Fifteen international players announced their resignation from the national women’s team to the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) on Thursday for refusing to fire the current coach, Jorge Vilda.
The RFEF itself said in a statement that it had received 15 emails throughout the day from 15 women’s team players, all using the same wording, stating that they would be removed from the roster if the current situation affected your ” affect your emotional state and your health” is not reversed.
“The RFEF will not allow players to question the continuity of the national coach and his technical team, as such a decision is not within its purview”The union says in its statement, in response to the position footballers took against trainer Jorge Vilda, son of Angel Vilda, the former physical trainer of Benfica when Juup Heynckes passed through Luz.
The RFEF reinforces that: “will not accept any kind of pressure from any player to take action in the field of sports” is that “this kind of maneuver is not a good example in terms of defending the values of football and sport”.
“Under current Spanish law, failure to appear for a call-up from the national team is classified as a very serious offense and can lead to penalties of two to five years’ suspension”can also be read in the text published by the RFEF.
Furthermore, the Spanish federation says that, contrary to the position of the players concerned, it will not take any radical positions or put pressure on them by simply not calling them up for the selection.
“The Federation does not call up football players who do not want to wear the Spanish jersey. We will only call up those who are committed to the national team, even if we have to play with young players.”reports the RFEF.
According to her, the issue at stake is “extended the sporting component to a matter of dignity”given the selection something non-negotiable and that this situation is unprecedented in the history of football, male or female, in Spain or in the rest of the world”.
For the RFEF, the present and future of Spanish football in Spain lies in the “potential of the youth categories and of the players who this summer were crowned as Under-20 World Champions, Under-19 European Champion and Under-17 European Runners”.
However, he leaves a ‘window’ open for his return to the national team: “The players who have resigned from the national team today can only come back in the future if they admit their mistake and apologize.”
Source: DN
