Navarro was Santiago Morning’s head coach until last year, when she decided to take on a more administrative role as the club’s assistant director of women’s football. Yet she still shows up to every training session and on matchday.
“The national team has achieved their success with the players’ clubs,” Navarro told BBC Sport from the club’s training ground, which is overlooked by the snow-covered Andes mountains.
“This is the most fundamental thing with this national team, the day-to-day work they do with the clubs.
“That’s 80% of the job – and the last 20% is done with the national team.”
In February 2019, Navarro and Santiago Morning made history and changed the standard of domestic women’s football in Chile after introducing the first professional contracts.
“When someone wins a title and gets results, the directors always ask you want you want,” said the 48-year-old, recalling her side’s build-up in 2018 to what would become their first championship success.
“I reached five finals before that 2018 final and lost them all, but I felt different this time. When I was drinking my coffee in the morning I was thinking ‘if we win, what am I going to ask for?’ If the men get to ask for things, so will I.”
While the players were celebrating their 3-2 victory over Palestino at the Estadio Nacional, Navarro started picking up rubbish on the pitch and the club president, Miguel Nasur, helped her.
In the midst of being showered with confetti and champagne, Nasur asked Navarro what she wanted now she had won.
“I told him I wanted to contract four Chilean footballers as the first professional women’s footballers in the country and I wanted to start this project,” she said.
Three months later, Maria Francisca Mardones, Daniela Pardo, Marcela Perez and Nicole Farje duly landed landmark deals.