Mary Pry signed as coach of Madrid CFF of the Iberdrola League this Thursday, January 27, until June 2023 after the dismissal of Victor Miguel Fernandezbecoming the sixth technique, of the 16 teams that the league has at the head of a first division team.
Pray joins the list of coaches in the Iberdrola League along with Sarah Monforte (Villarreal FC), Andrea Esteban (Valencia Women’s CF), Iraia Iturregi (Athletics Club), Natalie Arroyo (Royal Society) and Ana Juntent (SD Eibar).
the sevillian Pray He came from Santiago Morning, a team from the Chilean first division, where he only directed nine games after signing in the 2021 summer market. In those games he had six wins, one draw and two losses, qualifying the team for the final of the 2021 national championship He also managed the team in the women’s Copa Libertadores.
“I am very grateful to Madrid CFF for trusting me to occupy their bench. I come with great enthusiasm and I want to help the club achieve its sporting goals,” said the new Madrid CFF coach in an official statement from the club.
Pray You already know what it’s like to lead a First Iberdrola team, after your long stint with Real Betis Balompié Féminas and then Levante UD.
The new coach of the Madrid team has the next objective of reversing the succession of five defeats that Madrid CFF has chained, which is in eleventh position with 20 points.
WOMEN, WITH MORE AND MORE PRESENCE ON THE BENCHES
Of the four Basque teams that play in the Iberdrola League, three of them have a woman managing their first team. Two other coaches are leading teams in Valencian lands. and has joined Mary Pry to the list, as coach of the Madrid CFF of the Madrid community.
Iraia Iturregiwho had been training Athletic Club’s women’s subsidiary for two years, took over the reins of the first team after the departure of Angel Villafranca from the bench of the lionesses for the 21/22 season. The former player of the Bilbao team became the first woman to manage the first women’s team of Athletic Club. Iturregi leads the team in fifth position, with 27 points.
Natalie Arroyoformer soccer player and sports journalist, signed for Real Sociedad in May 2020 and began directing the txuri-urdin team in the 20/21 campaign and last December 2021 she renewed with the San Sebastian entity until 2024.
The Catalan already had experience on the bench, since she was part of the coaching staff of the Catalan women’s soccer team and was also the first coach. Currently, she has Real Sociedad in second position, with 40 points, only behind the almighty Barcelona.
Ana Junyent, former coach of Seagull de Badalona in the Iberdrola Challenge League, signed for Eibar that was going to debut in the women’s first division. It was not only the first experience in the first division for the armory team, but also for their new coach.
The former Catalan soccer player, who wore the Barça and Sabadell shirts, worked in Sacramento and in the Barcelona sports city directing groups of coaches and training sessions. She also spent three years training in the United States in the highest category of the training league.
Andrea Esteban landed on the Valencia Feminine CF bench, after the departure of George Borges. Of all the women who occupy a First Division bench, she is the youngest, born in 1996. Esteban He is a former soccer player but had to retire in March 2019 due to continuous knee injuries, a total of five.
After abandoning soccer practice, he joined the coaching staff of bourgeois in the Valencian first team as second coach in the 21/22 academic year, she became the new coach of Valencia Women.
By last Sarah Monforte, manages the female Villareal CF since the 18/19 season. In her second season at the head of the groguet team, she achieved promotion to the Iberdrola Challenge League and after two years in the women’s second division, they reached the highest category, the Iberdrola League.
Currently, the former Villareal FC and Levante UD player, among other teams, has the yellow submarine in fourteenth position, with 13 points, only one above the relegation places occupied by Sporting de Huelva and Rayo Vallecano.