Spanish women's soccer coach Vilda fired in wake of Rubiales kissing scandal

Now breaking news coming out of Spain where the football association there has sacked the women's coach Jorge Vilda. For more on this breaking news we can talk to our presenter Andy Richardson. I mean this is a saga that has spiralled out of control and the Spanish coach wasn't the one that committed the kiss so why has he been fired? Yeah he's a big ally of a bit of context for everyone this comes off the back of Luis Rubiales the Federation president kissing Jenny Hermoso the World Cup win on the lips without her consent after their World Cup win an action which is completely overshadowed the team's success on the pitch. Jorge Vilda the coach of the women's team a big ally and friend and staunch supporter of Rubiales when the Football Federation held an extraordinary general meeting at which it was thought Rubiales would step down when in fact he got up and defended his position Rubiales was supported by Vilda at that meeting. Yesterday we had the men's team the Spanish men's team issuing a statement saying they were appalled by what Rubiales had done and how it had taken away from the success of the women's team so the pressure was growing and Vilda has now lost his job as part of the wider reforms that the Federation presidents had promised to bring in. There was a meeting of the the Spanish Federation in the wake of all this and it was very telling that of the 140 members meeting only six were women and this was one of the things they promised was going to change and really it seemed that his position was untenable. Also bearing in mind there'd been so many complaints about Vilda from the players in the build-up to the World Cup 12 of Spain's leading players didn't make it to the tournament because they'd fallen out with the coach they said the training conditions were unacceptable that the atmosphere around the squad wasn't right. The Federation at that point backed Vilda 12 leading players did not go to the World Cup because of discontent with the coach and with everything that's happened subsequently and the fact that we see now that it wasn't just an isolated incident a moment of madness on the pitch there was systemic problems within the Football Federation. Vilda really had to go despite bringing the World Cup to his country. This obviously now perhaps puts more pressure on the investigation around Luis Rubiales because obviously FIFA are involved now. How does this play out because as you say it's tarnished the whole victory by the by the ladies team and has put Spain in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. Yeah and I think what it's I think the reason it's become such a global story not just a Spanish football story is that so many women involved in sports can look at what happened to Hermosa look at what happened under under Vilda with those players and they can relate to it. There was a survey done by women in sports in the UK which is an umbrella organization representing lots of women involved in football and they said that 80 percent of women had faced discrimination in the workplace on the football pitch but that only around 20 percent felt empowered to actually complain about it or do anything about it. So I think it's become a an issue that has has got global resonance. Rubiales officially is still in the job he's a powerful man at UEFA, the European governing body who's still not really come out and condemned his behavior. He's a vice president there he's a friend of the UEFA president Alexander Cheffer and at the moment he's still in a job but FIFA the world governing body have suspended him from all football related activity. There is an investigation ongoing there's investigations ongoing within Spain as well so at the moment the Football Federation is going to allow those processes to play out before they take any action against him. How does this all then impact Andy really on the wider topic that most probably teams across Europe and their club chairman are actually discussing you know the way that the female players are being treated within the huge teams like Bayern Munich and Arsenal and Manchester United I mean you know there's there's no scandal there at the moment but inevitably chairman, team managers, coaches everybody's going to be asked is everything okay in our house do we have something to worry about? Absolutely and I think that's what that's what's come out over the over the last over the last few days and weeks since since this all happened that it's not just an isolated issue this is not just Rubiales having a moment of euphoria and getting carried away on a on a platform in front of front of the world this was just emblematic of far wider issues. We see in Spain there was the coach prior to Wilder Ignacio Correda there were complaints repeatedly about his behavior he wasn't but he was left in charge of the team for more than 20 years despite players saying he's a bully there are problems the players were ignored and I think what we have now is a situation whereby UEFA, FIFA, individual federations have to make sure that players are empowered they have to have an ability to be listened to an ability not to be ignored because it's clear that in the past their complaints right up until this World Cup had just been ignored. Andy it's obviously a story that is going to evolve throughout the day here on Al Jazeera of course we'll get more analysis from you and our teams across the world really on what's going on thanks very much