Ana Cate

Ana Victoria Cate Aguilar (born 5 August 1991) is an American-born Nicaraguan former footballer who played as a midfielder. She was a member of the Nicaragua women's national team and was the first Nicaraguan woman to play professionally in Europe. Her mother is Nicaraguan and her father is American.[3]

Ana Cate
Personal information
Full name Ana Victoria Cate Aguilar[1]
Date of birth (1991-08-05) 5 August 1991
Place of birth Florida, United States
Height 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)[2]
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
Joe E. Newsome High School
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009–2012 Auburn Tigers 77 (15)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014 FH 17 (4)
2015–2018 Stjarnan 49 (12)
2019 HK/Víkingur 1 (0)
2020 KR 5 (0)
International career‡
2010–2017 Nicaragua 10 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 26 December 2022
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 26 December 2022
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Cate and the second or maternal family name is Aguilar.

Playing career

Ana grew up in FishHawk, Florida, playing high school soccer for Joe E. Newsome High School in Lithia,[4] before attending Auburn University. From 2013 to 2014, she played for Durham University[5] where she was the team's Most Valuable Player during the 2014 season. In 2014, she became the first woman from Nicaragua to play professionally in Europe, when she signed with FH Hafnarfjörður of the Icelandic First Division, scoring four (4) goals and 10 assists in 17 of the 18 games she played in the season. She started in 16 games. In 2015, she played with Stjarnan of the Icelandic First Division, starting in two games. She became the first Nicaraguan to score in,[6] and the first Nicaraguan to win a pre-season title in a European first-division league.[7]

She retired from playing following the 2020 season.[8]

National team career

In 2013, Cate scored two (2) goals against Guatemala at the X Central American Sports Games in Costa Rica for Nicaragua's first silver medal in this discipline.

By 2014, she was part of the Nicaragua national team at the XXII Central American and Caribbean Games held in Veracruz, Mexico. During the qualifying phase she was declared the Man of the Match in Nicaragua's 1-0 win over the Dominican Republic.

Coaching career

Cate served as the strength trainer of Stjarnan from 2017 to 2018 for HK/Víkingur in 2019. In November 2022, she was hired as a strength trainer for Breiðablik.[8]

Personal life

In 2018, Cate joined Soccer Without Borders Nicaragua, an organization that promotes gender equality. She is also a member of Common Goal, an organization through which professional footballers donate a portion of their salary to global social change programs.[9]

References
  1. Ana Cate at Soccerway. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  2. "Ana Cate - Soccer". Auburn University Athletics. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  3. Sánchez, Alejandro (17 November 2017). "Sin Ana Cate en los JDC". El Nuevo Diario. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  4. Hobbs, Renee (November 2, 2017). "Newsome High Graduate Makes It In The Professional Soccer World". Osprey Observer. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  5. "Cate, el alma del equipo nica de futbol". October 2015.
  6. "Nica Futb Femenino".
  7. "Ana Cate campeona de Pre-Temporada con Stjarnan". Nica Women's Soccer. 2 May 2015. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  8. Brynjar Ingi Erluson (18 November 2022). "Ana Cate í þjálfarateymi Breiðabliks". Fótbolti.net (in Icelandic). Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  9. "Common Goal Players Ana Cate and Giorgio Chiellini Join Soccer Without". 27 April 2018.


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