Jonatan Giráldez
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Giráldez with the Washington Spirit in 2024 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Jonatan Giráldez Costas | ||
| Date of birth | 27 November 1991 | ||
| Place of birth | Vigo, Galicia, Spain | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Washington Spirit (head coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| Matamá | |||
| Sárdoma | |||
| Coruxo | |||
| Areosa | |||
| Managerial career | |||
| Catalonia men U12 | |||
| Catalonia women U16 (assistant) | |||
| Catalonia women U18 (assistant) | |||
| 2019–2021 | Barcelona Femení (assistant) | ||
| 2021–2024 | Barcelona Femení | ||
| 2024– | Washington Spirit | ||
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Jonatan Giráldez Costas (born 27 November 1991) is a Spanish football coach who is the current head coach of National Women's Soccer League team Washington Spirit. He will become the head coach of OL Lyonnes in time for the start of the 2025-26 Première Ligue.
Prior to joining the Spirit in 2024 he spent his entire career, including work in sports analytics, in Catalonia. Initially working in youth football, he joined FC Barcelona Femení as an assistant coach in 2019; he was promoted to head coach in July 2021, leading Barcelona to a domestic treble in the 2021–22 season, a treble including the Champions League in the 2022–23 season, and a continental quadruple in the 2023–24 season. Taking 10 of the 12 available trophies in his time as head coach, Giráldez' Barcelona Femení was considered dynastic.