It’s a crisis that goes around in circles without ever seeing the end of the tunnel. At the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and around the women’s national team for almost a month, and the heroic victory of La Roja against England in the final of the World Cup, the forced kiss given by president Luis Rubiales at number 10 Jennifer Hermoso caused an earthquake that deeply set the institution and the team in motion.
On Tuesday, a new development occurred with the dismissal of the highly contested coach Jorge Vilda, the only member of the Spanish women’s staff not to have resigned following the scandal caused by Rubiales. In the process, the RFEF announced the name of its successor: its former assistant, Montse Tomé.
A solution which is far from unanimous, quite the contrary, in the ranks of the world champions, who had decided unanimously to boycott the selection at the height of the scandal. Several Spanish media, including radio COPE and the daily SPORT, reports a group divided over this appointment, which has caused the “dissatisfaction of some players of the Spanish national team”. “They consider that choosing the one who was the right arm of Jorge Vilda at the head of the national team is not the best option to forget the recent past”, writes SPORT. Others, on the contrary, see it as a good thing, Tomé already knowing this team like the back of his hand, having been part of the staff for more than 5 years.
“The appointment of Montse as coach of the national team, I have doubts about its merits,” former Spain international Verónica Boquete told COPE. I think there are more cronyisms than merits. If we talk about the merits of leading a world champion team, I believe Montse is not on that list. An opportunity to make a deeper change and get it right was lost. »
