Barcelona midfielder Patri Guijarro - player of the match in the Women’s Champions League final at the weekend - insists she will not return to the Spain women’s team as things stand, just days out from the World Cup squad being named.
Patri was a central part of the Spain squad which featured at Euro 2022, where they reached the quarter-finals and lost to eventual winners England - but soon after the tournament, 15 players including then-injured club teammate Alexia Putellas, banded together to inform the Spanish Football Federation (Rfef) they would not be continuing for the national team. The group said at the time they were affected in terms of both “health” and “emotional state” by the methods of head coach Jorge Vilda and insisted they would not play again while he remained at the helm.
