The chaos 24 hours after Montse Tomé's first list: without players, without coaching staff…

On August 25, five days after Luis Rubiales' non-consensual kiss with Jenni Hermoso, 81 soccer players, active and retired, announced, literally or symbolically, that they were resigning from the Spanish soccer team.. “All the players who sign this letter will not return to a call if the current leaders continue,” they stated in the joint statement.

20 days later, almost everything, but nothing, has changed in the Federation. Rubiales has resigned, Jorge Vilda has been fired and Montse Tomé, until August the coach's assistant, is now the new coach of the national team. But the highest organization of Spanish football has still not finalized the new organization chart for its women's football and the players still do not really believe the changes.. All, as if that were not enough, 24 hours from Tomé's first list, valid for the Nations League matches this September (the 22nd against Sweden in Göteborg and the 26th against Switzerland in Córdoba). A tournament that distributes two places for the next Olympic Games in Paris.

Maximum sporting pressure at a time of maximum social pressure. The backbone of the world champion team continues to think about its situation. They promised not to return until Rubiales and Vilda left, but the solution that the RFEF has offered them does not convince them: the vice president of the leader and the coach's assistant. They want to be in the Games, just as they wanted to win the World Cup, but they consider whether it is worth continuing to fight for more improvements. In recent days, Ana Álvarez, director of Women's Football of the Federation, has held various conversations with the locker room representatives to try to convince them to return, but the situation in Las Rozas is still not clear.

Rocha's attempts

This Friday Tomé, for whom the duration of her contract as coach is unknown, will give a list of which she does not yet know the available players nor has the RFEF announced the coaching staff that will be at her disposal.. There is no sports director of the women's section of the Federation, which until now was Vilda's position, nor is it known if the coaches and trainers who resigned at the end of August will return to their positions. Most of them finished their contract this year, so the situation is totally unpredictable.

Pedro Rocha, convinced of changing the image of Spanish football before it completely affects the Iberian candidacy for the 2030 World Cup, has personally tried to deal with the footballers and explain to them the structural changes he has planned for the RFEF, but he has not received a automatic response.