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Dutch football coach and former player (born 1963)

Vera Pauw
Pauw in 2020
Personal information
Date of birth (1963-01-18) 18 January 1963 (age 61)
Place of birth Amsterdam, Netherlands
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1976–1981 VV Brederodes
1981–1988 VSV Vreeswijk
1988–1990 Modena
Puck Deventer
SV Saestum
International career
1984–1998 Netherlands 89 (2)
Managerial career
1998–2004 Scotland
2004–2010 Netherlands
2011 Russia
2014–2016 South Africa
2018 Houston Dash
2019–2023 Republic of Ireland
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vera Pauw (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈveːraː ˈpʌu]; born 18 January 1963) is a Dutch football coach and former player who most recently managed the Ireland women's team. She has managed several national women's football teams, including Scotland, Netherlands, Russia and South Africa.

Playing career

As a child, Pauw played football with her two brothers on the streets. When she was 13 years old SV Bredorodes started a women's team which Pauw joined, and at the age of 18 she moved to VSV Vreeswijk to play at a higher level. Soon she arrived at the Netherlands women's national football team and from 1983 to 1998 played 89 international matches, but never qualified for the final tournament of a World Cup or European Championship. She did become the first female Dutch player to play professionally outside the country, when she signed for Italian Serie A club Modena in 1988. After two years in Italy, she returned to the Netherlands and played for Puck Deventer and SV Saestum.

International goals

Scores and results list the Netherlands goal tally first.
Goal Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 19 March 1990 Solitude, Belfast, Northern Ireland  Northern Ireland 3–0 6–0 1991 UEFA Women's Euro qualification
2. 16 March 1995 Estádio José Arcanjo, Olhão, Portugal  Sweden 1–1 1–2 1995 Algarve Cup

Coaching career

In September 1998, Pauw was appointed coach and technical director of Scotland, at the same time her husband Bert van Lingen was working as assistant manager of Glasgow Rangers. She departed in October 2004 to take up a similar role with the Netherlands and led her home country to the semi-final of UEFA Women's Euro 2009. She was controversially fired in the first half of 2010.

In April 2011, she succeeded Igor Shalimov as coach of the Russia on an interim basis. In September 2011 she was replaced by Farid Benstiti. After that she was appointed as a technical director of Russian team.

In March 2014, she became the South Africa coach, replacing Joseph Mkhonza who became a selector for the national team. She said at the time "I am excited to become part of this ambitious project in which we can develop our girls into international stars. SAFA is aiming high with women’s football." Pauw explained that she had previously had a great deal of involvement with the South Africa setup due to the frequency of friendlies with the Dutch while she was managing them.

She resigned as South Africa head coach after leading the nation to the 2016 Olympics. On 27 November 2017 Pauw was hired as the new head coach of the Houston Dash. On 20 September 2018 Pauw departed from the National Women's Soccer League club.

On 4 September 2019, Pauw was appointed as the new manager of the Ireland team. Despite Ireland's narrow failure to achieve a play-off position from UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying Group I, Pauw agreed a two-year contract extension in February 2021. She then made up a historic milestone after the narrow missing of the Women's Euro 2022, guiding the Irish team to the first-ever major tournament, the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, with a 1–0 playoff win over Scotland. At the 2023 World Cup, the Republic of Ireland faced Australia, Canada and Nigeria, suffering narrow defeats to the former two and gaining their first World Cup point with a 0-0 against the latter.

On 29 August 2023, Pauw's management of the Republic of Ireland team was brought to an end as it was announced that the Football Association of Ireland would not be offering her a new contract on expiry of her current deal.

Personal life

Pauw is married to her former national team coach Bert van Lingen.

Rape allegations

In July 2022, Pauw accused an unnamed Dutch FA director and later football manager of sexually abusing her during her playing career. Former coach Piet Buter then declared he assumed he was the subject of her accusation and denied all allegations except for having an affair with her at the time. The KNVB (Dutch football association) stated that it had made errors handling Pauw's complaints and was sorry that she had not had a safe working environment.

Misconduct scandal

See also: 2021 NWSL abuse scandal and Yates Report

In December 2022, Pauw was named in a report by the US National Women's Soccer League that discovered widespread ongoing misconduct in the league. The report claimed that during her time in charge of Houston Dash, Pauw attempted to exert excessive control over her players' and staff's diet, weight, fitness, training, housing, and location. Pauw denied any wrongdoing. Pauw is banned from working in the NWSL unless she accepts personal responsibility.

References

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  4. "Vera Pauw vindt nieuwe club in Verenigde Staten". vrouwenvoetbalnieuws.nl (in Dutch). 27 November 2017. Archived from the original on 25 December 2017. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
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  10. "Italy and Russia in 'very important' fixture". UEFA. 25 October 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
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  13. "Safa should go local with new Banyana coach – IOL".
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  20. O'Dea, Arthur James (12 August 2020). "after the men in my family, Rinus Michels was the key man in my life". Off the Ball (media company). Retrieved 23 December 2020.
  21. ‘Ze hebben mijn leven geruïneerd’, zegt oud-bondscoach Vera Pauw over de KNVB - NRC (in Dutch)
  22. Voormalig FC Utrecht-directeur Piet Buter ontkent verkrachting Vera Pauw: ‘Ik ben totaal verbijsterd’ - AD (in Dutch)
  23. "Dutch FA sorry Pauw did not have safe working environment". RTÉ News. 2 July 2022. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  24. ^ "FAI airs support for Pauw in wake of US report". RTÉ. 15 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
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  26. "Statement Regarding Corrective Action" (Press release). National Women's Soccer League. 9 January 2023. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
Vera Pauw international tournaments
Netherlands squad – UEFA Women's Euro 2009 (semi-finalists)
Netherlands
South Africa squad – 2014 African Women's Championship fourth place
South Africa
South Africa women's soccer squad – 2016 Summer Olympics
South Africa
Republic of Ireland squad – 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup
Republic of Ireland
Vera Pauw managerial positions
Scotland women's national football team – managers
(c) = caretaker manager
Netherlands women's national football team – managers
(c) = caretaker manager
Russia women's national football team – managers
Houston Dash – head coaches
Republic of Ireland women's national football team – managers
Current managers of UEFA women's national teams
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