It is the turn of the defendants. Former coach Jorge Vilda may defend himself today from the accusations of threats and coercion to the football player Jenni already already her surroundings. Last week, the footballer’s brother declared about the conversation he had with Vilda on the plane and the threats he received from the coach.
The then coach, He remembered, came “in a very affable tone” and asked “how was it”. “We started talking about the celebration, putting my sister on the rise, we were talking solely and exclusively about football, in a tone almost of ball and suddenly the subject of the kiss solved.” “Have you seen the one that has been bundled with the kiss?” Asked Nurs giving “. “There are his daughters crying and with a tantrum you don’t see and he is with a concern because he thinks his position can be in danger.”
Then, he recalled, he confessed that he sent him “El Presi” to see if he could “convince his sister so that in Doha he comes out with the president in a joint video explaining that the action of the kiss had been a consented act of love and of friendship and that felt good, subtracting all importance. “
Beautiful replied if “it seemed good that his sister went out to give explanations about something he had not done.” “It’s the best for everyone,” says Vilda. His story ended with a clear threat: “He released me was that we took into account the personal and professional consequences that this could have for my sister.”he sentenced.
Today he will have the opportunity to defend himself but before his testimony he has launched an authentic bomb that can dynamite a costume already quite divided. In yesterday’s session – in which Montse took – the current coach of the Morocco Women’s Team of Henares. And he did it by leaving a forceful statement that can increase the gap in the women’s team: “I appreciate the messages of support that some players have sent me.” These have been the only words of Vilda, since the question of who were those players who had supported him have preferred not to answer.
It fits Remember that their relationship with most players was never too good and that their figure is key in divorce between the selection and the RFEF.
In the documentary “#Seacabó: Diario de las Champions”, Laia Codina confesses the real situation that was lived in reference to the “15 rebels”. “It was a broken group. It seemed that we had to win to fuck the others”reveals.
And it is that the mutineers were almost as protagonists as the ones that ended up reigning in women’s world football.
Who were the “15” and what happened in the National Team?
A year before placing its star in the chest – in September 2022 – fifteen players of the Spanish women’s soccer team resigned to play with the national team “while the situation that had been generated in the last concentration with The coach Jorge Vilda. An order to which RFEF reacted bluntly and was inflexible in his position of not “admitting any pressure from any player when adopting sports measures.”
“The RFEF communicates that, throughout today, it has received 15 emails from 15 players from the absolute women’s football team, casually all with the same writing, in which they state that the current situation generated affects them ‘of Important way ‘in its’ emotional state’ and in its’ health ‘and that,’ as long as it does not reversed ‘, they renounce the national team of Spain, ”said the agency in a statement.
Previously, the petition had already occurred by a sector of the internationals of the resignation of Jorge Vilda, Something that was denied by the captains Irene Paredes, Jennifer Hermoso and Patricia Guijarro, although they did recognize that there were “certain internal aspects” that should be “changed.”
Vilda “The Controller”
But The war had only started. If a month before the emails of Barça, Patri Guijarro, Irene Paredes and Alexia Putellas, they already asked their head to the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales and met with Vilda to ask for face to face to face That he resigned from his position, after the federation statement the tension increased. “We throw him out of our ovaries” They came to affirm some of the heavyweight weights, according to the Cope chain.
The players suggested that they did not trust him, that he would not live up to The atmosphere in the costume was very rarely and that a change was necessary before the 2023 World Cup.
But later it would be shown that the differences with the coach went beyond the game. Sources close to several of these players declared to Mundo Deportivo that the main reasons are related to excess control by the coach, sometimes sick and even cataloged “dictatorial.” As confirmed by Jenni Hermoso in the “Planeta Calleja” program, Vilda forced the players to keep the doors of their rooms open until twelve o’clock at night to check that they were there before sleeping, a decision that they considered that they threatened against their intimacy and against their rest.
They also denounced that The coach controlled them when they were going to buy, to the point of checking the bags and their content, and they should even say who they were going to have coffee. Every movement was always subject to strict surveillance that made the players feel disturbed and self -conscious, they say.
However, the Federation did not yield, it kept Vilda and from that same day none of them was summoned. The 15 players in question were: Ainhoa Vicena Ha Site, Patri Guijarro, Sandra Padños, Amaiur Sarriegi, Leila Ouahabi, Lucía García, Mapi León, Ona Batlle, Laia Aleixandri, Claudia Pina, Aitana Bonmatí, Mariona Caldereny, Lola Gallardo, Nerea Eizagirre and Andrea Pereira.
The controversy in reverse
Months later, and seeing the closeness of the World Cup, Part of the mutineers began to reculate. In a surprising change of script, in June 2023, the vast majority of the “rebels” who sent an email to the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) asking not to be summoned until things changed things sent a new mail to the RFEF saying that they were available again and that they were summonable if coach Jorge Vilda wanted it. Some emails in which, according to internal sources, no apologies were collected. A reverse that was hard criticized on social networks and that the Federation only yielded minimally.
There were eight who turned back and warned their availability to play the World Cup, But Vilda only recovered three of the 15: Ona Batlle, Mariona Caldentey and Aitana Bonmatí. The remaining followed the World Cup from Spain. Seven of them, Mapi León, Patri Guijarro, Claudia Pina, Lola Gallardo, Ainhoa Moraza, Nerea Eizagirre and Amaiur Sarriegi stayed out by their own decision and the other five – Lucía García, Laia Aleixandri, Leila Ouahabi, Sandra Paños and Andrea Pereira- after being discarded by The coach for technical issues.
The silence of the “12”
The absolute mutism of the “12” that were left was thunderous throughout the World Cup and the absence of any message after the historical step to the final generated a sour debate in social networks.
If the then president of the Federation, Luis Rubiales with a hard message: “What we have endured has been a lot. That Jorge Vilda is questioned, who is a working man, a world top coach, who has renounced other selections that offered him more money and stayed in Spain. We have stayed with those who have always wanted to be, but also with those who have valued the great work that has been done to grow, and we have forgotten people with resentment that do not add. He has continued working with his people and has ignored those who wanted to destroy. ”
Much has rained since then. The kiss marked a before and after in Spanish football but there are still many wounds to close and The last bomb with Vilda seems to reopen them.