Barcelona”When I was little I played football in the street. Luckily, my parents always supported me. So did the boys I played with,” Montse Tomé recalled in 2021, when he made the proclamation at the festivities in his city, Pola de Siero Some of those boys would become professional footballers, such as Javi Venta (former Levante and Villarreal player) or Javi Fuego (former Valencia and Espanyol player). Tomé also reached the First Division, but earning little. It was a different time. So at the age of 30 she retired and focused on being a coach: “I can’t live without football”. Some of those former street party mates, by the way, have been through the football camp that Tomé organizes every summer in Asturias. His life has always been football. And now she has the honor of being the first woman to lead the absolute Spanish national team.
Tomé has been Jorge Vilda’s right-hand man for the last five years in the absolute selection, although after the famous non-consensual kiss of Luis Rubiales, president of the Spanish Federation, to Jenni Hermoso, he was removed. In fact, he had even resigned from his position, but now he has agreed to lead the national team project. A change with some continuity, since the coaching staff will be similar, but with a female captain instead of a captain at the helm. Born in Oviedo on May 22, 1982 but raised in Pola de Siero, she is always remembered on the street scoring goals. “I started at a very young age. I really liked football, at a very young age I can already remember moments behind the ball. But I could only play in official teams with boys and I had to play in the street with friends that allowed me to improve until I was thirteen years. From there I entered El Romanón, in Pola de Siero. Later I went to Oviedo Moderno,” he recalled in an interview with The Voice of Asturias. He also practiced handball, athletics and karate from a young age. I didn’t know how to be still. Now his other great passion is cycling. Whenever he can, he goes out for a ride.
The coach first made a career as a player, playing as a midfielder. In 2000, she was runner-up in Europe with the national team at the Under-19 European Championships, and then managed to play five matches with the Spanish national team. He started his career at Oviedo Moderno, in 2007 he moved to Levante, where he lived a good time and where he won a league, and in 2010 he went to Barça, where the first stone of a winning project was laid . In fact, with her they would win the first league in 2012 and a cup in 2011. After years of dominance by clubs like Espanyol or Llevant, Barça started to make noise with Xavi Llorens on the bench and players like goalkeeper Laura Ràfols, Marta Corredera or the Asturian. Tomé arrived to provide experience and so it was, even though he decided to return home in 2012, just when Barça signed a certain Alexia Putellas. They narrowly disagreed. “My time was different. We had few references. Now things have improved, women’s football is attractive, but there is still a lot to do. I see everything that has progressed and it is beautiful. When I played, sometimes I thought if I would play a World Cup and it seemed like a dream. I’ve experienced it as a coach,” the new coach, who has been Jorge Vilda’s assistant at the World Cup, explained these days.
After hanging up her boots, years later she started her career as a coach, taking a course in which she coincided with Jorge Vilda, precisely. It is where they met and became friends. Tomé combined for two years the position of second coach of the absolute with that of coach of the under-17 national team, with which she would win the 2022 World Cup. Three years ago, however, she decided to focus on the national team absolute, next to a Vilda about whom he always had positive words. Until Rubiales kissed Hermoso. This crisis separated her from both Vilda and Rubiales. In fact, he offered her the position of sports director of the selection in the famous assembly in which she refused to resign. Not only did Tomé reject it, but she also resigned from her position as Vilda’s second coach, along with other members of the coaching staff.
Montse Tomé’s debut will come in the next two FIFA dates, with the Nations League matches. On September 22, Spain will play in Sweden, and on the 26th at Nuevo Arcángel de Córdoba against Switzerland.
2023-09-05 18:51:32
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