Montse Tomé: "We are seeing how women have more and more opportunities to have a professional coaching career".
The Asturian has become one of the role models for women who aspire one day to be elite professional football coaches. Examples include, Natalia Arroyo, Iraia Iturregui, María Pry, Sara Monforte and Irene Ferreras, among others, who have been working for years at club level. All of them have fought for a dream that, based on training and effort, has led them achieving it.
Montse Tomé will be one of the coaches present at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games where, in the coming days, the Spanish Women's National Football Team will start their medal quest. The Asturian has become a role model for women who aspire to one day become elite professional coaches, much like Natalia Arroyo, Iraia Iturregui, María Pry, Sara Monforte, and Irene Ferreras have been at club level for years. All of them fought for a dream that, through training and effort, they have achieved.
"We have female role models in the 'Liga F' who are part of the structure of women's football teams, or the case of Iraia Iturregui who, after managing Athletic Club Femenino for several seasons, is now the assistant coach of a men's football team, CD Basconia. These kinds of situations are bringing us closer to normality. We need to have a vision for the present and the future, seeing that there are opportunities, that by working hard things can happen, and we need to simplify this currently difficult path," says the coach.
One of the pieces of advice Montse Tomé gives to coaches aiming to reach professional football is to persevere: "Football is passion. When you feel that and that you are in the place you want to be, you will persevere. Sometimes you will lose more than you win, but in the long term you will be rewarded, and you need to be persistent. I hope people get excited and encouraged because both men and women can develop in the same context."
Montse Tomé attended the 'III International Congress of Coaches O Caminho do Futgal' as a speaker, a training forum where there is an increasing presence of women. However, in the words of the coach, "I feel that we still only have few female coaches who have the ambition and vision to have a professional career as a coach. From here, I send a message of encouragement because we are seeing how women's football is growing in our country and how female coaches are increasingly getting more opportunities."