{"id":62976,"date":"2023-09-18T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/18\/this-is-insane-spanish-star-cut-from-team-after-wc-kiss\/"},"modified":"2023-09-18T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T21:07:00","slug":"this-is-insane-spanish-star-cut-from-team-after-wc-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/18\/this-is-insane-spanish-star-cut-from-team-after-wc-kiss\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This is insane\u2019: Spanish star cut from team after WC kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Spanish star Jenni Hermoso has been cut from the Spanish national squad as a result of the World Cup kiss scandal. <\/p>\n

New coach Montse Tome made her first big decisions as Spain women\u2019s coach when she named a surprising squad for upcoming Nations League matches against Sweden and Switzerland.<\/p>\n

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The squad is in chaos with 15 of the World Cup-winning group selected, despite most of the players still being on strike from the national team.<\/p>\n

Midfielder Hermoso was in the eye of the storm that shook Spanish football over the past month after former Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales forcibly kissed her, with 39 players striking from the national team despite his resignation and coach Jorge Vilda\u2019s sacking.<\/p>\n

Vilda, disliked by some of the players, was dismissed as the Spanish football federation tried to make changes demanded by over 80 players, striking in the wake of former president Rubiales\u2019s kiss on midfielder Jenni Hermoso\u2019s lips in Sydney.<\/p>\n

After Rubiales resigned, 39 players including the vast majority of the World Cup squad, said they still did not plan to return until further changes were made.<\/p>\n

However Tome called up many of them, saying she was convinced they would come and hailing their professionalism.<\/p>\n

Tome said she left Hermoso out of the squad to protect her. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are with Jenni on everything, and with all the players,\u201d added the new coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best way to protect her is like this, I have worked five years with her.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Jenni Hermoso has filed a complaint.<\/span>Source: Supplied<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jenni Hermoso has played in Mexico since the World Cup, but has been left out of the national team. Photo by Hector Vivas\/Getty Images.<\/span>Source: Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Two-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner Alexia Putellas was named in the squad by Tome, along with Barcelona teammates Mapi Leon and Patri Guijarro, a duo who were not at the World Cup because of another protest against the RFEF and Vilda.<\/p>\n

Tome said she\u2019d spoken to the World Cup players on strike before she selected them. <\/p>\n

\u201cI trust in that the players are professionals, they have just become champions of the world, they love the national team, and I know they will be here with us tomorrow,\u201d Tome told a news conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday we start a new era in the national team, that\u2019s something good, beautiful, all players have the chance to be here and all have the same opportunities.\u201d <\/p>\n

Swiss forward Ana Crnogorcevic, who signed for Atletico Madrid this summer from Barcelona labelled Tome\u2019s squad \u201cdisrespectful\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is insane… how can you threaten your own players like this… call them to the national team, when they said they want clear changes before they come back!\u201d wrote Crnogorcevic on social media platform X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is soooo disrespectful… clearly they don\u2019t care… and they dont allow them to make their own decision.\u201d Previously, while Rubiales was still in charge, the RFEF reminded the striking players that they would be obliged to come if called up, regardless of their strike.<\/p>\n

How Spanish football was brought to its knees<\/b><\/p>\n

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New coach of Spain’s female football team Montse Tome. Photo by Thomas COEX \/ AFP.<\/span>Source: AFP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rubiales kissed Hermoso during the medal ceremony after Spain beat England in Sydney on August 20, provoking a fierce worldwide backlash.<\/p>\n

Expected to resign at an emergency RFEF meeting, Rubiales railed against false feminism and said he was going nowhere.<\/p>\n

Vilda, Tome and Spain\u2019s men\u2019s coach Luis de la Fuente were criticised for applauding Rubiales\u2019s fiery discourse.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had to come because they told us to \u2014 the things that happened there I didn\u2019t feel part of,\u201d said Tome.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe two times I applauded were when he said that we are all world champions and when they told me that I was going to be the sporting director.\u201d <\/p>\n

Rubiales\u2019 speech led to 81 women\u2019s players going on strike and most of Vilda\u2019s coaching staff, including his assistant Tome, offering their resignations to the RFEF.<\/p>\n

Vilda was sacked on September 5, with Rubiales resigning on September 10, later appearing in Spain\u2019s top criminal court as part of an investigation into sexual assault and coercion regarding the kiss.<\/p>\n

Despite their departures, 39 players, including the vast majority of the World Cup winners, had said they would not come back until further conditions were met, including reshaping certain departments within the RFEF, currently led by interim president Pedro Rocha.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlayers are urged to join this change led by the federation, understanding that the changes that must continue have to be solid and fair,\u201d said the RFEF earlier Monday in a statement.<\/p>\n

It appeared a last-ditch attempt to lure the players back.<\/p>\n

The RFEF said \u201cdifficult decisions\u201d had been made in recent days and the process would continue, as the federation itself \u201cis aware of the need to make structural changes\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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