Pilar Gazulla
María del Pilar Gazulla Montero is a Spanish jotera and former footballer.
Pilar Gazulla was born in San Martín del Río, Aragon, Spain, on 12 February 1951.[1] Her father, Joaquín Gazulla Navarro, was a famous jota performer known as El Chamalo.[2][3][4] The family moved to Catalonia when Gazulla was six, and she grew up spending time backstage at the Apolo Theatre.[5][6]
Gazulla joined the nascent FC Barcelona women's team in 1970 as a defender, ahead of their inaugural match and 1971–72 season, and remained with the team until 1976.[1][5] Her family was not supportive of her playing football, though her husband's family was, and his grandmother bought Gazulla her first pair of boots.[7][8] Her husband became a delegate of the Barcelona women's team and encouraged Gazulla, from a Spanish-speaking region of Aragon, to become conscious of what it meant to represent Barcelona and Catalonia, especially during the Franco dictatorship.[8] She was known as "Pili Mami" on the squad due to having a child.[1][6]
She continued dancing jota with her father, including performing the renowned Jota de Calanda broadcast by TVE in 1974.[4][9] In her hometown there is an ethnographic museum honouring her work in jota.[10]
References
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- ^ Diaz, Marcos (2023-06-05). "La jota, un símbolo de Aragón en el mundo". Go Aragón (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-04-27.
- ^ a b "La Jota". Ayuntamiento de Calanda (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 April 2025.
- ^ a b "Pilar Gazulla: De la Jota a pionera del fútbol femenino". CARTV (in European Spanish). 2025-04-19. Retrieved 2025-04-27.
- ^ a b Carreras Asensio, José María (2015). "Pilar Gazulla, una vida dedicada a la jota". Cuadernos del Baile de San Roque: revista de etnología (28): 99–104. ISSN 1136-8209.
- ^ "Pilar Gazulla, pionera al FC Barcelona: "Hem aguantat parides masclistes una darrere l'altre"". RadioIlla Notícies Formentera (in Catalan). 2023-08-24. Retrieved 2025-04-28.
- ^ a b "Tocades pel Barça: Pilar Gazulla". www.fcbarcelona.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 2025-04-28.
- ^ "Jotas de aquí y de allá". Raíces. Episode 11. 26 November 1974. TVE.
- ^ Aragón, Heraldo de (2017-11-26). "San Martín del Río: el que vino, se quedó". heraldo.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-04-28.