Pilar Neira

{{Short description|Spanish footballer (born 1963)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}}

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| full_name = Pilar Neira Martínez

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| clubs1 = Karbo

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| nationalteam1 = Galicia women's national team

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| managerclubs1 = Galicia women's national team

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Pilar Neira is a Spanish football coach and former player who coaches the Galicia women's national team.{{Cite web|url=https://www.laopinioncoruna.es/deportes/2008/10/15/pilar-neira-captar-apoyos-sera-25384541.html|title=Pilar Neira: "Captar apoyos será fácil; lograr objetivos, difícil"|trans-title=Pilar Neira: "Gaining support will be easy; achieving objectives will be difficult"|date=15 October 2008|work=La Opinión de A Coruña}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nosdiario.gal/articulo/deportes/federacion-galega-cesa-pilar-neira-seleccionadora/20150616185949038321.html|title=A Federación galega cesa a Pilar Neira como seleccionadora|trans-title=Pilar Neira is removed from the Galician Federation as head coach|date=16 June 2015|work=Nós Diario}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.xornal.com/artigo/2010/08/29/sociedad/pilar-neira-non-hai-mezclar-deporte-politica-fixo-aqui-coa-seleccion-galega/2010082823560701678.html|title=Pilar Neira: "Non habería que mesturar deporte e política como pasou coa selección galega"|trans-title="Pilar Neira: "We should not mix sport and politics as happened with the Galician national team".|date=30 August 2010|work={{ill|Xornal de Galicia|es}}|first=Doda|last=Vázquez|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100902030517/http://www.xornal.com/artigo/2010/08/29/sociedad/pilar-neira-non-hai-mezclar-deporte-politica-fixo-aqui-coa-seleccion-galega/2010082823560701678.html|archive-date=2 September 2010|url-status=dead}}

As a player, Neira won two Spanish championships as part of Karbo C.F. in 1976–77 and 1981–82. As a member of that team, she also took part in two Five Nations tournaments. She worked in children's schools for over 40 years, first as an educator and later as a director. She also trained 11 indoor football teams.{{Cite web |date=1 December 2022 |title=Pilar Neira: "Non sabía que estaba abrindo camiño" |trans-title=Pilar Neira: "I didn't know I was opening a path"" |url=https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/galicia/2022/11/30/pilar-neiranon-sabia-abrindo-camino/00031669835382178332599.htm |access-date=29 August 2023 |website=La Voz de Galicia |language=es}} She joined the Galicia women's national team as coach in 2007, becoming one of the first four women to become a coach in Spain.{{cite news |title=Pilar Neira entrenará a la selección gallega femenina |trans-title=Pilar Neira to coach the Galician women's national team |url=http://www.elcorreogallego.es/index.php?idEdicion=703&idMenu=360&idNoticia=233270 |access-date=6 September 2023 |work=El Correo Gallego |date=17 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309184323/http://www.elcorreogallego.es/index.php?idEdicion=703&idMenu=360&idNoticia=233270 |archive-date=9 March 2016 |language=Spanish}}

Neira has been outspoken about the issue of sexism in Spanish football.{{Cite journal |last1=Martins |first1=Mariana Zuaneti |last2=dos Reis |first2=Heloisa Helena Baldy |date=November 2018 |title="We Are Not Men Less Capables": Negotiations and Claims In Spanish Womens Football |url=https://www.redalyc.org/journal/537/53759040022/53759040022.pdf |journal=Athenea Digital. Revista de Pensamiento e Investigación Social |volume=18 |issue=3 |pages=8–11|doi=10.5565/rev/athenea.2148 |s2cid=239814830 }}