Spain’s women’s team will hold showdown talks in the next days over ending their self-imposed exile in the fallout of the Luis Rubiales furore, it has been revealed.
Olga Carmona, who scored the winner against England in the World Cup final, has opened the door on 80 players ending their decision on refusing to play for the national team in protest at the way the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) was run.
Rubiales has resigned as RFEF president over his kiss on Jenni Hermoso at the World Cup ceremony, with team manager Jorge Vilda sacked and Montse Tomé becoming the first woman to manage the Spanish team.
“There have been several changes. We have a new coach, but first of all we have to wait for the next squad and see what happens. Rubiales’ resignation is very recent and we will have to talk amongst ourselves and see what happens,” Carmona told Spanish TV programme El Hormiguero.
Tomé is due to announce her squad ahead of fixtures scheduled against Sweden and Switzerland next week in the Nations League. It is the first matches for Spain since winning the World Cup in Australia when Carmona scored the only goal in the final, then found out after the final whistle that her father had passed away.
“It was a day of many emotions. I didn’t know anything, my family made the decision not to tell me anything until everything happened and that’s how it was. I was lucky to score the goal, to win the World Cup, but as soon as I arrived at the airport everything turned, and the truth is that I have no words to describe what I felt at that moment,” she said.
“It was an accumulation of emotions that I am just remembering even now, and it is difficult for me because they are mixed feelings, feelings that I cannot explain with words, and I went from being at the top to feeling terrible.
“I was as happy as I could be. I wanted to be with my teammates at the Madrid river because it was a moment, and I knew that my father would have liked me to have been on that stage, so I did it for that reason. And I tried to enjoy it as much as possible.”
