The women's team achieves changes in the RFEF but loses Mapi León and Patri Guijarro
The women's team will travel to Sweden to play the first match of the Nations League with 21 of the 23 players who were called up on Monday by coach Montse Tomé. That was the agreement reached by the soccer players, with the presence of the president of their union, Futpro, and the RFEF with the mediation of the Higher Sports Council.
Only two players, Mapi León and Patri Guijarro, were called off and left the Oliva concentration because they were not in a mental state to continue.. Both were already part of the group of The 12 that refused to go to the World Cup in Australia. “It is a reality that the situation for Patri and me is different from the rest of the colleagues. There have been no ways or forms to return. This is a process. “We are happy because some changes are taking place,” said León.. They will be replaced by two players that Tomé will call in the next few hours.
The decision was announced by the president of the CSD, Víctor Francos, at five in the morning at the doors of the Valencian resort. “We have had very cordial meetings, with a very friendly and constructive tone in which the players have expressed themselves freely, and we have reached agreements that will be drawn up and signed tomorrow,” Francos said.
The first of them is to create a “mixed tripartite commission that will ensure compliance with the agreements that have to do, in the case of the CSD, with the development of the Sports Law.”
The second is that the RFEF will make a series of changes that it will announce in the next few hours and that entail the departure of personnel from the federative structure and the replica for the environment of the men's team for the women's team, as confirmed by the president of the commission of women's soccer, Rafael Del Amo.
Among these changes, although he did not ratify it, will also be the dismissal of the general secretary, Andreu Camps.. These agreements satisfy the Government and also the players, as stated by the president of Futpro, Amanda Gutiérrez, who considered them “the beginning of an understanding” that will end the open gap.
Until this agreement was reached, there were meetings of more than six hours with the 23 soccer players, 15 of them World Champions, first with Víctor Francos, who was joined by representatives of the RFEF, and then only them with the coaching staff that headed by Montse Tomé.
Víctor Francos, president of the CSD, and Rafael del Amo, president of the RFEF Women's Football Committee. ARABA PRESS
They told the CSD that they were in this concentration, to which they arrived tired, tense and very serious, forced under the threat of sanction and received the support of Francos, who considered the attitude of the RFEF “unacceptable” and made the president see of the Women's Committee, Rafael Del Amo, and the director of soccer, Ana Álvarez, who had to allow those players who wished to leave the concentration.. But they wanted a written guarantee that they would not be penalized for it.
To avoid the disbandment, led by the Barça footballers, who were accompanied to Oliva by two club directors, the RFEF announced to them that it was moving and was beginning to implement the changes they demanded in their statement last Friday.. The departure, now complete, of Rubiales and Jorge Vilda and the remodeling of the presidential cabinet will be joined in the next few hours by the dismissal of the general secretary, Andreu Camps, and the head of the Integrity department, Miguel García Caba.. The changes in communication materialized, for the moment, in the absence of the four-person team that accompanies the women's team from the concentration.. They went to Oliva but did not even set foot in the Oliva Nova resort.
For some players, the changes announced, but not executed, could be enough, but not for all. In fact, Del Amo acknowledged that he had “perceived a certain division” between them.
At one in the morning, the meeting with Francos and the RFEF ended. In fact, the president of the CSD was seen on the phone at the door of the hotel and chatted in the hall with Del Amo. Meanwhile, the players returned to a room to meet with Tomé and his assistants. They had a lot to say to each other, especially the international ones wanted to know why he put them in this situation and why he said he had spoken to them if he didn't do it with all of them.
Despite the fear that the players would not support the coach, the RFEF was quick to leak that her position was never in danger.
At 3:36 in the morning, Tomé left the meeting and Amanda Gutiérrez, from the Futpro union, joined to advise the players and unify positions.
After a horrible day, the solution does not seem to make the team stronger. In fact, the exhaustion of the grotesque trips, the impossibility of training and the fact that on Thursday they have to travel to Gothenburg make the match against Sweden a danger.