Natalia Leontievna Barbashina ( rus, Наталья Леонидовна Барбашина; born 26 August 1973) is a Russian

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

coach Coach may refer to: Guidance/instruction * Coach (sport), a director of athletes' training and activities * Coaching, the practice of guiding an individual through a process ** Acting coach, a teacher who trains performers Transportation * Co ...

and former player. Her last team was Zvezda Perm, with whom she reached the 2008-09 UEFA Women's Cup

Final Final, Finals or The Final may refer to: *Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which decides a winner for an event ** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of cont ...

. Throughout her career she won nine

Russian women's football championship The Russian Women's Football Championship (russian: Чемпионат России по футболу среди женщин), also known as the Top Division and the Women's Football League, is the highest professional women's football league i ...

s and nine national Cups with

Energiya Voronezh FC Energy Voronezh (Russian: «Энергия» Воронеж) was a women's football club from Voronezh, Russia. The club holds the most championships in Russian, having 5 championships to its name. In 1994 the team won the vice championship be ...

Ryazan VDV Ryazan-VDV (Рязань-ВДВ) is a Russian women's football team from Ryazan. History Founded in 1996, it won two league titles and one cup in the last years of the twentieth century. Ryazan-VDV was the first team to represent Russia in the U ...

, Lada Togliatti, Rossiyanka and Zvezda.

International career

Barbashina joined the

Russia women's national football team The Russia women's national football team represents Russia in international women's football. The team is controlled by the Russian Football Union and affiliated with UEFA. Yuri Krasnozhan replaced Elena Fomina as coach of the team in Decem ...

in 1995. As of 2011, Barbashina was the fifth most capped Russian international player. She played at the

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

and

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

World Cups A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of world champion. The event most associated with the concept i ...

, scoring one goal in each; against

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

and

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

, respectively.

UEFA Women's Euro 2009 The 2009 UEFA Women's Championship, or just Women's Euro 2009, was played in Finland between 23 August and 10 September 2009. The host was appointed on 11 July 2006, in a UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Berlin and the Finnish proposal won over ...

marked her last appearance in an international tournament. She had scored an important goal in the qualification play-off against

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

References

External links

* 1973 births Living people Russian women's footballers Russia women's international footballers FIFA Century Club Russian Women's Football Championship players People from Ussuriysk Sportspeople from Primorsky Krai WFC Rossiyanka players Ryazan-VDV players FC Energy Voronezh players Zvezda 2005 Perm players Russian Women's Football Championship players FC Lada Togliatti (women) players 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players Women's association football midfielders Women's association football forwards {{Russia-women-footy-bio-stub