The DT was fired from the Spanish women’s team after denouncing mistreatment of 15 players

After eight years in charge of the Spain women’s team, Jorge Vilda was dismissed this Tuesday by the RFEF, after the complaint for mistreatment of 15 players. The coach had a I go through the team full of controversies and leaves after win the 2023 world cup amid the controversy of the non-consensual kiss from Luis Rubiales to Jenni Hermoso.

His replacement will be Montse Tomewho had been Vilda’s technical assistant since 2018 and she will become the first woman to hold the position.

In a statement, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) announced that they decided “to do without the services of Jorge Vilda as sports director and women’s national coach”. According to the organization, this was “one of the first renovation measures“after the scandal over the forced kiss of Luis Rubiales to the player Jenni Hermoso, who has been convulsing Spanish football for weeks.

Anyway, the RFEF did not criticize Vilda in his statement and valued “his faultless personal conduct and sporty, being a key piece in the remarkable growth of women’s football in Spain“.

Jorge Vilda and a controversial passage through the Spanish National Team

Although the RFEF announced today the decision to dismiss vilda, speculation about his possible removal from office had been coming for weeks. Although the situation of the 42-year-old coach worsened after he endorsed the president of the Spanish Federation, Luis Rubiales in the controversy over the non-consensual kiss to Jenni Hermoso, The tension within the team had been coming for a long time.

In September 2022, 15 players from the squad had targeted Vilda and they had warned that they would not return to the Selection until will change the situation within the team. Among the denunciations of the referents, they repudiated the methods that they considered “dictatorial” and attacks on their privacy. They pointed out that the DT forced them, for example, to leave the doors of their rooms open during the concentrations, turning up on occasion for late night chat. They accused that these behaviors they affected both his “emotional and personal state” and his “performance”.

On the sporting front as well criticized Vilda’s undemanding workouts which, in his opinion, did not correspond to a professional level.

Thirteen of the complaining players, with the exception of Aitana Bonmatí, Mariona Caldentey and Ona Batlle, they missed the 2023 World Cup.

Throughout the tournament, however, the players who did participate in the World Cup implicitly continued the claim against Vilda and They were far from him and his entire coaching staffmaking it clear that the situation was far from being resolved.

Vilda’s closeness to Rubiales increased the controversy

In addition to the denunciations prior to the World Cup, The coach’s closeness to Rubiales also encouraged the RFEF to decide to dismiss him. With the president of the body suspended by FIFA, the Federation of Spain seeks to clean up its image and leave behind the scandal that went around the world.

In Rubiales’ controversial speech, where he assured that he would not resign from his position, the president also supported Vilda in the conflict she had with the players and had stated that would extend his contract at the head of La Roja and increase your salary to half a million euros a year.

Yes ok Vilda tried to break away from Rubiales regretting in a statement the “improper behavior” of the suspended leader, his image had already been very touched.

For his part, Montse Tome She had also been present during Rubiales’ speech, applauding in the front row, although both she and a large part of the Spanish coaching staff denounced in a statement that she had been forced to attend and maintained that she would not return to the team as long as the same leadership continued.

“After the Extraordinary General Assembly of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, which took place on August 25, 2023, in which the president of the REF did not present his resignation and in which offered a story that does not reflect in any way what was felt by the aforementioned playerwho has expressly stated that she felt she was the “victim of an attack”, this part of the Technical Team supports the player Jennifer Hermoso endorsing the version offered by it. Adding to the discomfort of having to Mandatory attendance at the aforementioned assembly on August 25in which, in addition, there was a particularly hurtful event for this technical body, since several of the female members of the technical staff they were forced to sit in the front rowexposing his image and trying to make society and players understand that they shared the theses of the president of the REF,” part of the coaching staff repudiated in a statement.