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By: EFE Posted 21 Sep 2023, 16:25 pm EDT
Alexia Putellas He stated this Thursday that the players of the Spanish team do not add or remove anyone, and that they have “never” requested the dismissal of any employee of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEf).
“We neither appoint nor remove anyone, we have never asked for the dismissal of anyone. We always face each other, “We fight for transparent football and we cannot not be that way,” he stated.
“We have conveyed concerns and concepts with which the locker room did not feel comfortable.”, transferring all the information to the appropriate person, but the coach and the sports director were the same person (Jorge Vilda). We always go ahead, we fight for transparent football and we cannot help but be that way,” he said.
Alexia stated this in the press conference prior to the match against Sweden in the Nations League, which will be played this Friday (6:30 p.m.) at the Gamla Ullevi Stadium, in which he spoke with Irene Paredes.
Alexia tried to summarize what she had experienced these days and apologized to the journalists, because the press conference was short because they had training and a chat with the coach Montse Tomé.
“We had been demanding that they listen to us for quite some time, we were detecting, We already knew that there had been systematic discrimination in women’s football for too many decades. We had to fight a lot to be heard, that entails wear and tear, wear and tear that we don’t want to have, because what we care about is winning,” she said.
“But what happened in the final and in the subsequent assembly (of the RFEF) was the last straw.” and we said it couldn’t happen, that we couldn’t continue down that path. In that situation we had to say zero tolerance, for Jenni (Hermoso), for us, and that we set a precedent,” he highlighted.
“The Oliva meeting is a before and after, I really think about it”I am confident that the agreements reached will make our sport and women’s sport, and consequently society, much better,” he summarized.
“We have been sleeping four hours for a week. We are the first to want to be soccer players, but it has not been possible,” the Barcelona soccer player stressed, and reiterated that they neither appoint nor remove coaches, but instead ask for “zero tolerance towards people who have hidden, applauded or incited abuse.”
“If this makes women see that they don’t have to go through what our colleague has gone through, it has been worth it. With Jenni the system and protocols have failed. It took a month to speak out in favor of our colleague and statements were issued to discredit her,” she said.
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