Rafael del Amo, president of the Women’s Football Technical Committee of the RFEFhas granted an interview in the Diario de Navarra in which he positions himself on the controversy that the women’s team has been experiencing in recent weeks and the treatment that the coach is undergoing Jorge Vilda.
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For Del Amo, “the players have not been successful at all. It has never happened that 15 girls sign a letter, in which they also do not ask anywhere for the resignation of Jorge Vilda. We have changed the selection brutally in recent years “. The head of the referees goes further and points out that the statement was directed “by two or three leaders, or their representatives. I know that there are some of them who do not agree with what they have done, that they have shot themselves in the foot”.
Regarding the suspicions that have crept into Jorge Vilda, Del Amo is categorical in defending the coach. “It is a lie that Vilda entered the rooms. He wants to have his space and I swear that he is a super upright person. In addition, the captains have told me, when I have spoken with them, that the treatment is exquisite”.
She does not hide that “it is a complicated situation, but the girls who have come are super excited and are top-tier players. Together, the players, the coaches and the leaders, we have made this improve. We have to support them and encourage them” . And she ends up reproaching the attitude of the soccer players who gave up being summoned: “You have to remember and more in football because Vilda supported all the players during the last European Championship when they had some bad performance”.
The Vilda case does not end generating controversy, with accessions to the ‘rebel’ players or the coach. Both parties remain firm in their positions and there is still no rapprochement between the parties, months before the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, which will be held from July 20 to August 20, is held.
