The Executive Committee of the Ukrainian Football Association has approved the Spanish specialist Luis Cortes as the head coach of the national women’s national team of Ukraine.
The former Barcelona coach will start working with the national team on November 22, 2021, when the team will gather for a training camp. It will be recalled that on November 26, the national team of Ukraine will play away against Scotland, and on November 30 – against the national team of Hungary. He will also have to attend some league games of the Ukraine Women’s Championship to get talents for his new side’s encounters.
Assistant Joan Ruiz and physical training coach Escura Jordi will help the Spanish specialist.
Cortes has eight years of experience in women’s football. From 2014 to 2018 he led the Catalan teams WU12, WU16 and WU18, as well as the main team.
In the summer of 2017, Cortes joined the women’s team of FC Barcelona as an analyst, and later became an assistant coach. In May 2019, he replaced Fran Sanchez as head coach.
Under his leadership, the club reached its first final of the Women’s Champions League in 2019 , but could not win it, losing to Lyon.
A year later, in 2020, Barcelona won the Spanish Primera and the Spanish Super Cup. They also won the Copa de la Reina twice in two seasons.
In the 2020/21 season, Luis Cortes again takes Barcelona to the Champions League final, and this time, for the first time in the club’s history, they win the title of the strongest team in Europe, beating Chelsea in the final .
Thanks to this success, Cortes won the UEFA award as the best coach in Europe in women’s football, and was recognized as the best coach in Spain in 2021.
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