Jorge Vilda (Madrid, 41 years old) speaks in the feminine plural.
“We have never left leftovers…”, he says.
His 13 years at the head of the women's soccer teams have made him assimilate the inclusive language.
This Friday the European Championship begins and the coach will sit on the bench with a group that he has sculpted in attacking play since he marked an era in youth.
Today Vilda is one of the architects of the emergence of women in football.
Question
.
For when a woman at the head of the senior team?
Answer
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Soon.
Women are going to enter men's soccer technical bodies and once they enter they will be highly valued and in great demand.
P.
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There will be a problem with the name.
We will not be able to call them the mister, which in English is, sir.
Or if?
R.
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The mister will be.
P.
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Sounds weird, but ok.
Any name?
R.
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Well, Montse Tomé, who is now my second coach, for example.
We have been working together for four years.
P.
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The boom in women's football has been sudden, why has it caught on now?
R.
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Many things have happened.
In four or five years several keys have been given: the institutions have invested, the media have provided visibility and dissemination on television, radio and newspapers.
From there, the best have been able to start living from it and the level increases, stadiums are filled, in lower categories they begin to win and today the absolute reaps those fruits.
P.
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Before getting paid, many of the soccer players must reconcile their passion with their life: the sacrifice is enormous.
R.
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In my team we have and have had biologists, graduates from INEF or Law and Medicine, aeronautical engineers, student teachers, I have to get what I say right.
They are not worth anything.
That is my challenge, I have to surprise them and I have been in this for 13 years in different categories, although with many, one look is enough for us.
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P.
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Do they arrive in high spirits at the European Championship?
R.
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Yes, that they are with morale in its fair measure is also something that I must take care of.
P.
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What is the fair measure of morality?
R.
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Have confidence but do not be confident.
We have never left leftovers.
Jorge Vilda, this Wednesday during training in Milton Keynes (United Kingdom).
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P.
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Has a conscientious job been done in football to break the gap and reach a normalization beyond what society lives?
R.
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I am glad that they are already recognized as footballers and that, in addition, they contribute values.
I was very excited the other day to play with the LGTBI flag.
That they advocate for that, for equality and sexual freedom or the percentages of bonuses, which the captains have worked hard.
There are no sexual taboos here.
It is normal to recognize different options.
P.
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Is there as much problem in women's football as in men's to recognize diverse sexual options?
R.
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No. There are no sexual taboos here.
It is normal to recognize different options.
P.
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When will we see a footballer come out of the closet?
R.
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I don't know, in the masculine it doesn't happen because they are more afraid of social reactions.
Perhaps because they think that shows weakness.
My players are brave, they will stop at nothing.
P.
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It is also clear that they, for money, do not do it.
R.
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They do it out of pure love for the sport, for very deep and very pure reasons.
Now they take advantage of the moment, enjoy it and sow so that those who come after know that they can do it.
Women pretend less, take less advantage of the picaresque
P.
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Do women cry less in football than men?
R.
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Women pretend less, they take less advantage of the picaresque, they are more noble.
That hasn't arrived yet and I hope it doesn't.
And when I see a game in which they start to shoot, I take it off.
And now more, with the VAR we are going to get worse in that.
Football is something else, in the English League, who pretends, they point it out.
P.
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But isn't football the art of deception?
R.
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Of deception no, of surprise yes.
Football is the art of surprising, not so much of deceiving and always within the rules
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