Crisis in Spanish women’s football: two players are already leaving the qualifying camp

There is no respite in the conflict between the Spanish national team players and their federation. Although this Wednesday is the first training camp after the World Cup, which has two matches scheduled, two players left the team this Wednesday morning by order of new coach Montse Tome.

They are Mapi Leon and Patry Guijarro, two Barcelona players who did not participate in this summer’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. They were among fifteen players who emailed the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) before the competition, saying they were withdrawing from selection due to the leadership of former coach Jorge Vilda.

“It is a reality that for Patry and me the situation is different from the rest of my teammates,” explained Mapi Leon, who spoke to the press while leaving the training camp with her teammate and referring to the situation they both are in were loaded. from 2022, and this boycott of the national team, which for them has been going on for several months. “It was the wrong way to come back. We’re not in the right mental state to go back. It’s a process. » Both players apparently received permission from their federation to leave the training camp without any sanctions.

“Being here, the way things happened doesn’t allow you to be in good mental health,” Guijarro continued. A new development after a few incredible days of the Spanish selection, when new coach Monse Thomé called up the majority of the world champions… despite their boycott of the selection. Jennifer Hermoso, who was not called, also issued a press release Monday.

Originally scheduled to take place in Madrid, the bizarre meeting was moved at the last minute by the Spanish federation to Valencia, causing a number of logistical problems for the players who had to travel there during the day on Tuesday. The selected players, and in particular FC Barcelona players such as Mapi Leon and Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas, did not fail to express their dissatisfaction with the current situation. On Tuesday evening, the Catalan club also sent their women’s team general manager Marquel Zubizarreta and team psychologist Marc Cellares to personally accompany the eight players. Blaugrana selected.