While there is still no conflict Jorge Vilda With the ’15’ of the Spanish team, Damaris Egurrola (Orlando, 1999) He was the first and definitively to abandon Red. He was born in the United States to a Basque father—he founded a youth academy in Spain, became known at the Athletic, and was about to sign for Barça before moving to Everton and then Lyon—and a Dutch mother. Nationality when he has to choose which team to play on absolute level.
However, he had previously selected Spain’s under-teams, where he was the European under-19 champion in 2017 and the under-17 world runner-up in 2018. Aitana Bonmati, patriarch pebble And Battle Him, among others. I was hoping to get to the top. Waiting for the call vilda long time and never taken for an official match. Of course, he made his debut at the age of 19 in a friendly match against Cameroon. He played less than ten minutes.
Just before he announced to the public that he had decided on the Dutch team, Jorge Vilda He reassured at a press conference that “we tried to call him twice” and “we tried to contact him on the phone”. In ‘El Confidencial’ he openly replied: “This is not true. I was last called up for these friendlies before the 2019 World Cup and no further attempts were made to call the Spain national team. No one has contacted me.”
He continued: “I understand that a coach has the right to choose his players, but that doesn’t give him the right to lie. And since I want to play in European and World Cups like every player, I couldn’t keep waiting for a call from the National Team. Seeing that they didn’t give me that many opportunities in Spain, I decided to change my team,” he said. And he ended his words by saying: “I last spoke to him for a meeting with under-23s, in this meeting, Covid ravaged our team two weeks before we took PSG. He didn’t understand when I made my decision not to go due to Covid. We had just come out of 15 positive quarantine… Hired a few lawyers. He threatened to go against me and the club. He had no problem doing that.”
Fate, whimsical, demanded it Jorge Vilda And Damaris Egurrola face to face again. This time on the pitch and on the biggest stage: the World Cup. The Netherlands and Spain are vying for the semi-final ticket this Friday, with a noticeable loss. Danielle Van de Donk Due to the accumulation of yellow cards, everything indicates that the Basque will make a start.