Montse Tomé postpones the list for the Nations League, with 39 footballers signing a statement announcing that they will not play for the national team.
Montse Tomé, who replaced Jorge Vilda on the bench of the Spanish national women’s team after the scandal of the ‘Rubiales Case’, must provide the list of footballers called up for the September matches in Sweden and Switzerland, corresponding to the UEFA Nations League , a tournament qualifier for the Olympic Games. Some matches that the women’s team has never played before.
Tomé will do this during her presentation as a new coach (the first woman to lead a Spanish national team) and in the middle of a historic sit-in, where many players have warned the Federation that they will not accept the coach’s call because she considers the changes in the team insufficient, the entity that governs Spanish football. In fact, they have already published an official statement announcing that they remain steadfast in their position and that they demand structural changes.
Last Friday, a few minutes after Montse Tomé made public the list of those called up for the matches of the Spanish national team for the matches with Sweden and Switzerland in the UEFA Nations League, 39 Spanish footballers confirmed through a statement their position that they are not called with ‘la Roja’.
However, two champion players in Australia-New Zealand have distanced themselves from the rest and not signed the declaration. They are Athenea and Claudia Zornoza. What was unanimous now seems not to be unanimous. Family councils, sponsorship matters, union matters. Decisions that are difficult to make and that do not simply depend on the will of each international. Hours of calling followed to see if it was true or not.
It is worth remembering that a refusal to go to Spain may have legal consequences. And the sports law in this country forces them to accept the call of the national team. Obviously they know this and will have a strategy to counter the potential punishment.
Montse Tomé’s call-up list for the Spanish national women’s team for the September 2023 matches against Sweden and Switzerland in the Nations League: when will it be offered and which players will go
On August 20, they completed an unforgettable World Cup by becoming champions in Australia and New Zealand. They are the queens of the planet, but they are also demanding. After Rubiales’ non-consensual kiss with Jenni Hermoso, but before Jorge Vilda’s dismissal and Luis Rubiales’ resignation, they had all given up playing for Spain. And other footballers who had not played in the World Cup joined this mass dismissal, with some of ‘the 15’ joining the protest measure.
In that sense, Montse Tomé must provide a list for the matches on September 22 and 26, against Sweden and Switzerland respectively. And they will do so, shrouded in controversy and sailing in a sea of uncertainties, but with one certainty: the world champions will not agree to defend the Spanish shirt.
The call was due to be announced on Friday, September 15 around 4:00 PM, but had to be postponed and will be communicated when all issues regarding the mass resignation of the players have been resolved. It is not excluded that it could even leave next Monday, according to Pablo Parra on “Radio Marca”.
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Source: Goal