“(Eva Espejo) She is one of those people who yells at you and you don’t get angry, but you motivate yourself and want to keep doing things well. He has a great personality to motivate us to always be intense, to give ourselves. Besides other things like the study of the teams, we have a much more complete analysis, we are working in a different way and in the end we trust a lot in what Eva tells us “, said Diana Evangelista, player of Striped a Eleven Diary. The most experienced coach in the Liga MX Femenil is shaping up to be the first female champion coach of the pink circuit.
Eva Mirror is a technical director whose jovial voice reveals her barely 35 years, she likes to create projects from scratch and leave them ready to go without her, she always finds the moment to let go to seek evolution.
“If I could describe myself in any way, I think I am like a flower garden of different colors. I am a super authentic person who tries to flourish every day (…) A woman who reinvents herself every day and tries to do something different and understand that I live in an environment where we need to continue pulling people and especially women. women, “said the strategist on the podcast The future.
During the tournament Opening 2021, six women occupied the benches of La Liga MX Women, a few days ago it was learned that Scarlett Anaya would not continue as coach of the León club.
But among them, Eva Mirror She is the one with the most experience in Mexican women’s soccer, because in 2017, when the league was created, she assumed the technical direction of the Pachuca Women’s team and won the title of the first professional women’s soccer tournament in Mexico: the Copa MX Femenil 2017. He also played the first league final in the 2017 Apertura, in which he fell to Guadalajara under coach Luis Camacho. That same year, CONCACAF awarded her the Coach of the Year award.
Throughout six seasons as technical director of PachucaEspejo participated in five Liguillas, on three occasions they reached the semifinals until they fell against the most powerful teams in women’s soccer (Tigres or Rayadas). Last season she served as sports director for Las Tuzas, when Maria Is’s hand reached the quarterfinals, and in Apertura 2021 she is living her first stage with Rayadas de Monterrey, which she has led until the final.
“One of the characteristics that I most admire about this team is the competitiveness it has and the interest in improvement. It is a very restless group that constantly demands and asks for more and that of anyone who is in charge of a group is to motivate them to be better and to pose better challenges and better things. A group that makes its leader grow and its leader corresponds with the same is something that I can even call addictive to be in front of a group like these, “said Espejo on a media day prior to the finals.
The Rayadas footballers found the positive renewal, the arrival of a work team with more female elements (in the technical staff of Eca Espejo is the physical trainer Alba Molina and the Doctor Jessica Tenorio), brought a change to the dressing room with which the players as an Evangelist they felt more confident.
Espejo decided to develop women and one of the philosophies that it seeks to promote among its group of players is to make the next door strong, because as it is a collective, “as long as the next door does well, you will to go well ”.
“In the end, making women self-managed, independent, hurts; because in the end as a coach one day they won’t need you anymore ”.
The strategist believes that the team has achieved each of the objectives it set for itself this season and is targeting the last one, the championship. one of the qualities in which he has tied with the group from Nuevo León.
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