Pilar Neira Explained

Pilar Neira
Full Name:Pilar Neira Martínez
Birth Date:1963 6, df=y
Clubs1:Karbo
Nationalteam1:Galicia women's national team
Managerclubs1:Galicia women's national team

Pilar Neira is a Spanish football coach and former player who coaches the Galicia women's national team.[1] [2] [3]

As a player, Neira won two Spanish championships as part of Karbo C.F. in 1976–77 and 1981–82. As a member of that team, she also took part in two Five Nations tournaments. She worked in children's schools for over 40 years, first as an educator and later as a director. She also trained 11 indoor football teams.[4] She joined the Galicia women's national team as coach in 2007, becoming one of the first four women to become a coach in Spain.[5]

Neira has been outspoken about the issue of sexism in Spanish football.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pilar Neira: "Captar apoyos será fácil; lograr objetivos, difícil". Pilar Neira: "Gaining support will be easy; achieving objectives will be difficult". 15 October 2008. La Opinión de A Coruña.
  2. Web site: A Federación galega cesa a Pilar Neira como seleccionadora. Pilar Neira is removed from the Galician Federation as head coach. 16 June 2015. Nós Diario.
  3. Web site: Pilar Neira: "Non habería que mesturar deporte e política como pasou coa selección galega". "Pilar Neira: "We should not mix sport and politics as happened with the Galician national team".. 30 August 2010. . Doda. Vázquez. https://web.archive.org/web/20100902030517/http://www.xornal.com/artigo/2010/08/29/sociedad/pilar-neira-non-hai-mezclar-deporte-politica-fixo-aqui-coa-seleccion-galega/2010082823560701678.html. 2 September 2010. dead.
  4. Web site: 1 December 2022 . Pilar Neira: "Non sabía que estaba abrindo camiño" . Pilar Neira: "I didn't know I was opening a path"" . 29 August 2023 . La Voz de Galicia . es.
  5. News: Pilar Neira entrenará a la selección gallega femenina . Pilar Neira to coach the Galician women's national team . 6 September 2023 . El Correo Gallego . 17 November 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160309184323/http://www.elcorreogallego.es/index.php?idEdicion=703&idMenu=360&idNoticia=233270 . 9 March 2016 . Spanish.
  6. Martins . Mariana Zuaneti . dos Reis . Heloisa Helena Baldy . November 2018 . "We Are Not Men Less Capables": Negotiations and Claims In Spanish Womens Football . Athenea Digital. Revista de Pensamiento e Investigación Social . 18 . 3 . 8–11. 10.5565/rev/athenea.2148 . 239814830 .