The ‘Rubiales case’ leaves Jorge Vilda alone: ​​massive dismissal of the staff of the Spanish national women’s team

Much of Jorge Vilda’s coaching staff announced on Saturday, August 26, that he is resigning from the Spain women’s national team, which helped him win the World Cup title in Australia and New Zealand and beat England less than a week ago. 1-0 in the final. The announcement comes on the same day FIFA officially announced Luis Rubiales’ 90-day provisional suspension.

RUBIALES, COLLECTOR OF SCANDALS

A day after Luis Rubiales was confirmed in office and assured that he would not resign following the scandal sparked by the unauthorized kiss he gave Jenni Hermoso in the Women’s World Cup final, several members of Vida’s coaching staff issued a issued a statement announcing that they are leaving in La Roja, leaving only the Madrid coach.

It should be remembered that Rubiales had offered the extension “for four years” to Vilda in the middle of the Extraordinary General Assembly on Friday, with the RFEF chairman disclosing the salary he was willing to pay the coach. “Jorge, I invite you to stay with us for the next four years and earn half a million euros a year,” said Rubiales.

The ‘Rubiales Case’ leaves Jorge Vilda alone: ​​his coaching staff resigns from the Spanish national team

Montse Tomé, second to Vilda and to whom Rubiales publicly offered women’s sports management on Friday, is the first signatory of the letter. Through her official Twitter account, she herself has been in charge of disseminating the statement.

The signatories reveal that they were forced to sit in the front row to show support for the president, when in reality they were not. Added to this is the inconvenience of attending the above-mentioned meeting on 25 August, which was also a particularly painful event for this technical body, as several female members of the technical staff were forced to stand in the front row, damaging their image and trying to make society and players understand that they shared the positions of the president of the RFEF,” he writes.

The full statement

As a result of the events that took place after the Women’s World Cup Final, part of the Women’s Football Team wishes to make its position public through the following points:

1. The undersigned express their strongest and most emphatic condemnation of the behavior of the President of the Spanish Football Federation, Luis Manuel Rubiales Béjar, towards the player of the National Women’s Team, Jennifer Hermoso.

2. After the Extraordinary General Assembly of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, which took place on August 25, 2023, in which the president of the RFEF did not present his resignation and in which he offered a story that does not reflect in any way the feelings of the aforementioned player , who has expressly stated that he feels “victim of aggression”, this part of the Technical Staff supports the player Jennifer Hermoso and endorses the version offered by her. Added to this is the inconvenience of attending the above meeting on August 25, which also saw a particularly painful event for this technical body, as several female members of the technical staff were forced to wear themselves in the front row, damaging its image and trying to make society and players understand that they shared the positions of the president of the RFEF.

3. For all these reasons, in light of the unacceptable attitudes and statements made by the top leader of the RFEF, the undersigned have taken the decision to make their positions available to the RFEF.

4. This part of the Technical Team expresses its support for the statement published by the players of the Women’s National Football Team, with reference to said actions and statements made by the President of the RFEF, and more specifically to the public statements made by the player Jenni Hermoso.

5. The undersigned wish to end this statement by accepting the part of the responsibility that rests upon us with regard to the restructuring and professionalization of the Absolute Women’s National Team, a task for which we have always worked with the utmost motivation and professionalism.

Montse Tomé Vázquez (assistant technical assistant of the women’s football team).

Javier Lerga Garayoa (Women’s Soccer Team Assistant Technical Assistant)

Eugenio Gonzalo Martín (assistant technical assistant women’s football team and U17 and U16 women’s football coach).

Blanca Romero Moraleda (physical trainer of the women’s football team).

Carlos Sánchez García (Goalkeeping coach of the women’s national football team).

Rubén Jiménez Gómez (analyst technician for the women’s soccer team)

Sonia Bermúdez Tribano (U19-U20 women’s soccer coach)

Javier Velázquez Díaz (physical trainer of women’s national football teams).

Javier Egido Saz (Technical Analyst for Women’s National Soccer Teams).

Ander Ruíz Mitxelena (Goalkeeping coach for women’s national football teams).

Elena Fernández Castaño (Goalkeeping Coach for Women’s National Football Teams).