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| name = Maymol Rocky<br />
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| fullname = Maymol Nedugadan Rocky<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age |df=y|1984|5|19}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Angamaly]],<ref name="gsa" /> [[Kerala]], India<br />
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| position = Right Back<br />
| clubs1 = <br />
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| nationalyears1 = 2001–2007<br />
| nationalteam1 = [[India women's national football team|India]]<br />
| nationalcaps1 = <br />
| nationalgoals1 = <br />
| manageryears1 = 2017<br />
| managerclubs1 = [[India women's national football team|India Women]] (assistant)<br />
| manageryears2 = 2017–2021<br />
| managerclubs2 = [[India women's national football team|India Women]]<br />
| manageryears3 = 2023–<br />
| managerclubs3 = [[India women's national under-20 football team|India U20 (women)]]<br />
| manageryears4 = 2023–<br />
| managerclubs4 = [[India women's national football team|India Women]] (assistant)<br />
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'''Maymol Rocky''' (born 19 May 1984) is an Indian [[association football|football]] manager and former footballer<ref name="gsa" >{{Cite web |url=https://globalsportsarchive.com/people/soccer/maymol-rocky/136741/ |title=Maymol Rocky |website=Global Sports Archive |accessdate=19 February 2022 }}</ref> and currently the head coach of the [[India women's national under-20 football team|India women's under-20 football team]]. She was the first female coach to be appointed the head coach of [[India women's national football team]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scroll.in/field/844992/newly-appointed-indian-womens-football-coach-maymol-rocky-wants-more-games-for-her-players|title = Newly appointed Indian women's football coach Maymol Rocky wants more games for her players}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Maymol started her sports career in Athletics. She also developed a love for football, and in 2000 represented Goa in the National Championships.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.heraldgoa.in/Sports/Goas-Maymol-is-the-Rocky-of-Female-soccer-/117921.html|title=Goa's Maymol is the Rocky of Female soccer|work=oHeraldo|access-date=2018-11-12|language=en}}</ref> The next year, Maymol made her International debut for the Indian Women's Senior Team as a right back.<ref name="dnaindia.com">{{Cite news|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/sports/report-indian-women-s-football-coach-maymol-rocky-breaking-glass-ceiling-one-at-a-time-2522228|title=Indian women's football coach Maymol Rocky: Breaking glass ceiling one at a time|date=2017-08-08|work=dna|access-date=2018-11-12|language=en-US}}</ref> Her first international tournament was [[2001 AFC Women's Championship|Asian Football Confederation Women's Championship 2001]] held in Chinese Taipei when she was only 17 years. Maymol continued playing till 2012.<br />
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As a coach, Maymol and an AFC ‘A’ Coaching Certificate and is also an instructor for the AIFF ‘D’ License Instructors Course. Before, being appointed as the head coach of the Indian Senior Women's National Team, the All India Football Federation had tasked Maymol with the role of coaching the junior teams from 2012, after which she graduated to the senior ranks as an assistant coach.<ref name="dnaindia.com"/><br />
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Maymol works with the Sports Authority of Goa as a football coach, when she is not with the Indian Teams on coaching duty.<br />
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Her first assignment as head coach of the Indian women's team was the 2018 [[L'Alcúdia International Football Tournament|COTIF Tournament]]. On 19 July 2021, Maymol resigned from the post of Indian Women's head coach citing personal reasons.<ref>{{Cite web|date=20 July 2021|title=Foreign coach likely for women's team as Maymol quits|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/foreign-coach-likely-for-womens-team-as-maymol-quits/articleshow/84565989.cms|website=[[The Times Of India]]|access-date=20 July 2021}}</ref><br />
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In January 2023, she was appointed the head coach of the [[India women's national under-20 football team|India women's under-20 football team]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Indian U-20 women's team to train in Chennai |url=https://thebridge.in/football/indian-u20-womens-team-train-chennai-38498 |website=The Bridge |date=6 January 2023 }}</ref><br />
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==Honours==<br />
===Manager===<br />
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'''India Women'''<br />
*[[SAFF Women's Championship]]: [[2019 SAFF Women's Championship|2019]]<br />
*[[Football at the South Asian Games|South Asian Games]] Gold medal: [[Football at the 2019 South Asian Games – Women's tournament|2019]]<br />
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[[Category:Footballers from Kerala]]<br />
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[[Category:India women's international footballers]]<br />
[[Category:1984 births]]<br />
[[Category:Indian football managers]]<br />
[[Category:Indian football coaches]]<br />
[[Category:Women's association football fullbacks]]<br />
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