Vera Pauw

Vera Pauw ( born January 18, 1963 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch football coach and former football player. From 2004 to 2010 she coached the Dutch national team of women.

Pauw played as a defender for Dutch clubs SV Brederode and VV Vreeswijk before they played the first Dutch CF at Modena in Italy as a professional. She later returned to the homeland and played for Puck Deventer and the SV Saestum.

She is the first Dutch woman who was the coaching license for professional football teams and initiated in 2007, the first division of women.

Following her playing career, she took over in 1998, the Scottish women's team, which she supervised six years. From 2004, she coached the Dutch selection with which they managed to qualify for the 2009 European Championship in Finland and surprisingly came there to the semifinals. In March 2010, she said after differences with the association's management of her resignation as coach Bond and was replaced in November 2010 by Roger Reijners. After they had been subsequently worked for women's teams in the Russian Federation as Technical Director, she was appointed in April 2011 to head coach of the Russian women's national team. In this role she later broke only half a year after the French success coach Farid Benstiti.