The players denounced his management. Spain women’s coach Jorge Vilda has been sacked after the Rubiales scandal, the Royal Spanish Football Federation announced on Tuesday (September 5th).
The RFEF said in a statement “to separate from Jorge Vilda as sporting director and coach of the national women’s team”, a dismissal presented as “one of the first restructuring measures” of the bodies of Spanish football immersed in the chaos by Rubiales’ forced kiss to player Jennifer Hermoso after Spain’s world title on August 20.
Former national team captain Veronica Boquete denounced the behavior of the coach in an interview with AFP-TV.
“It’s the straw that broke the camel’s back, because to come to this, in front of the eyes of the whole world, it means that, when there are no cameras, when there is no one other, when it’s not the final of a World Cup, a lot of other things happen, which we normalize and let pass when it shouldn’t be the case, “says the player 36, who plays in Italy at Fiorentina.
“Pretty macho mentality”
Captain of the selection, she was dismissed in 2017 for having denounced the supervision and the incompetence, according to her, of the coach Jorge Vilda, who has just won the World Cup with Spain despite the tensions between him and his players.
“In the national team, says Boquete, if you complained and wanted to improve things, the one who was in charge did not listen to you and very often, you paid the consequences, which were the exclusion of the national team. So it also caused the fear of the consequences,” she added.
Denouncing more broadly the treatment of women in professional football, the striker with 56 caps added: “Almost always, in the world of football, the people who are there are men, and they always have a fairly macho mentality. So it’s a constant war. We need people who work for us [the women] and who want to do it, and not because it is an obligation. »
A few minutes after the world title of La Roja, on August 20 in Sydney, Luis Rubiales kissed on the mouth by surprise the N.10 Jenni Hermoso, causing international indignation. He has since been suspended by Fifa for 90 days, while the Spanish Administrative Court for Sport (TAD) opened disciplinary proceedings against him for “serious misconduct”.
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