Buda Bautista

Leticia Callejas Bautista more known as Buda Bautista is a former Philippine international footballer and is the head coach of the Philippine women's national football team.

Playing career

Bautista along with Miriam Merlin and Let Dimzon played with the Philippine women's national football team of the 1980s coached by Orlando Plagata.
Bautista was part of the national squad that participated at the 2003 [FIFA Women's World Cup qualification|2003 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifiers]

Bautista was named as head coach of the Philippines U19 for the 2013 [AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification].

Bautista was appointed as the head coach of the Philippine women's national football team in April 2015 becoming the first woman to lead the women's senior national team of the Philippines.
Bautista mentored the national squad which secured 2018 [AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification|qualification] for the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup. She was succeeded by Marnelli Dimzon who took over her position by July 2017.
She was shortlisted for the 2017 AFC Women's Coach Of The Year Award along with Gao Hong of China and Asako Takakura of Japan.
Bautista returns as the head coach of the Philippine women's national team by June 2018 and guided the team in the 2018 AFF Women's Championship. Like in her first national team stint, she was again succeeded by Marnelli Dimzon in August 2018.