The players of the Spanish national team came together to request the resignation of national coach Jorge Vilda. The hard core of the team, led by the captains – Irene Paredes, Patri Guijarro, Jenni Hermoso and Alexia Putellas (out due to injury) – believe that the current national team manager has not increased the value of the players and called for his departure , which justifies the will. someone who can “maximize the performance of a generation that does not see club success reflected in the national team”.
According to them, a point of stagnation has also been reached, so that eighth place in the FIFA ranking does not reach the level of the best teams (England, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Canada or the USA).
The quarter-finals of the 2021 World Cup and the round of 16 of European Championship 2022 are not enough for so much individual talent. the fault is the lack of training of the technical team, with training not adequate and far from the level they are used to in the respective clubs. The management of the group was also questioned. The protagonists even speak of a “difference in treatment between starters and substitutes that discourages the group and is responsible for some injuries from minute overload”.
It is not a unanimous position, but it is one of the majority and it was communicated by telephone on Monday to the President of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, Jorge Rubiales, and then to Jorge Vilda himself, as the squad concentrated to start qualifying for to give the 2023 World Cup – there are matches with Hungary (September 2) and Ukraine (September 6). After listening to the president backing the coach, they heard the coach say he plans to remain in the position until at least 2024 — the validity of the contract, which has two option years left.
The revolt in the women’s locker room sparked an emergency meeting between the federation vice president, with the women’s football portfolio, and the coach, after Rubiales had no intention of firing the coach. “There is no question. Jorge is now the coach and he will be at the World Cup next summer. Jorge can even come out of this situation strengthened. And armored. It is not the players who choose the coach, but the president of the RFEF “, the federation reacted, passing on the message that it will not respond to the petition of the Spanish internationals.
Which they say is still strange and contradictory. While it’s unusual to see athletes requesting the coach’s departure, there are precedents in Spain that make the federation leader look bad in the photo. At the end of the 2020-21 season, the Barcelona players called for the resignation of Lluís Cortés, despite having won the Championship, the Queen’s Cup and the Champions League, as they believed that the relationship with the 34 -year-old coach had suffered too much tension and it would be impossible to keep winning with him. Faced with this situation and knowing the reasons he cited, Rubiales called the Catalan president to mediate for the Catalan players. Now the federation leader faces an uprising at the national resort.
Spain has a 100% professional championship, with the winner of the Champions League Barcelona and the best player in Europe and the world is Spain’s Alexia Putellas (Barcelona), who was seriously injured while training with the national team in July during the European Championship. Championship. . A few days ago, the under-20 team became world champions.
Source: DN
