Rubiales, Vilda and a broken team: "The Federation has dynamited women's football"

• The crisis of the women's team A 'mail' at seven in the afternoon and the request of the RFEF and the CSD: "Let them explain"

• Statement "We have never asked for Vilda's dismissal"

• Controversy in the RFEF The support of Megan Rapinoe

24 hours of calls and tension in the Ciudad del Fútbol de Las Rozas.

Again.

Women's football is once again in the media spotlight and not precisely because of the ball.

First it was the collective agreement, then the creation of the Professional League, later the strike of the referees and now, when everything seemed to return to calm and the ball was beginning to roll, the last conflict between the players and the Federation for the continuity of

on the national team's bench.

The soccer players, advised by the FutPro union, published a statement yesterday in which they deny having resigned from the national team and admit that they requested "not to be summoned until situations that affect our emotional and personal state, our performance and , consequently, to the results of the Selection and that could lead to undesirable injuries ».

They claim a "professional project" at the height of "a group of top-level players with whom more and better goals can be achieved."

That is to say, the squad of the national team, publicly supported yesterday by the injured Ballon d'Or

, admits that "we have never asked for the dismissal of the coach" but hints that he wants a change in the coaching staff of the national team.

That is: «To express in a constructive and honest way what we consider can improve the performance of the group».

They do not demand it, but it is the wish of the players.

White and bottled.

"extreme vigilance"

They accuse the Federation of wanting to infantilize them, of leaking private data and have previously confessed a "generalized discomfort" towards the coaching staff.

Sources from the locker room environment explain that the problems between the coach and the players derive from "extreme vigilance" during the concentrations, although they have not made it public throughout this month of controversy.

In addition, they privately cry out against

, the person most responsible for the continuity of a Vilda who was at his side in the elections for the presidency of the Federation in 2018. Despite the fact that some information suggested that Vilda's chosen one was

ended up voting for Rubiales.

Four years later, the president has made Vilda sports director of women's football.

In the target of the players, in addition to Vilda, is the president, who has never finished landing on the right foot in the absolute dressing room.

According to sources close to several soccer players, they consider that his commitment to women's soccer is not being what the photos and announcements of their leaders appear to be.

The negotiations for the agreement, the conflict with the Professional League, the referees' strike, the celebration of the women's Super Cup in Las Rozas while the men's cup traveled to a country like Saudi Arabia, which oppresses women, have not pleased many players and they have made it known.

Nor does the image of her in the locker room help, why fool yourself, the complaint by the former chief of staff of the president, which this newspaper reported and in which it was ensured that an orgy was paid for with money from the Federation.

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Fifteen players resign as they do not agree with the continuity of Vilda

• Writing: ABRAHAM ROMEROMadrid

Fifteen players resign as they do not agree with the continuity of Vilda

Finally, the soccer players are very angry about the leak, "in a partial and interested way, of a private communication, with information that affects our health sent in response to the Federation's request to know which of us wanted not to be summoned .

Communication to which we have not received a formal response.

That Thursday

unleashed a delirious Friday, full of half-truths and uncomfortable silences waiting for Las 15 to specify the reasons for their resignation.

"Let them explain," they demanded from the Federation and the CSD in conversation with this newspaper, alleging that by not arguing their position, they created rumors around the team's locker room: "If there is something else, report it."

"They are very serious"

Because it is there, in the non-sporting reasons for his resignation, those that are still unknown and that he insinuates, without naming them, the locker room environment, where the future of the national team and women's football will reside.

The next move, if there is one, will be capital in this chess game that the players have started against the Rubiales organization and for which there is no turning back.

"They are very serious," pointed out a source close to a soccer player before the statement was made public.

How they manage the next few days and the next statements will depend on their future.

If only the sporting issues that have been expressed in yesterday's letter exist, they could lose the selection wheel.

If there are more, those responsible for the Federation will be touched.

Ainhoa ​​Moraza

,

(Atlético),

,

,

,

,

,

(Barça),

,

(Manchester City),

,

(Manchester United),

(America from Mexico),

and

(Real society).

Those are the 15 names that have turned the absolute upside down.

The last step of a locker room that "couldn't take it anymore", according to those who know that environment.

"The Federation has dynamited women's football," point out those same sources.

The players, also supported by the captains

,

and Alexia Putellas, already warned at the beginning of the month that the situation was unsustainable and demanded a change in the bench, but ended up taking a step back in the famous press conference in the City of Soccer Las Rozas.

In the RFEF they thought that the conflict was resolved and that the last meetings between Vilda and the captains had put out the fire, but the conflict, one more for Luis Rubiales, has exploded in their faces again.

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