Alexia Putellas: “We don’t add or remove anything, we always face each other”

Alexia Putellas He said this Thursday in a press conference that the players of the Spanish team do not add or remove anyone, and that they have “never” requested the dismissal of any team employee. Real Spanish soccer federation, including the current coach, Montse Tome.

“We brought concerns and concepts where the locker room was uncomfortable.”, transferred all the information to the appropriate person, but the coach and the sports director are the same person (Jorge Vilda). We do not appoint or fire anyone, we have not asked anyone to be fired. We always go ahead, we fight for transparent football and we cannot help but be that way,” said the Spanish national team soccer player.

Alexia said this at the press conference before the Nations League match against Sweden, which will be played this Friday (6:30 pm) at the Gamla Ullevi Stadium, where he also spoke with the FC Barcelona player. Irene Paredes.

Alexia tried to summarize what she experienced these days and apologized to the reporters, because the press conference was short because they had training and they were chatting with the coach. Montse Tomé.

“We’ve been asking them to listen to us for a long time, we’ve detected, we’ve known, for decades now systematic discrimination in women’s football. We have to fight a lot to be heard“That entails wear and tear, wear and tear that we don’t want to have, because what we care about is winning,” he said.

“But what happened in the final and the following meeting (of the RFEF) was the straw that broke the camel’s back and we said that this cannot happen, that we cannot continue on that path. In that situation we have to say that zero tolerancefor Jenni (Hermoso), for us, and for us to be a precedent,” she highlighted.

“The meeting in Oliva (Valencia) is before and after, I really think about it, I trust that the agreements that have been reached will make our sport and women’s sport, and therefore society, better,” he concluded.

“We’ve been sleeping four hours for a week. We were the first to want to be soccer players, but it wasn’t possible,” stressed the soccer player of the Barçaand reiterated that they do not add or remove coaches, but instead ask questions “zero tolerance for people who hide, applaud or incite abuse.”

“If this makes women see that they don’t have to go through what our colleague went through, it has been worth it. With Jenni, the system and protocols failed. It took a month to speak in favor of our colleague and issued statements to defame him,” he said.