The soap opera of the fifteen players who have given up playing for the Spanish soccer team until the Federation agrees to dismiss the coach is one of the most radical exercises in subversion that the sport has ever known. For now, the federal entity has responded as expected from whoever holds the baton. Banishing the rebellious soccer players from future calls and reminding them that their thing is to run and kick as best as possible, but not decide who exercises them and how.
Neither gender nor number give or take away reasons. And since no details are known about the reasons that have pushed the soccer players to such a drastic position beyond the common places about the emotional discomfort that afflicts them for being under Jorge Vilda's orders, it is only possible to judge the episode in a way general. And from a bird's eye view, it would seem that the basket of the professionalization of women's football is still missing some wickers. One of them concerns the mentality of the players who have to assume that they are not a group of friends who stay to play ball because it is fun for them, but rather that they occupy a workplace integrated into a work structure in which each piece exercises some functions and not others.
Vilda can be the worst trainer in the world, even the rudest human imaginable in personal treatment. Does not matter. The obligation of a professional – as long as we are not talking about criminal behavior on the part of his superior – is to go to his job and fulfill his responsibilities. This does not prevent, of course, that in parallel they do everything possible to get rid of the rancher who has been lucky enough to be their boss, either because he is, or because the poor man is perceived as such.
There are things that female players should learn from their male teammates. One of them is the way to fire a coach when the trust and the relationship with the one who directs them are no longer possible to fix. It is enough to contaminate the low, adopt a lazy attitude and play disastrous games. Plenty for the public and journalism to do the rest and twist the will of the directors.
It will be said that this childishness of playing badly or without desire on purpose is even worse than what the players have done, if what it is about is preserving the good name of professionalism. Depends. You have to be very good at what you do to turn your work into a disaster without your intention being noticed. In professional football the unit of measurement is the results. Ladies take note of how to fire a technician. It has been invented for a long time.
