2023-09-25 18:08:09
Barcelona No less than 39 of the best players in Spanish football, 21 of whom are world champions, issued a statement on September 15 in which they say they will not return to the national team until there are structural changes in the RFEF. They do it, mainly, to feel safe and to materialize zero tolerance towards people in the organization who have had, incited, hidden or applauded attitudes that go against the dignity of women. In addition, on Thursday, Alexia Putellas and Irene Paredes gave a recital of arguments – expanded on Sunday – to explain their position. “When you make a decision as important as not going to the Spanish national team, you have to explain very clearly what the reasons are,” Santiago Cañizares, Real Madrid and Valencia exporter, told La Cope the next day, despite everything.
It seems that for the Cañizares of life, the reason of wanting to feel safe in the ecosystem of a federation that has dozens of people who applauded in front of everyone – including Cañizares – is not enough ‘a suspected sexual aggressor of one of his colleagues. To find the answer to their sadness, all of them could have paid a little attention to the events that happened, for example, during the year before the World Cup dispute. There were leaders of the RFEF who again and again put sticks in the wheels of the improvements requested by the players in relation to sports preparation and travel conditions, which the men’s national team has been doing for a long time Enjoy. There were also black lists drawn up by the RFEF and Jorge Vilda on the 15 how much more difficult it was for them to return to the national team if they wanted to play in the World Cup -Mariona Caldentey was there because of a simple personal disappointment of Vilda-. And the players lived the hard experience of being immersed in the struggle to be able to do their work and advance in a retrograde and clientelistic system that both allegedly brings ‘young girls’ paid by the RFEF to a work meeting as, also allegedly , has managers of a territorial federation like the Catalan one – led by Joan Soteras, vice-president of the RFEF during the mandate of Luis Rubiales – who make the only female manager dance on the table during a dinner to have a good time.
So if someone still doesn’t know what the soccer players are demanding, it’s because, after a year has passed since the start of the players’ historic struggle, they haven’t stopped to listen to them (to them and other women of world of football) with not a single minute’s attention. Or, simply, he has pretended that certain images and information that a screen has shown him were not with him. Precisely, Soteras summed up this position very well clueless in an interview with the newspaper ARA while justifying why he had not been forceful from the first moment with Rubiales. “I had seen the video [del petó de Rubiales a Hermoso] once, but I hadn’t paid much attention to it either. After two or three days of reflection, of seeing him and seeing him again and of observing all that was being explained, we said [en referència al fet que el petó fos consentit]: ‘Holy shit, maybe this isn’t as real as we thought.'”
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