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Madrid, Spain – 10th June 2025
1. 00:00 SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Montse Tomé, Spanish National Team coach:
(on Jenni Hermoso not being on the list)
"We have assessed her year in Tigres, we’ve talked to her coach several times, and we’ve basically done what we need to do in order to decide on the players. In this specific case, we have a lot of other players available in her position: Patri, Zubieta, Alexia, Aitana, Vicky, Mariona, Pina… It is hard, it is very hard to be among the 23, but we’ve been professional regarding her and the others, and this is our decision."
2. 00:38 SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Montse Tomé, Spanish National Team coach:
"Alexia (Putellas) is pure competition, she’s ambition, she’s power. And she’s the captain because she instills all that onto the rest. She plays to win. She has gone through some rough times and she’s managed to turn the situation around, and that’s because she’s so certain about what she wants. She’s had a great year: many goals, many assists. She’s a player that we want to have with us, we want to take care of her and we want to learn from her."
3. 01:17 SOUNDBITE SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Montse Tomé, Spanish National Team coach:
"This is a good time for the team. This season we’ve played many games in different stadiums and we’ve enjoyed every bit of it. We have a great team, very talented players, and we do feel a good synergy, we do feel trust in each other both on and off the pitch. And well, that’s what a team is about."
4. 01:56 SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Montse Tomé, Spanish National Team coach:
"We can not compete in fear. We compete with excitement, with ambition, with good energy. We are not afraid."
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DURATION: 02:06
STORYLINE:
Spain’s squad for the Women’s European Championship does not include Jenni Hermoso, the player who was kissed without her consent by the former president of the Spanish soccer federation in the awards ceremony of the 2023 World Cup.
The kiss led to a guilty verdict for sexual assault for Luis Rubiales earlier this year.
Spain stars Alexia Putellas and Aitana Bonmati were among the 25 players called up by coach Montse Tomé on Tuesday ahead of the tournament in Switzerland.
The training camp will begin next Thursday in Spain, with players from Barcelona and Atletico Madrid — who participated in the final of the Copa de la Reina on Saturday, due to report Sunday.
The team will play a friendly against Japan near Madrid on June 27, and two days later will travel to Switzerland ahead of its Euro debut against Portugal on July 3. The final roster will be 23 players.
The other nations in Spain’s Euro 2025 group are Italy and Belgium.
Hermoso, who plays for Mexican club Tigres, has not been called up for national duty since friendlies against Italy and Canada last October. She had played in the Olympic tournament in Paris, when Spain finished fourth.
Hermoso, the all-time leading scorer for Spain’s national team with 57 goals in 123 matches, was left out of the squad right after the scandal broke, when Tomé said she was protecting the player. Hermoso was back with the squad after that, but the coach had said after the Olympics that a new cycle was beginning in the national team.
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