Announce the professionalization of women’s football with the creation of the They League. This was the last act of Irene lozano as president of the Higher Sports Council (CSD), before Pedro Sanchez please the presidents of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) and the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and replace it with Jose Manuel Franco. What was not included in the plans of Blanco and Rubiales is that this Saturday the President of the Government did the same with the Minister of Culture and Sports, Jose Manuel Rodriguez Uribes, who replaces a Miquel Iceta whose only relationship with the sport that is known to him, beyond his liking to dance, is that his great-uncle was a player of the Athletic Club and in 1951, selector of Spain.
In addition, there is the circumstance that in the presentation of the aforementioned Liga Ellas the still first vice president of Sánchez was present, Carmen Calvo, who has also been relieved of his position and will not appear in that long-awaited photo with footballers who, in theory, next season will be professionals. That is neither of the two women that promoted to the four winds the professionalization of women’s football are already in the Government, which is but one more demonstration of the political, propagandistic or ideological use, as you prefer, that Sánchez makes of women’s sports in general, and soccer in particular.
Kike Marin
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“The professionalization of women’s football will be a great step on the long road to equality,” said Rodríguez Uribes in his appearance before the Plenary of the Senate, in response to a question from the senator of the Socialist Parliamentary Group for Álava, Julia Maria Liberal, who regretted the scarce media coverage that women’s sport has and had no better idea than to ask that they be forced to do so, with how counterproductive that would be, especially as long as footballers continue to be the least important thing to them.
The last example of this being so is the case of Yolanda Aguirre, the former Santa Teresa goalkeeper who had to leave Spain when I had several offers to play in the First Iberdrola, before Iberdrola League and soon Liga Ellas. A competition that, in addition to seeing what the role of electricity is, will be fully subsidized and in this way it will be difficult to know if it is sustainable. Especially while the RFEF tries to oversee a management that, like it or not, corresponds to the clubs, that is, LaLiga, which is the one that has the money to maintain it, in the good sense of the word. Special mention deserves the Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE), clearly delivered to the employer and responsible precisely for cases like the aforementioned Yolanda Aguirre.
On March 2, the members of the Joint Committee Women’s Football Collective Agreement they learned the names of the soccer players who, by virtue of the controversial article 20 of the aforementioned agreement, had been included in the compensation list. In total there were 15 and, as we reported in El Confidencial, the most surprising was see Ona Battle again as a player from Levante UD and again with no less than 500,000 euros, when the Catalan left last summer for Manchester United. His ex-partner Eva navarro, with 250,000 euros, appeared in second place, after having been forced to renew with the granota club.
Besides these two, Berta Pujadas, from Valencia Féminas, with 100,000 euros, and the rest between 15,000 euros Ana Velazquez Y Judith Luzuriaga, from EDF Logroño, the 25,000 Macarena Portales Y Silvia Rubio, from Madrid CFF, the 30,000 Ariadna Rovirola, from the Santa Teresa CD, the 45,000 Cristina Cubedo Pitarch, of Valencia Féminas CF, and the 50,000 of Cecilie Stomach Struch Y Paula Fernandez, from Rayo Vallecano in Madrid, Rodriguez Sea Ribbon Y Mayra Tatiana Ramirez, from Sporting Club Huelva, Ruth Alvarez, from SD Eibar, and Yolanda Aguirre, from the Santa Teresa CD.
Precisely, the latter, the goalkeeper of a team that has descended and that had offers to continue playing in Spain and debut in the Ellas League, has been forced to go to play abroad, as happened to the aforementioned Ona last year. Battle oa Damaris Egurrola, who even denounced the Compensation List in the National Court together with the Footballers union ON, who not only recognized the mistake made in the negotiations of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, but also fought to amend it, although paradoxically he encountered opposition from AFE.
The defenselessness of the AFE ‘union’
Yoli Aguirre (Daimiel, 10-23-1998) is not affiliated with any union, but, like other footballers who were AFE, has seen how the refusal of the lawyer of this union, Maria Jose Lopez, aligned for a long time with the bosses, has forced him to take his issue individually and not collectively and to do so socially. And of course, just as predicted Enrique Lorenzo, the lawyer for Footballers ON, Yoli has been given ftrial date for May 20, 2022.
Just as Moses Trillo, from the agency BePlayer, assures that he has done everything in his power to try to keep his client in Spain, “where we had several offers”, the goalkeeper herself assures El Confidencial that “I have spent some quite complicated months, with the uncertainty of not knowing what could happen”. “I would have liked to continue playing in the Spanish League, continuing with my career in Spanish football was my priority, but, well, it couldn’t be and now I’m very excited to go to Italy,” says Yoli.
In this way, the goalkeeper announced a few days ago her departure from Santa Teresa de Badajoz, a team with which she achieved two promotions to the Iberdrola League and that this campaign has not been able to remain in the highest category of Spanish women’s football. After four seasons with Badajoz, Yoli, who had previously played for FF La Solana and Daimiel, has signed for one season with an option for another with Naples. “It is a new project in a new country. It means leaving my comfort zone and, inside the bad, I am super happy and I already want to travel to Italy and start training with my new team, although I insist that I would have liked to continue playing in Spain, but the circumstances have not been right “, sentence resigned.
Opinion Kike Marin
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Yolanda Aguirre will compete like this in the A league, in the ranks of a Neapolitan team that last year was tenth. The concierge, international with the lower categories of Spain, He had a great season in the Badajoz team despite the team’s relegation to the straight alloy and he played 31 First Iberdrola games, all as a starter. In Italy it will coincide with Spanish players like Veronica Boquete (Milan), Paloma Lazaro (Rome) or Adriana martin (Lazio). Yes, it seems incredible that while in Spain there is talk of professionalizing women’s football, Spanish players have to pack their bags to play in other countries. And this is where the question arises: Will the Minister Iceta be another one that dances?
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