21 of the 23 soccer players who summoned the national team coach Montse Tomé have shown their “will” to stay in the concentration of the world champion and will travel to Gothenburg to face Sweden at the start of the Nations League, as confirmed by the president of the Higher Sports Council (CSD), Víctor Francos.
“21 players have shown their willingness to stay, it is good news that the women’s team will play both games,” Francos told the media after meeting with the players for almost six hours in a hotel in the Valencian town of Oliva. The leader, who stressed that this meeting took place in a “friendly tone” and where all parties could “talk with absolute freedom”, he stressed that two players “have requested for reasons of lack of spirit and personal discomfort”, and that in any case it had been “agreed that the formula to be used does not entail sanctions“.
💣”TWO PLAYERS have asked to LEAVE the CONCENTRATION.”
✅”They will NOT be SANCTIONED and the rest have shown their willingness to STAY.”
VÍCTOR FRANCOS, president of the CSD, LIVE on @elchiringuitotv. pic.twitter.com/rrMtNu4N1j
— El Chiringuito TV (@elchiringuitotv) September 20, 2023
This puts an end to a very long and complicated day for the internationals called by Montse Tomé last Monday since a large number of them publicly insisted that their position regarding Friday had not changed, when they made their resignation clear in a statement. to go with the national team if there were no deeper changes in the RFEF.
However, before the possibility of being sanctioned by the Sports Law in case of appearing, although they defended that the call had not complied “in a timely manner” with FIFA regulations, they finally decided to appear, although not in the City of Football of Las Rozas (Madrid) as is usually the case. usual.
Thus, in the midst of a lot of misinformation, those from Real Madrid (Misa Rodríguez, Tere Abelleira, Oihane Hernández, Olga Carmona and Athenea del Castillo) and Atlético de Madrid (Eva Navarro) gathered with Montse Tomé and her staff in a hotel in Madrid near the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport, from where they left after noon towards Valencia, specifically the town of Oliva.
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That was the place where the rest of the internationals traveled from different points, including forward Lucía García and defender Laia Aleixandri, who traveled from Manchester (England), while Esther González, who had to fly from the United States, She finally lost due to injury and was replaced by Cristina Martín-Prieto for a concentration where she had not scheduled training for Tuesday afternoon.
In the midst of the uncertainty a new problem appeared, that of delay of the plane that had to take the FC Barcelona players (Alexia Putellas, Mapi León, Irene Paredes, Patri Guijarro, Aitana Bonmatí, Cata Coll, Ona Batlle and Mariona Caldentey) from Barcelona and which caused the planned meeting with Víctor Francos to start at night and last until practically dawn on Wednesday.