• Mondelo Fired

The Tokyo Olympics had not even finished when the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB) decided to dismiss

Lucas Mondelo

.

The most successful coach in the history of national women's basketball left office abruptly after the elimination in the quarterfinals against France, the same summer that he had also failed to pass that round in the Eurobasket played in Valencia and in which he stayed without a ticket to the next World Cup.

Mondelo had a contract in force until 2024, according to the extension signed in September 2020, and that is why it decided to put the case in the hands of its lawyers, since it considered that the dismissal should be null. After admitting the former coach's claim, as EL MUNDO has learned, on November 24 both the FEB and its president,

Jorge Garbajosa

, will be judged in Madrid

.

The Federation then took advantage of "one of the clauses" of the contract and the "failure to achieve sporting objectives" (among which, apparently, it specified the non-qualification for the 2022 World Cup) to fire the coach that added, among other achievements, three continental golds, an Olympic silver and a world medal. In his lawsuit for social issues, filed at the beginning of September and simultaneously against the entity and its president, Mondelo considers that the dismissal was null and, on the other hand, that Jorge Garbajosa violated several of his fundamental rights - hence the speed in the conclusion of the process-, for which he asks for reinstatement to his position as selector.

Among the witnesses called to testify at the trial, in addition to the defendant Garbajosa, is

José Ignacio Hernández

, FEB sports director.

Also its Director of Communication,

Víctor Charneco,

and the person in charge of the IT area.

Lawsuit against Xargay and Cruz

Only a couple of days after the dismissal, the player

Marta Xargay

attacked Lucas Mondelo in the pages of

El País

, in an interview in which she accused him of his radical methods that had even caused bulimia during the stage in which the The coach and the player coincided in the Russian team of Dinamo Kursk (2018-19 season). "There are limits that must not be crossed and he (Mondelo) took me to a very 'heavy' limit. This caused me a physical and mental revolution," admitted the player.

"At no time have I been warned by Kursk, by the FEB, nor by the player, nor by the medical services, nor by anyone from the FEB structure of any type of anomaly that led to the serious events of which He accuses me. In addition, to indicate that the responsibility for the feeding of the players does not correspond to the coach but to the medical services of the FEB or the club, which I reiterate, they never told me that the player suffered from any disorder, "Mondelo replied at the time to the accusations.

Lucas Mondelo, during the Tokyo Games.FEB

In that information, it was stated that the Federation was aware of the seriousness of the accusations of the former Catalan international and that they stopped the publication of an article that was going to see the light before the Games so as not to harm the interests of the national team.

Facts that were denied by the entity: "As the former player herself has recognized, the FEB was not aware of this situation until the publication of said information, since it would not have consented to a behavior of this type within one of its teams."

Miguel Méndez

was recently announced

as the new coach.

Days after Xargay's testimony, another international player,

Anna Cruz

, spoke along the same lines.

He accused Mondelo of having made "life impossible" for him.

Also as this newspaper has learned, the current Japanese Toyota Antelopes coach also put the case in the hands of his lawyers and sued both players for damages to their honor and false accusations.

Said claim has also been admitted for processing, although, in this case, it still does not have a trial date.

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