#SeAcabó: Diary of the Champions comes out on Netflix this Friday, November 1. The documentary of the Spanish women’s soccer teamwhich ranges from the ’15’ conflict, the victory in the World Cup, Luis Rubiales’ non-consensual kiss to Jenni Hermoso and, finally, the beginning of the restructuring of the RFEF, will clear up once and for all doubts about the players’ version in what happened in the biggest crisis in Spanish women’s football in memory.
“The triggering event was the Assembly of Luis Rubiales,” he explains in a conversation with 20 minutes Luis Calvo, content director of You First, about how the idea of documenting everything that happened came about. “We all expected him to resign, which was perhaps what was expected and logical, and apart from that he did what he did. At that moment we saw that history was inalienable for us“. The closeness with the great protagonists of the story was the other factor in wanting to tell what happened.
It has not been easy to get to this point, the moment in which the public will finally be able to listen to the footballers, the premiere of the documentary film. Because before the project was a reality there was many pressures that tried to prevent it from moving forward. “We cannot give clear names, but what is evident is that this was a story with very different points of view and very different opinions,” explains Calvo.
And he adds: “There are clubs that have a position Regarding the players, there was the Federationthe players’ environment, their family. One of the great difficulties and challenges of this project was to arrive at a unified and coherent story from many very different points of view. There was many people who did not want this to be told, or told in any other wayor that they talked only and exclusively about sports. “It was something repeatedly requested by all the agents in history.”
“We have had anxiety on the surface during these almost 15 months,” confesses Javier Martínez, director of Originals You First Sports. “We have perceived a lot of fear, in general, of possible reprisals to the sporting future of many players.. Some players have rejected the invitation to participate, we absolutely respect them, they clearly expressed to us that they did not feel comfortable facing a possible retaliation or ‘punishment’ in the future, despite the fact that the institution is changing as seen in that pact after Oliva . But it is true that there are many who continue to express it: ‘we are afraid today,’ she assures this newspaper.
In a documentary that will not feature any testimony from the RFEF, which was invited to participate, but rejected the offer because they saw “that it was not the time,” Martínez explains that the message sought to be conveyed is “simply give them a voice, so that they could speak freely and explain themselves in the freest possible way and without pressure”, with the aim that they could tell “that part that was not known”.
The reason? “Perhaps in that media apparatus, possibly articulated by the Federation and Rubiales, their message was diluted“, points out the director of Originals of You First Sports, who recognizes that they also want to “invite reflection, critical thinkingto have a broader perspective of a whole series of events that, today, It was very biased and it was very partial.“.