“I didn’t expect more support. “Each one is aware of what he does and what he does not do,” Aitana Bonmatí lamented yesterday on the program ‘Salvados’ about the protection received by the Spanish national team footballers, during the ‘Rubiales case’. The Blaugrana midfielder’s statements have gained greater strength when compared to Dani Carvajal’s opinion on this matter: “I don’t know what they can refer to, whether to support more or less,” she declared yesterday in a mixed zone after the qualifying match for the Euro 2024 between Spain and Norway, in Oslo.
“What has happened has happened and they are restructuring what they believe or do not feel comfortable within their environment in the Federation. They are trying to restructure all the staff, marketing, communication, etc. We are focused on what we have to do, which is to win and continue doing our thing,” said the Real Madrid right-back.
Aitana thanked in LaSexta the footballers who publicly showed their support in the summer for the world champions and was hopeful regarding the changes required in the RFEF organizational chart: “I would like to think that everything that was discussed and we committed to will happen. , but if we have stood up twice, why not a third?”
In September, the highest body of Spanish football promised structural changes to the players who considered Luis Rubiales’ farewell as president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation insufficient. In this sense, Bonmatí preferred to continue maintaining “privately” the negotiations with the RFEF, which he hopes will be on the right track, thanks to the intervention of the Higher Sports Council (CSD).
However, he regretted that his World Cup triumph had been “covered up”: “It makes me angry. If this serves to leave a good legacy and better conditions, it will have been worth it even if it is this way,” he clarified.
The Catalan midfielder spoke about why they did not feel “safe” in the concentrations with the national team, as a result of Rubiales’ kiss to Jenni Hermoso: “That people who have to defend the rights of the players turn against it, it is not very “surely let’s say.” Aitana also did not want to delve into Rubiales’ alleged coercion of his partner, since the case was in judicial proceedings: “You cannot talk about this very delicate issue. “I don’t want to interfere in anything that could affect ‘Jenni’, since it is a process that is not quick and I would like to respect her 100%.”
The midfielder also addressed the conflict of ‘Las 15’, a moment “more negative than positive”: “We felt that when we went to the national team, instead of enjoying, we suffered. “There was a lot to do,” she said. Although it was not “an easy decision,” Aitana was one of the soccer players who decided to return to La Roja to play in the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand this summer.
In this regard, the best player of the year in Europe does not understand how there can be a law that forces soccer players to go with the national team and mentioned the events that occurred, starting with Montse Tomé’s first call-up: “We were forced by law “When we were saying that we didn’t want to go, if there were no changes.”
“We spoke to her later and she said that she had spoken with some players. She didn’t call me personally. We found out through the list. I didn’t expect to be on it because we had made a statement saying that we didn’t want to go,” he stressed. the call from the national team to the world champions.
“Today I still go to the fields and he asked me how we can play in these conditions. We are talking about the first professional division… but in reality only the name has changed, in terms of facts I don’t see any changes,” Bonmatí stated about the situation. current women’s football.
Regarding salary inequality with men, he commented that it is “obvious”, but “we do not ask to earn the same as them because we do not believe it should be that way.” “We ask for decent conditions and a commitment that shows that there are results. In the World Cup there have been many benefits and Barça earns a lot of money with us,” he said.
