MADRID, 26 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish women’s soccer coach, Montse Tomé, advocated this Thursday to continue “moving forward” since “the situation is the same” with respect to defender Mapi León and midfielder Patri Guijarro, absent again in the ‘Roja’ squad. ‘ for matchdays 3 and 4 in the new Nations League.
“They already conveyed it to me in Oliva. I think there was communication, there was respect on all sides and I already said the same thing at the press conference. The situation is the same, we respect it and we continue to move forward. We are now with these 24 players thinking about the next games,” said Tomé during an interview with the program ‘El Larguero’ on the SER network.
Thus, the two culés will miss Spain’s imminent matches against Italy and Switzerland, within Group A4 in the Nations League. Not in vain, León and Guijarro abandoned last month’s concentration in Oliva (Valencia), on the eve of days 1 and 2 of said competition, and which served to agree on the constitution within the RFEF of a Joint Commission for the promotion of women’s football.
“I really want everything to be at the point we want, in football, in valuing the success that has been achieved and everything that remains to be achieved. In the last concentration it was already a challenge to get people to talk about football We achieved it, they played two games with a very great capacity, we achieved the victories and now we are little by little finding that balance,” Tomé stated to the SER microphones.
In this sense, the coach from Oviedo was happy “that the questions we are asked are about football, about the teams we are going to face, about the players who are called up for this FIFA date and about all the work that there is. behind this selection, which is a lot”.
Tomé advocated for “valuing what they are, with an entire institution that we have behind us, which is the Spanish Federation” and also for “being an example on the sporting side and also on the social side.” All of this in relation to the so-called ‘Rubiales case’, which broke out last August after the non-consensual kiss that the now former president of the RFEF gave to forward Jenni Hermoso during the World Cup trophy presentation.
Having turned the page on that episode, which ultimately cost Luis Rubiales his job and determined an electoral calendar for the presidency, Tomé now settles into the position of selector. “It is a privilege to have so much talent, it is a privilege to have so many professional soccer players capable of having what we need,” she remarked.
“We have analyzed Italy and Switzerland very well, it is something that we take into account when selecting. And now, looking at these three training sessions that we have done, we see that everyone wants to get into the eleven. So it is complex, we have a lot of variability and, Luckily, we have one more day,” he said.
“In all positions we have variability, in all positions we have capacity and there is maximum confidence in the 24, that in the end one more player joined, and we also make them see this,” Tomé continued in his speech.
“We have to look for what we need for Italy, which players give us what we need or how we can better occupy the spaces to combat that team and keep it in time for the 90 minutes. That is something we make them see, they are important. all,” he insisted on the matter.
Meanwhile, the current coach of the ‘Roja’ praised the adaptation to her appointment as head of the bench, replacing Jorge Vilda. “We are lucky that they pick up the concepts quickly, the video helps us a lot so that after training we can see those situations that we can reinforce and enhance,” she explained.
“Since I was told that I was going to be a coach, I was very clear about what I wanted. I feel that every coach within him has a view of football that must be felt. I feel it in a way, I already felt it as a player and it is the one that “I can transmit it to the players. I have tried to surround myself with people on the staff who will help me give maximum professionalism and that is where we are working to help these players become better every day,” he stressed.
“On the previous FIFA date, it seemed that without training we had managed to play well and win. But I also told them: ‘Don’t think that this is like that, it’s that you have a very great winning capacity, you have a very great talent and all that talent is we have to order,'” he recalled about the triumphs on matchdays 1 and 2 of the Nations League.
“The main difference is decision-making, which is where I am the most responsible, but I have a way of working that I think suits their way of being. And there we are lucky to have the best, it is putting it every day in training and then in the game,” Tomé added.
“I have always said that I consider myself a different person [a Vilda]. I have been lucky that the Federation believed that I could lead this team. I have done it with the utmost confidence, with great enthusiasm, with great professionalism and I appreciate that. The reason for whether one decision or another was made… I haven’t thought anything, I feel that I have tried to achieve things with work,” he commented.
“When I have had the role of second, I have tried to do it in the best way, in the conditions that were asked of me, and I feel calm with everything I have carried out. In addition, I have had the opportunity to learn and improve as coach, because at that time it was also the first time I worked as an assistant,” he recalled of his time with Vilda.
“I feel privileged and I think about the now and about trying to express my ideas, my way of working and help these players to be better every day by winning,” Tomé reiterated before detailing again how the agreements of Olive.
“At that moment we needed to talk, I believe that I was sincere with them and that they were also sincere with us. The basis of being able to resolve the things that existed is by communicating them. And I believe that they know me on a human level, they know me on a human level. professional level as well and, well, that situation of lack of communication, of lack of understanding arose,” he told the SER microphones.
“We talked and the truth is that we managed to get ahead, train and then play the games, which was what we needed; and we were at the level to be, in this window, with options to be in the Olympic Games,” he said, referring to the victories first over Sweden and then against Switzerland.
But playing those duels seemed like a pipe dream at times. “I think they were things that were not clarified well, because I had spoken with the players. I had not spoken with all of them, I did not want to reveal which players I did and which players I did not; nor the content of those conversations. And I did feel that “It was my obligation to call the players,” he argued about including León and Guijarro.
“That meant that in the end we could see each other and be there, talk and tell each other everything. I also saw that it was in the media that I was away and those are things that the Federation never conveyed to me. The players came with that situation of confusion, of not knowing; but we were there, we talked and everything was resolved because it was seen that it was not a sports issue, it was seen that it was a situation that had surpassed us, that had to be resolved elsewhere and that is how it is how we solved and clarified it,” Tomé concluded.