Jorge Vilda's 'Spain B' knows how to compete

While at Wembley 90,000 people attended the friendly preparation for the 2023 World Cup between England, the European champion and the United States, the world champion, Manolo Escobar played at the El Arcángel stadium in Córdoba.

"Long live Spainaaaa, Spain is the best".

At Wembley, presentation with light and color games.

In Córdoba, a video scoreboard and the stands with a soulless appearance.

The Federation reported on Thursday that 5,500 tickets had been sold for the friendly between Spain and Sweden -number three in the world ranking-, but there were no more than 4,000 people this Friday in the field, on the outskirts of the city, very close to where the Fair is organized.

Spain tied at one (Blomqvist's goal in the 13th minute and Marta Cardona's goal in the 83rd minute) and the public address system turned up the volume when some whistles were heard towards Jorge Vilda, the coach, at the moment in which the

read the lineups.

In networks, he followed the hashtag #VildaOUT.

In the stands, meanwhile, they chanted "yes you can, yes you can".

“

team under construction” as its coach defines it, was able to compete against Sweden —which did not bring out its gala team— and calms the tensions experienced in recent weeks.

This is how Vilda analyzed it: “I liked a lot of things, how they competed.

We started with certain doubts, because we played against a great team.

Then the team broke loose.

The second part was ours, we dominated.

We have shown that there is a team”.

And she added: “We are starting to put together a team and that takes time, but they have shown that being 100% we can compete with any team.

The important thing was to compete and that they felt good”.

Marta Cardona was asked if she would have liked this to have been different.

“It is not up to me to answer that, it has been as it has been, we have to look at how the team is now”.

She also said that she didn't hear Vilda's whistles: "I'm not saying this to look good, or to avoid the question, it's that there were a lot of people cheering and when you're focused, you don't hear anything from the outside."

Vilda commented that she is left with how the stands “has vibrated” and how “it has encouraged when it was necessary”.

She was asked if this Friday's tie makes her come out more reinforced in her position.

“It is not a question of posture, but of defending the Spain shirt, of players who smile, who give one hundred percent, who are like sponges, who absorb, this is a team that does not have any type of mental reserve.

It is football in its purest form, it is what we have been living, ”he replied.

Can this tie give peace to the selection?, they insisted.

"It gives me peace of mind to feel supported by the Federation and by the coaching staff, I have been with that peace of mind since 2015. Peace of mind is knowing that there is a methodology and philosophy that has been followed year after year."

The Archangel has a capacity for 21,822 spectators.

The women's team gathered no more than 4,000.

Vilda did start making calls for people to come to the stadium last Friday the 30th, when she announced the list of the 23 that make up the

Spanish selection.

They have stopped attending the call of the coach 15 internationals, who on Thursday 29 sent a letter to the Federation to communicate that they were resigning as long as "a" situation "is not reversed" that, according to what they say, affects them "in an important way" in their “emotional state” and their “health”.

They are Patri Guijarro, Sandra Paños, Claudia Pina, Aitana Bonmatí, Mapi León and Mariona Caldentey, from Barcelona;

Ainhoa ​​Moraza and Lola Gallardo, from Atlético;

Amaiur Sarriegi and Nerea Eizagirre, from the Royal Society;

Laia Aleixandri and Leila Ouahabi, from City;

Ona Batlle and Lucía García, from United;

and Andrea Pereira, from America.

They are joined by Jenni Hermoso and Irene Paredes, who did not send the letter but were not summoned, and Alexia Putellas, who is injured, but who showed her support for her companions.

They still do not go out to explain the reasons for the discomfort and the problems that they consider have led them to resign.

The more time passes, the more the conflict and the distances between the two parties lengthen.

The closer the World Cup draws, the fewer reasons to fix the situation.

A situation that Vilda described as "world ridiculous".

The tie against Sweden gives him arguments not to look back.

In the official Twitter account of the women's team, meanwhile, any tweet that talks about the coaching staff is used to add "elite".

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