Spain's football federation (RFEF) is preparing to sack Jorge Vilda, who faced down a player mutiny to steer his team to World Cup glory, after he refused to resign in a scandal shaking the sport, an RFEF source said on Thursday.
The 42-year-old cut a sometimes isolated figure in Australia as his squad largely celebrated without him, and has now become embroiled in a backlash against RFEF president Luis Rubiales over aNow, a new RFEF board, constituted after the sport's world governing body FIFA suspended Rubiales, has agreed to work on terminating coach Vilda's contract, the source said.
Rubiales, while defiant, has little support after regional RFEF chiefs turned on him and urged him to step down.His tenure as coach of the women's team since 2015 was first publicly called into question last year when 15 national team players sent letters to the RFEF saying they would no longer play for Spain while he remained in charge.
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