2023-09-20 05:16:12
There will be a Sweden-Spain match on Friday in the Nations League with 21 of the 23 players called up by Montse Tomé. This was confirmed by Víctor Francos, the president of the Higher Sports Council, at 04:45 in the morning from the doors of the team’s concentration hotel in Oliva (Valencia).
Víctor Francos arrived at the concentration headquarters after seven in the afternoon and the meeting with the international players did not begin until shortly after 9:00 p.m. After more than seven hours of exchange of views, the conclusion is that almost all the international players will travel to Sweden on Thursday the 21st. “We have had several meetings with the players, meetings that have been very cordial, with a friendly tone and a constructive will,” commented Francos at around five in the morning. “The players, the Government and the Federation have spoken freely. The conclusions we have reached will be reflected in agreements that will be signed and drafted by the Federation and CSD. We will form a mixed and tripartite commission to follow up on those agreements reached on issues such as the development of the Sports Law, equal pay, the improvement in the quality of infrastructure for women’s sports,” said the president of the CSD. “The players have shown their concern about the need for profound changes and the Federation has committed to ensuring that these changes occur immediately,” said Francos.
“In the call and the concentration there are two players – they could be Alexia Putellas and Irene Paredes – who have requested, due to lack of spirit and personal discomfort, the possibility of abandoning it and not going to Sweden. It has been agreed that this resignation does not entail sanctions. There are “21 players of the 23 who have shown their willingness to stay. They are all in a difficult moment, but the senior women’s team will play the two games – Sweden and Switzerland in the Nations League – with guarantees,” said the head of the sport. Spanish.
“21 players are going to Sweden in a gesture that honors them. There are two who do not feel up to the spirit or strength to go and know that they are not going to face a sanctioning process. Furthermore, the continuity of Montse Tomé while I was at the meeting,” commented Francos.
Rafael del Amo, the national team’s federation manager, also appeared, highlighting that the decisions about changes in the Federation “will be made tomorrow because there have to be changes and it will be like that. What we are looking for is harmony.” The team will carry out its first training today in the late morning or early afternoon and on Thursday it will travel from Madrid to Sweden.
Before the beginning of the meetings, there was a novelty in the call and that is that the forward Esther González, a player from the American NJ/NY Gotham, would not join the concentration and her position will be occupied by the Sevilla player Cristina Martín-Prieto. Martín-Prieto will be part of the team in the Nations League matches against Sweden, on Friday in Gothenburg, and against Switzerland, on Tuesday, September 26 in Córdoba.
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