2023-09-05 19:21:00
A few months ago, in one of those impersonal buildings in Manchester where some of the Spanish soccer players who live there sought better conditions in exchange for days, afternoons and nights of solitude, rain and homesickness, sadness took over the place. Jorge Vilda, former sports director, former Spanish coach, and chief of a team in which no one questioned him, imposed his psychological law from a distance. Some of those 15 soccer players who rebelled against the system -how capricious, right?- tried to keep silent from a distance, knowing that any gesture too much, any misinterpreted word, would end up sinking them.
Jorge Vilda is the coach who won the first Women’s World Cup for Spain in history. OK. But He did it in front of an emotionally dismembered team, where the players had to join the bridges that their coach had blown up. Some women who were forced to be separated between good and bad, converts or enemies, faithful or rebellious. A team in which the soccer players ended up opting for vindication, first personally, then as a group, even above the insistent role of a coach who sought a place to forgive himself in their embrace.
Alexia Putellas reluctantly attended the World Cup, with a serious expression and carried away by that industry that threatens to lock her up in a golden cage that she does not feel belongs to. She did not wear the bracelet, nor did Irene Paredes. Aitana Bonmatí, despite the fact that there were those in the Federation who labeled her a “traitor” For always daring to defend her rights, a player who, since she was a child, got used to defending herself against those who wanted to trample on her, ended up imposing her dreams. And she became the best player in the World Cup, the best player in Europe for UEFA, in addition to opening the final step towards the Ballon d’Or and, above all, denouncing before the stiff Alexander Ceferin those Rubiales abuses of power, from his government of clappers, both normalized.
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But while a good handful of women struggled to save their short sports careers, others suffered contempt. Mapi León, Patri Guijarro, Claudia Pina, Lucía García, Nerea Eizagirre, Leila Ouahabi, Laia Aleixandri, Andrea Pereira, Sandra Paños, Lola Gallardo, Ainhoa Moraza and Amaiur Sarriegi were left without living a unique moment that was as much theirs or more than theirs. Jorge Vilda.
A soccer player who was left without playing in the World Cup, who was left without living the moment of a lifetime, her eyes moistened when thinking of Jorge Vilda. There can be no worse damage than that.
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