Montse Tomé had a very bitter experience at the press conference in Gothenburg for the Sweden-Spain preview of the Nations League. The new coach appeared with bags under her eyes and a broken voice. She had to give many explanations about the falsehoods she said regarding the call (she then said that it had been a list agreed upon with the players after speaking with them) and she defended her professionalism at all times. When she was asked if she expected to continue after these two matches she simply said that she was confident. "As you know, I have been in the position for a short time. I have confidence. I have confidence in the work, I want this to be solved and we want to work."
Tomé's argument was always more or less the same: His problems go beyond sports. "The truth is that everything we are experiencing these days and that we have been experiencing for a long time is something that escapes the professional and the sporting. In that assessment we all know what happened on the day of the final. We should be celebrating "a victory and everything that happened after was very unpleasant. The players are professionals and have trained well."
And he continued: "Since I started in office in this exceptional situation, I tried to focus on sports, to think about what I could control. Form my staff and think about how we could plan this for Sweden and Switzerland. Things happen that I can't. I control, that other people control. I feel that there has been a failure in communication. I have always wanted to protect the players, be with them, be with Jenni, who has had a bad time and also her teammates. I have shared many things with her and "I empathize with her in everything. I have to be professional and get a call. There we chose those who were, for us, the best."
Montse Tomé defended herself again: "The intention was always to help, to understand them. I don't know if it was the failure of communication, due to lack of time or what. These are things that escape sports," she insisted.
The coach denied that she lied in the press conference of her presentation about the call: "It was a mistake in interpretation. They asked me if I had spoken with players and I said yes, because I have spoken with them. Not with all of them. , but yes with some of them. I'm not going to say with whom. I'm not going to say what I've talked about. It's part of the personal and professional secret that I don't like to breach."
Tomé defended himself again in the following response: "Things have been mixing and my intention was always to help. I am a coach, but I feel like a player; I have been one for many years and above all I feel like a person. I believe that everything that has come out , that if the players don't love us, I don't feel that, I haven't heard it from them and it's something we have to take care of. Contrast the information that is published a little, let that be true. I think we can all make mistakes, but We all try to be as professional as possible. My feeling from what I experience is that they are not going through a good time; it is not our best start either. It is the situation we have. Unfortunately, what we saw is unacceptable. We position ourselves with Jenni and with the players," he repeated.
Regarding the changes in the Federation that the players demand, the coach threw the ball out: "There are situations outside of what is sports and that I cannot control or execute. In the end we know what the problem was. Those changes that are requested do not form part of what I can manage or direct.
