in mind he sat in entrance of us as a model new workforce and he mentioned he needed us to achieve the FA Cup closing,” she mentioned.
“Ultimately we made it to Wembley and performed in opposition to Manchester Metropolis as a whole underdog. We misplaced the ultimate and after I spoke to him and I mentioned, ‘Matt, why did not we win?’ and he mentioned, ‘I made a mistake as a result of I mentioned we needed to make it to the ultimate, however I did not say we needed to win the ultimate’.
“With us being on the closing, the journey was executed or the goal was reached. He was all the time so arduous with himself when it comes to eager to get the whole lot out of us and himself.
“He stood in entrance us and mentioned, ‘that is on me, I am sorry, my mistake’. Earlier than I all the time had skilled coaches that will all the time discover excuses or explanations.”
