I Don’t Understand Being Dropped From Spain’s Nations League Squad For My Own Protection – Jenni Hermoso

Spain footballer, Jenni Hermoso has come out to hit back at suggestions from Spain’s new women’s head coach, Montse Tome that she wasn’t picked for the upcoming Nations League squad in an effort to protect her.

She recently had her say via a press statement, and fans have been reacting.

According to her, the recent protection claim is nothing but another strategy of division and manipulation to intimidate and threaten her and her teammates with legal repercussions and economic sanctions amid the ongoing kiss controversy.

Hermoso added that she is sorry to react to yet another unfortunate situation caused by the people who continue to make decisions within the RFEF.

Tome had said, “We are with Jenni in everything and with all the players, the best way to help them is to be with them and listen to them. The best way to protect her is like this, I have worked a lot with her.”

Hermoso added, “Protect me from what?

Let’s be clear; a claim was made today stating that the environment within the federation would be safe for my colleagues to rejoin yet at the same press conference it was announced that they were not calling me as a means to protect me.

Protect me from what? And from whom? We have been searching for weeks – months, even – for protection from the RFEF that never came.

The people who now ask us to trust them are the same ones who today disclosed the list of players who have asked not to be called up

The players are certain that this is yet another strategy of division and manipulation to intimidate and threaten us with legal repercussions and economic sanctions. It is yet more irrefutable proof that shows that even today, nothing has changed.

I want to once again show my full support to my colleagues who have been caught by surprise and forced to react to another unfortunate situation caused by the people who continue to make decisions within the RFEF.

This is why we are fighting and why we are doing it in this way.”