New Coach in Spain: Montse Tomé Out After Runner-Up End at Girls’s Euro

Spain’s ladies’s nationwide group is making a training change two weeks after reaching the ultimate of the 2025 UEFA Girls’s Euro. 

Montse Tomé is not going to have her contract renewed and can be changed by former participant Sonia Bermúdez, the Spanish soccer federation mentioned Monday.

One other former Spain participant, Iraia Iturregi, was named the group’s second coach.

The choice was made by the federation’s board members after Tomé led Spain to the Euro 2025 last, which it misplaced to England in a penalty shootout on July 27.

“The board of administrators want to specific its gratitude for Montse Tomé’s work, professionalism and dedication in her numerous roles throughout her time as a member of the nationwide groups on the Spanish soccer federation, significantly throughout her time as nationwide group coach,” the federation mentioned.

Tomé changed former coach Jorge Vilda following the group’s World Cup title in 2023. She led Spain to the title of the inaugural Girls’s Nations League in 2024. Her present contract with the nationwide group was legitimate till the top of the month.

Tomé was the primary lady to teach the senior ladies’s group in Spain. She had been an assistant to Vilda in the course of the World Cup and was promoted within the fallout of former federation president Luis Rubiales’ nonconsensual kiss of participant Jenni Hermoso in the course of the World Cup’s awards ceremony in Australia.

Spain has loved some peace and stability since Rubiales was convicted of sexual assault for the kiss that ignited one of many worst crises in Spanish soccer.

The outrage surrounding the scandal led to widespread modifications and improved circumstances for the ladies’s nationwide group. Spanish society known as for extra help for girls, and sports activities officers in the end had been compelled to evaluate outdated protocols associated to the ladies’s squad.

Bermúdez was a Spain captain — with 63 appearances and 35 objectives internationally — and in addition performed for Barcelona and Atlético Madrid, amongst different golf equipment. She retired as a participant in 2020, and her first job as a coach was with a Actual Madrid youth group.

Bermúdez had been teaching the youth squads of Spain’s nationwide group. She was at present with the under-23 squad.

The board that made the choice was composed of 30 members, half of them ladies.

Spain’s subsequent match is in October within the semifinals of the Nations League.

Reporting by The Related Press. 

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