Jorge Vilda, former Spanish women’s soccer coach, said that his dismissal is “unfair”, that he “did not expect” the dismissal despite the rumors in recent days about his future and revealed that the contract for his renewal for four seasons was “perfected ” after winning the World Cup.
The Spanish coach, dismissed as a result of the controversy generated with Luis Rubiales, president of the RFEF suspended from his duties since last August 26 by the FIFA Disciplinary Committee, had been in office since July 30, 2015, when replaced Ignacio Quereda. He was the fourth coach of the women’s team after Rafael Muga and Teodoro Nieto.
That same day, August 26, eleven members of the coaching staff of the Spanish women’s team, including Jorge Vilda, made their positions available to the RFEF in support of Jenni Hermoso and the rest of the international players after the Events carried out at the end of the World Cup final by President Luis Rubiales, who touched his genitals in the authorities’ box, pointing, as he stated, to Vilda, and kissed the Mexican Pachuca player on the mouth.
“I’m as good as you can be after being world champion sixteen days ago, ten days ago being renewed for four more years with a higher salary and today being unjustly dismissed,” said Jorge Vilda, in ‘El Larguero’, from Cadena SER, where he revealed that the contract offered by Rubiales was “perfected after the World Cup for four more years apart from the one he still had.”
“I have been fired after a brief meeting with Pedro Rocha (current president of the RFEF), the secretary and the vice president of equality. The explanation is structural changes. After seventeen years in women’s football, after everything I’ve achieved and giving my all as one more federation worker, I have a clear conscience. I have given everything, ”he confessed.
“I did not expect. She was going with another idea to the meeting. In the end, you always have the illusion and the hope of the good treatment that I have always received. I saw myself strong for playing in the League of Nations and the Olympic Games”, said the Spanish coach, who said he knew what the world of football is like.
“I know what my profession is and what I do. When we lose there is criticism and when we win the balloon inflates. In sports I accept everything or almost everything but personally yes (it has been unfair). I have taken it as a master this last year. Nothing has ever been said directly about me but indirectly through networks, yes, ”he stressed.
I hope all this has been of some use. The victory of the women’s team will be valued more over time and everyone will be rewarded for what they have achieved”, she highlighted.
The Spanish coach also spoke about his applause, standing up, for Luis Rubiales, in his Assembly speech on August 25, in which he announced that he would not resign.
“I will never applaud anything sexist and I will never applaud anything that goes against feminism, understanding it as a fight for equality and equity. I didn’t know what I was going to that Assembly. I thought we were going to experience a resignation, and many people can feel reflected by an event in which there are many people, you are in the front line, your boss’s speech is addressed to you and he is making public that he values you”, he declared.
“I applaud a management, which must not be forgotten that in 2018, in women’s football, we moved at three million and now we do it at twenty-eight. I applaud that since 2018 I have not been told no to anything, ”commented Vilda, who continued to justify her attitude that day with the applause for Rubiales.
“I am not going to applaud the gestures but it is really difficult, with 140 people applauding, to be the only one who does not get up. When you go out and reflect, you go into shock and say that you would not have applauded before”, commented Vilda, who revealed that since the Assembly she has not spoken with Rubiales, of whom she reiterated that his actions at the World Cup awards ceremony were “improper”. .
Montsé Tomé, who until now was the team’s second coach and was one of the eleven people who made their position available to the federation a few days ago, is the new coach.
“Deserved. I have congratulated her. She has the ability to do it very well. She was chosen by me for the coaching staff. I think she has great challenges ahead and a well-rounded team”, commented Vilda, who said that as far as he is concerned, “the greatest legacy” he can leave is “the recognizable style, the methodology for training, the talks and the videos . She has it to take advantage of. She is prepared and I know that she is going to do well ”.
“I have been fighting for women’s football for seventeen years, for the values of respect, work and equality. I have not moved from there. I have only worked, ”she stressed.
Since this controversy began, and after arriving in Spain from Australia, Vilda has not spoken to Jenni Hermoso.
“I have known her for sixteen years, since she was a child. I have seen her become a woman and a world reference. I know that she is having a hard time and so is her family. She is waiting for everything to pass. I have not talked to her. I have disconnected from the phone. I can only say that she has helped me a lot and I have done my best so that things go well for her too, ”she commented.
Finally, Jorge Vilda said he was “very proud of what he has achieved” during all this time in charge of the Spanish team.
“I remember the players who have participated in all this time because they have all built the world champion Spain. I even go further back with the previous players and the pioneers and there are also clubs, territorial federations and the federation that have helped ”, she concluded. EFE
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