Jorge Vilda’s contract with the Spanish national women’s team: how many years does he have left, what is his salary and possible dismissal after the ‘Rubiales case’

It is difficult for Jorge Vilda to continue to lead the Spanish women’s national team, even when Luis Rubiales offered him the extension of his contract last Friday at the extraordinary general meeting in Las Rozas. A lot has changed since then and the La Roja coach could make his days count on the world champion’s bench.

After a difficult year, which included the dismissal of fifteen football players from the national team (three were later rejoined), Vilda managed to continue to lead the national team and led – from her place – one of the greatest achievements in history of Spanish sport: Spain wins the Women’s World Cup for the first time. It was a team effort that culminated on August 20, when a goal from Olga Carmona was enough to beat England in the Championship final played in Australia and New Zealand.

Jorge Vilda’s contract with the Spanish national women’s team: how many years does he have left, what is his salary and possible dismissal after the ‘Rubiales case’

Jorge Vilda has a contract with the Federation until June 2024, so he should be in charge of the Spanish women’s national team for another year. However, the ‘Rubiales Case’ has blown everything up and it is expected that there will be news about the coach’s future in the coming hours.

In the General Assembly in which Luis Rubiales announced that he was still leading the RFEF despite yet another scandal at the head of the Federation, then-acting president Vilda offered a four-year extension. He did it live, in the middle of the extraordinary general meeting, and announced the salary he offered to the coach of the Spanish women’s team: half a million euros.

“Jorge, what an emotion I felt. I think it has been the happiest day of my five years in office, that we are world champions. I have activated the mechanisms for Andreu to start a negotiation with you, so that you have the stay with us for the foreseeable future.” Asking for half a million euros in the next four years, you deserve it. You deserve it, we’ve been through a lot. You are one of the best coaches in the world and in women’s football you are undoubtedly the best,” Rubiales said at the meeting. applauded his speech.

“I want to say something else. There were people who said that Jorge charged half a million. I’m going to say it: 160, 170 thousand euros, I don’t know what Jorge charged. Of course you will no longer be such a sports director,” he continued.

The presidents of the territorial teams seem to be clear that Vilda, who applauded Rubiales’ criticized speech in the General Assembly last Friday, cannot continue to lead the national team. However, his departure is not so easy because his contract has one more year left, while the resigning coaching staff terminated his contract on Thursday, August 31.

Anyway, the issue will be discussed at the meeting that the presidents of the territories will hold on Wednesday, August 30, and it will be necessary to see whether Vilda is ratified by the Board of Directors. There are matches at the end of September and the players have already announced that they will not return as long as I am in the Federation.