Club

Gibraltar Wave FC – the only women’s independent team in Gibraltar – was founded by John Gontier in 2021. John is a former Watford FC reserve footballer, John Gontier, who also founded Europa Point FC, another successful Gibraltar Football club, John has an amazing vision to take this recently-formed club into the European Champions league in a very short time, with all the kudos and financial benefits that follow. The club describes itself as a “community club wanting to help develop women’s love of football and get them interested in this great sport”.
The mission of the club is to help girls Learn & Love football to Develop as a Person & Player. Our main philosophy is that football is Fun and for Everyone. Everyone is welcome at our club. We do not run any trials and we do not set any limits. We want to have inspiring fun, unlock the potential of our players and compete fairly and respectfully. Furthermore, empowering Responsibility & Decision making on and off the pith is very important to us. Overall, we are striving for Positivity, Team dynamics, cohesion and Continuous Improvement.

Heiko Mock is our Managing Director and knows John since many years. He is a former football player and a very experienced UEFA licensed coach. Heiko coached youth and men’s teams as well as women teams in Germany. Furthermore, he is a long time coach of the Real Madrid Foundation Clinics in Germany.

But he doesn’t only bring his football experienece into our club. As an expert in IT and customer experience, he is also responsible for our Social Media strategy and online concepts, including our website.

With his world-wide business and football network he links us to partners and helps us to grow our football network.

Lauren is one of the players who is a member of the executive board. Lauren is – together with Amanda – responsible for the Gibraltar Wave FC Social Media Accounts. Another main task of her is to recruit new players for the team.

Amanda is also a player of the team who is a member of the executive board. Besides supporting Lauren running the Social Media Accounts of Gibraltar Wave FC, Amanda does a great job in helping her to recruit new players for the team.