{"id":458281,"date":"2023-09-05T19:16:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T15:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458281"},"modified":"2023-09-05T19:16:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T15:16:53","slug":"vilda-sacked-as-spains-coach-following-rubiales-kiss-gate-scandal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/vilda-sacked-as-spains-coach-following-rubiales-kiss-gate-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Vilda sacked as Spain&#8217;s coach following Rubiales &#8216;kiss-gate&#8217; scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Vilda has been sacked as Spain&#8217;s women football coach, just two weeks after lifting the World Cup, following the infamous &#8220;kiss-gate&#8221; scandal between president Luis Rubiales and Jenni Hermoso.<\/p>\n<p>The incident received a major public outburst and as a consequence Vilda&#8217;s coaching staff left the team and 81 players refused to play until Rubiales received a suspension.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: The Spanish Football Federation have announced that they have sacked women&#39;s team manager, Jorge Vilda. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7efayTr9Zu\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/7efayTr9Zu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/1699063305300836445?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old refused to resign, forcing FIFA to step in on the matter, giving him provisional ban from football.<\/p>\n<p>Vilda has been seen as a close friend to Rubiales and the speculations were he will quickly follow suit, even tough the Spanish federation didn&#8217;t specify the reasons behind the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Vilda, who had been in charge of the national team since 2015, survived a player &#8216;revolt&#8217; in September 2022, when the RFEF released a statement revealing 15 players had submitted identical emails saying they would not play for Vilda unless &#8220;significant&#8221; concerns over their &#8220;emotional state&#8221; and &#8220;health&#8221; were addressed.<\/p>\n<p>Vilda led Spain in 108 matches, winning 75 and seeing his team reach the European Championship 1\/4 finals both in 2017 and 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Vilda has been sacked as Spain&#8217;s women football coach, just two weeks after lifting the World Cup, following the infamous &#8220;kiss-gate&#8221; scandal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":458282,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21086,16913],"news_category":[14236,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[21087,18442],"acf":{"announce":"The 42-year-old was given his marching orders by the Spanish FA","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458283,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458281\/revisions\/458283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458281"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458281"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}