The women’s soccer team continues to star in shocking episodes. In this case, those of Montse Tomé, coach who took over from Jorge Vilda and made her debut on the bench directly in charge of the national team, lost in the Nations League against Italy (2-3) after taking to the field after of the break with 10 players
He leaves with ten and almost nine after the break
Athenea del Castillo and Aitana Bonmatí had stayed in the dressing room, but only Lucía García came out on the field, and she did so without being prepared. The soccer player was not wearing her shirt or laced her boots when she entered the field running to correct the umpteenth blunder of a team that has not yet shaken off its setbacks. García was able to start after the restart, however the second player who had to enter entered the field of play when Spain had already scored the first goal and without warming up. It was Esther González.
The mismanagement also continued in the mixed zone, where the coach and players offered several different versions of the events. “At half-time we made the change from Athenea to Lucía and then when we were going to enter, in the second half, Aitana informs us shortly that she cannot continue. That’s why we don’t have time for Esther to warm up and enter the match, that’s why we start with one less player», justified Tomé in the press room.
A version that does not match the one that Athenea del Castillo said, the only one who came out to meet the press in Pasarón together with the Galician Tere Abelleira. Del Castillo pointed out that “The changes have just started the talk. It must have been a miscalculation, I couldn’t tell you. It’s something we have to learn from because it can’t happen again.” Abelleira was upset by the image given and the defeat after what happened in front of her countrymen: “Honestly, I don’t know what happened, but we can’t afford these things. These things must be corrected, it cannot happen again.”
Vilda, out for being inexperienced; but they admit the ‘beginner’ Tomé
It is not the first time that the versions of the national team and the players differ. A team that does not have the support of the entire dressing room. When Tomé was appointed by Pedro Rocha, the interim president at the time, to replace Jorge Vilda, it was understood as an image washing operation by putting a woman in charge of the team after what had happened with Vilda. However, there is something difficult to explain in his choice and permanence as a selector. The players rioted and pressed before the World Cup for Vilda to be terminated, among other reasons, because she did not have proven experience on the benches, which was true because he made his debut as an elite technician with the national team. But at least he had accumulated the experience of having been in the place since 2015. That’s why it was even more surprising that the players did admit that she was put in charge of the Montse Tomé selection, former player and assistant of Vilda, who had no experience in command of a team. Tomé had never managed a club, but the doubts about his appointment, which divided the national team’s dressing room, subsided at first after negotiations with the president of the Superior Sports Council, Víctor Francos.
It is now raining heavily with Tomé, who has been in office for three months. In the last window of international matches, in the match played in Zurich, Tomé could not line up several players due to an error when entering the call-up in the official UEFA application. “It was a computer problem”, explained the Federation to explain the mistake, knowing that it was a human error.
What has happened has once again raised discordant voices in the selection with the choice of Tomé, who has already had to justify other incidents without success and has caused misunderstandings that denied the same players as when he justified the absence from the list of Jenni Hermoso to protect her, to which the Pachuca striker replied: ¿Protect “What about me?” The ridiculousness of what happened against Italy has no sporting consequences because Spain was already qualified for the Olympic Games, but it does reopen the debate on the appointment of the Asturian as coach, despite not having any experience in the position. It is the last straw of a selection that lives surrounded by shocks.
2023-12-02 19:48:58
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