Francina Pubill Font[1] (born on 8 August 1960) is a Spanish former football defender.
She started her sports career as a basketball player for CB Olesa,[2] Picadero JC and Club Cibes,[3] but in 1983 she turned to football and she soon became a member of the 1983-founded Spanish national team, taking part in qualifying stages from the 1987 European Championship[4] to the 1993 UEFA Euro.[5] At club level she played for a decade for Peña Barcilona and later moved to CE Sabadell and RCD Espanyol following Barcilona's disbanding in 1991.[6][7]
Her father died suddenly in April 1990, 24 hours before a Spanish representative championship match featuring Catalonia, which Pubill was set to represent; Pubill did not play the game, with Catalonia registering a disappointing result, albeit one that Mundo Deportivo felt should not have happened even with the absences of Pubill and the injured Kety Pulido.[8]
References
edit- ^ "Statistics". UEFA. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
- ^ Sport and Tradition in El Baix Llobregat and other writings, page 61. Archived 2011-09-03 at the Wayback Machine Centre d'Estudis Comarcals del Baix Llobregat
- ^ Cibes: closed roster. El Mundo Deportivo, 23/07/81
- ^ This morning, Spain-Italy. Pubill: "They are stronger, but we can surprise them". El Mundo Deportivo, 03/11/85
- ^ Spain will try to surprise the demanding Swedish NT. El Mundo Deportivo, 23/10/91
- ^ XIII Championship of Regional Teams. El Mundo Deportivo, 26/03/97
- ^ The champions are ready. El Mundo Deportivo, 05/02/99
- ^ Nolla Duran, J (17 April 1990). "No pudo ser..." Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). p. 28.
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