Eva Carneiro

Dr Eva Carneiro

Carneiro (with red bag) attends injured Chelsea player Kurt Zouma
Born 1973
Gibraltar
Education MSc
Alma mater Nottingham University
Australasian College of Sports Physicians
Queen Mary University of London

Eva Carneiro (born 1973[1]) is a doctor and the medic for the Chelsea football team and their assistant medical director.

Carneiro was born in Gibraltar to a Spanish father and an English mother. She studied medicine at Nottingham University, spent two years at the Australasian College of Sports Physicians in Melbourne and completed her MSc in Sport and Exercise at Queen Mary University of London.

She worked for West Ham United completing her thesis after which Carneiro was employed by the Public Health department at Islington Primary Care Trust before being appointed to the UK Sports and Medicine Specialist training program with the Olympic Medical Institute preparing British athletes for the 2008 Olympic games.[2][3] [4] She also worked with the England women's football team.[2][3] She joined Chelsea in 2009 and in 2011 she was appointed by manager André Villas-Boas to work with the first team having previously worked with their reserve team squad.[2][5][6] After his dismissal she continued to work for Chelsea under the managerships of Roberto Di Matteo, Rafael Benítez and José Mourinho.[7]

In the 2014-15 season, Carneiro was subjected to sexist chants by Manchester United, Arsenal and Manchester City supporters.[3][8][9] The Football Association's Heather Rabbatts, from their Inclusion and Advisory Board, called on supporters to report sexism within the game with the FA vowing to act against sexist chanting.[10] Chelsea football club called for an end to sexist chanting by fans.[3] Prompted by the abuse aimed at Carneiro, UK Sports Minister, Helen Grant, demanded that sport do more to eradicate “the scourge of bigotry and discrimination".[11] Journalist Alex Clark of "The Guardian" quoted the abuse aimed at Carneiro as a reason to eradicate sexism from both within football and society in general.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Dokter Eva Carneiro Jadi Korban Pelecehan Suporter MU dan City" (in Indonesian). Sport.detik.com. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "AVB got one thing right at Chelsea". www.90min.com. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Chelsea warn fans over Eva Carneiro ‘sexist’ chants". www.footballexpressnews.com. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "Chelsea FC: Who's That Girl? It's Eva Carneiro Of Course". Bleacherreport.com. 22 June 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "Other managerial staff". www.chelseafc.com. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "Eva Carneiro joins the Chelsea bench". www.football.co.uk. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  7. ↑ "Who is Chelsea doctor Eva Carneiro?". The Telegraph. 6 March 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  8. ↑ Gibson, Owen (5 March 2015). "Campaign against sexism in football focuses on abuse of Chelsea doctor". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  9. ↑ Gibson, Owen (5 March 2015). "Sexist chanting at Chelsea’s Eva Carneiro cannot be swept under the carpet". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  10. ↑ "Fa vow to act after Chelsea doctor Eva Carmeiro is victim of sexist abuse". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  11. ↑ "Exclusive: Sports Minister determined to tackle 'the scourge of bigotry and discrimination'". Sport.bt.com. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  12. ↑ Clark,Alex (8 March 2015). "Let’s show the red card to sexism in football – and society". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 March 2015.