The players of the Spanish women’s senior team reiterated on Monday night their refusal to respond to Montse Tomé’s call in a joint statement published through their social networks. In it, the players whose names appeared on the list announced hours before at the headquarters of the Spanish Federation by the new coach for the Nations League matches against Sweden and Switzerland, appealed to the reasons already given last Friday in the statement set signed by 39 professional footballers.
In the new statement, the soccer players point out that what was expressed in a previous statement “makes it clear and without any option for another interpretation” their “firm will not to be summoned for justified reasons” and that “these statements remain fully valid.”
The players clarify that “during the days following that statement” they want to “make public that nothing different from that has been transmitted to any member of the RFEF”, which is why they “expressly ask that the information transmitted publicly be rigorous”.
“We, as elite professional players and after everything that happened today, We will study the possible legal consequences to which the RFEF exposes us by putting ourselves on a list from which we had asked not to be called for reasons already explained publicly and in more detail to the RFEF, and thereby making the best decision for our future and for our health,” they add.
Likewise, they consider that the call “it has not been carried out in a timely manner, in accordance with art. 3.2 of Annex I of the Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players of FIFA”so they understand that the RFEF “is not in a position” to demand that they “go to it.”
“We regret once again that our Federation places us in a situation that we would never have desired,” they conclude in their note.
