Leticia Callejas Bautista more known as Buda Bautista is a former Philippine international footballer and is the head coach of the Philippine women's national football team.

Playing career

Bautista was part of the national squad that participated at the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifiers

Coaching career

Philippines U-19

Bautista was named as head coach of the Philippines U19 (women's) for the

2013 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification The 2013 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification was a women's under-19 football competition which decided final participating team of the 2013 AFC U-19 Women's Championship. Only one team qualified to play in the final tournament, including ...

Philippines

Bautista was appointed as the head coach of the Philippine women's national football team in April 2015 becoming the first woman to lead the women's senior national team of the Philippines. Bautista mentored the national squad which secured qualification for the

2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup The 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup was the 19th edition of the AFC Women's Asian Cup, the quadrennial international football tournament in Asia competed by the women's national teams in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). It was originally schedul ...

. She was succeeded by

Marnelli Dimzon Marnelli "Let" Salvador Dimzon (born November 22, 1979) is a Filipina football coach and former player. She is currently the head coach of Kaya Women's. She is also an assistant coach of the Philippine women's national team and had served as ...

who took over her position by July 2017. She was shortlisted for the 2017 AFC Women's Coach Of The Year Award along with Gao Hong of China and Asako Takakura of Japan. Bautista returns as the head coach of the Philippine women's national team by June 2018 and guided the team in the

2018 AFF Women's Championship The 2018 AFF Women's Championship was the tenth edition of the AFF Women's Championship, an international women's football tournament organised by the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF). The tournament was hosted by Indonesia from 30 June to 13 July ...

. Like in her first national team stint, she was again succeeded by

in August 2018.

Statistics

Managerial

References

1973 births Living people Filipino women's footballers Philippines women's international footballers Female association football managers Philippines women's national football team managers Filipino football head coaches Women's association football defenders People from San Juan, Metro Manila Footballers from Metro Manila {{Philippines-women-footy-bio-stub