The women’s coach, supported by the FEF despite criticism from most internationals, assures in an interview that his “door is always open”
Controversial Spanish women’s football coach Jorge Vilda defined herself as a “dialogue person”, declaring that his door is “always open” before a group of 15 internationals, later supported by Alexia Putellas, emailed the FEF warning they would not renew. La Roja call will attend until the situation is “reversed” in the national team.
«I am a person of dialogue and my door is always open to talk and resolve things. It’s football situations. We will continue our work to get to the World Cup in the best conditions,” the 41-year-old Madrid coach said in an interview for the October issue of Esquire magazine.
Vilda talks about the geometric progression this sport has gone through in recent years, the values on which it is based, her professional future and the controversy surrounding internationals. “I’ve had offers outside of Spain, further away, closer, but I’m where I want to be. My commitment to the federation and to Spain is total. We have a great team, we know what we’re playing, people respect us for the way we play and I’m where I want to be,” Jorge Vilda emphasized.
This story took place before the latest ordeal launched by a large group of footballers, who claimed emotional and health reasons not to return to Spain at the moment. However, they denied demanding the resignation of their coach.
The players did not speak clearly, but ‘Mundo Deportivo’ newspaper anticipated the real reasons for their rejection of Jorge Vilda. Apparently they can’t stand him anymore due to excessive control and extreme surveillance. According to Catalan media, Vilda forced the footballers to keep the doors of their rooms open until midnight to personally check they were there before bed, something the internationals consider an attack on their privacy. According to sources close to the footballers, it was Vilda herself who was responsible for closing the doors of the rooms.
Sources close to the players also assure that, apart from reviewing their posts on social networks, the coach monitored them when they went to buy, to the point of reviewing their bags and their contents. And they even had to say who they were going to drink coffee with, for example. Faced with what they consider to be a ‘dictatorial’ control regime, the players felt ’embarrassed’.
In a different order, the 41-year-old coach explains in this interview that defeat is a feeling “much more powerful than victory.” «In football or in any sport for that matter. When you lose, there is a digestion process. I feel strong to continue because we have an exciting season and a very nice challenge in the World Cup,” he said.
According to him, women’s football is “purer”. “He doesn’t have the picaresque of the masculine. I would like it to stay that way. The protagonists are the players on the field. The coach has his space, each his own,” he said.
He admitted that the Ballon d’Or Alexia Putellas injury 24 hours after his debut in the last European Championship was an “atomic bomb”. “It had to be managed on an emotional level. Most striking is the strength Alexia has, it was special to see her encourage the rest,” he said.
Vilda confessed in this interview that the worst moment of her sports career happened when she found out that Virginia Torrecilla, an Atlético de Madrid player and one of the captains of the Spanish team, had been diagnosed with a brain tumor.
Jorge Vilda, who holds on to the position that binds him for at least another year to the Spanish Football Federation chaired by the controversial Luis Rubiales, faces a week after the planting of 15 footballers, supported by Alexia Putellas, seriously injured in one knee.
In principle, the Spanish coach should call up next Friday for friendlies against Sweden (October 7) at the Nuevo Arcángel Stadium in Córdoba and the United States (October 11) at the Sadar in Pamplona.
It is assumed that the troublesome players will not be there and that Vilda will have to resort to unusual and lower level footballers. A very serious competition problem because, for example, the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand is on the near horizon next summer.
Source: La Verdad
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