Jorge Vilda, coach of the Spanish women's team, highlighted the importance of the next friendly matches against Netherlands and Mexico and assured that his footballers had “earned the right to play against the top selections of the world “.
“They are two rivals who are going to propose matches for us difficult, without a doubt. On the one hand, the Netherlands, which has a consolidated national team, with many connections between players who play together for their clubs. They come from winning to Germany and they are preparing for the Olympic Games, with extra motivation, they have to earn a place on the list and in the eleven “, he explained about the Dutch team, current European champion and world runner-up.
He stressed that the Netherlands has a “practical game“.” We could imagine to jackpot soon that it can make a combinatorial game, and it is not like that. He has achieved those great victories and to be where he is with a practical game that we have analyzed and we are going to try to raise our way of playing but at the highest level, the most essential way we have to understand football, “said Vilda, who pointed out that it will be a good guide to know where Spain is and where it can go.
“It is the current european champion and world runner-up, with high-quality players, but above all it is a team that is curdled, with a very repeated eleven, which is going to make it difficult for us in terms of how to defend and how we have to defend. If something identifies us, it is by making a high pressure, near the opposing goal for as long as we can without neglecting the back, “he explained.
As to Mexico, stated that it is a “team super competitive with very fierce players, who follow you, who score individually, who compete very well in matches, “which” will raise other problems“, with what he considered that” they are going to be two stimuli that even the players are asking for “.
“They love to play against the best possible opponents and opponents who offer different
problems so that we have to find solutions. It is the best way to evolve. They have earned the right to play against the best in the world, “he added.
Vilda remembered players who due to surgery or injury, or other reasons could not be on the list, such as Eva Navarro, Rocío Gálvez, Andrea Sánchez Falcón, Lucía García, Irene Guerrero or Cata Coll, as well as by Virginia Torrecilla, who has already started training with Atlético de Madrid after finishing treatment after being operated on for a head tumor, in his opinion “the best news” in recent days and for which they are “very happy and super excited “.
He assured that Spain has “great goalkeepers in all categories “, not only the three that he has mentioned, so” there is nothing closed “because there is” a lot of competition “and he considered that Lola gallardo, who barely has minutes at Olympique Lyon, does not go through an ideal situation, but has a “proven quality”.
“What he has done in his previous club and in the national teams is very good. That is why he continues to come. Even if he is not playing competitive minutes if she has to go out she's ready. It has a special personality. We hope that this situation will change in the future, it will be the best for her and for everyone, “he said.
Vilda indicated that the madridista Olga Carmona “He has been knocking on the doors of the senior team throughout the season.”
“If he has not entered before, it is because of how competitive each position is. He already showed it in inferior categories, in sub-19 gave great performance playing a little later. Now she is more on the side but she makes good decisions and the rival in front of her knows that it will be difficult to pass her. It seems to be older. This year it is having a great performance and evolution. With her work she is showing that she is ready to be here and debut, “she said.
Apart from pointing out that Marta Cardona, despite being 'touched' in the Real Madrid game against Deportivo Abanca, will not have no problem joining the selection, He argued that the also Madridista Maite Oroz, one of the absences compared to the previous call, may return at any time.
“We are very happy with what he did in the previous concentration, with what he is doing with his club game by game, but he says how complicated and compressed everything is to make this list. I know that Maite is going to continue working and playing well. That does not come now does not mean that the next call does not come. You always have to be alert. I know he will continue to perform at the highest level, “he added.
Questioned by a theoretical absence of relief in the spinal cord for Patri Guijarro, indicated that the Barcelona player “is in a very good moment of form, and is showing it in each game” with her team, although in her opinion “she is not the only one who can play as 6”, but that if “she had to play the 180 minutes of this concentration I would have no major problem“.
However, Vilda admitted that she closely follows other players in that square, such as Maitane López and Damaris Egurrola, who recently signed for Olympique Lyon, who might have their option as well.
On the other hand, the Spanish coach also announced that in the next few days the U19 national team between April 5 and 7 and at sub'23 between the 10th and the 12th to continue working with young values.