The Spanish Football Federation has made official the dismissal of Jorge Vilda as women's coach. Vilda was renewed directly and for four years (at a rate of half a million per season when he had been earning 180,000 euros) by Luis Rubiales during the grotesque assembly in which the former president announced that he was not going to resign.
42-year-old Jorge Vilda took command of the women's team in 2015, replacing Ignacio Quereda, who had been in charge for 27 years and led it to the World title in the last championship held in Australia.
"The coach has been key to the remarkable growth of women's football and leaves Spain as world champion and second in the FIFA ranking," the Federation said in a statement.
Vilda's relationship with her players was always tense. One year after the World Cup, she suffered a mutiny by her players, fifteen of whom resigned from the national team. After the World Cup, all the teams announced that they would not return to it as long as the team maintained the same sports structure.
Pedro Rocha, the interim president of the Federation, met this morning with Vilda to communicate the decision and this afternoon he will transfer it to Víctor Francos, the president of the Higher Sports Council (CSD), with whom he meets at the headquarters of the said body at 5:30 p.m.
