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Manuela Lareo
	Lareo in 2018
Personal information
Full name	Manuela Lareo Polanco
Date of birth	29 May 1992 (age 32)
Place of birth	Vitoria, Spain
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s)	Left attacking midfielder, forward
Team information
Current team	Dominican Republic Women (technical assistant)
Youth career
2006–2010	Aurrerá Vitoria
Senior career*
Years	Team
2010–2014	Athletic Bilbao
2014–2015	Valencia
2015–2021	Real Sociedad
2021–2022	Espanyol
International career‡
2010	Spain U19
2021–2022	Dominican Republic
2015–2017	Basque Country
Managerial career
	Dominican Republic Women (technical assistant)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 June 2021.; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 7 July 2021.

Manuela “Manu” Lareo Polanco (born 29 May 1992) is a football manager and former player who played as a left attacking midfielder. Born in Spain to a Dominican mother, she capped for the Dominican Republic women's national team, which she is the current technical assistant.

Early life

Lareo was born in Vitoria-Gasteiz to a Spanish father and a Dominican mother.^[2]

Lareo represented Spain at the 2010 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship.^[3] In December 2015, she played for the Basque Country in a 1–1 draw with Catalonia at Mini Estadi.^[4] On 30 June 2021, she was called up by the Dominican Republic.^[5]

^ Manuela Lareo at Soccerway. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
^ Melero, Germán (25 October 2019). ""Estoy convencida de que podemos ganarles"" [I am convinced that we can beat them.]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 September 2020.
^ Guide of the tournament in UEFA's website: Spanish squad in p.73
^ "CATALUNYA 1 - 1 EUSKAL SELEKZIOA" (in Basque). Basque Football Federation. 26 December 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
^ "22 guerreras fueron llamadas para enfrentar a Nicaragua y Panamá". Dominican Republic Football Federation (in Spanish). 30 June 2021. Retrieved 2 July 2021.