RFEF chiefs set to sue mutinying Spain national team players including Alexia Putellas & Aitana Bonmati over demands for their resignations before returning to the squad

Directors and employees of the Spanish FA (RFEF) are reportedly ready to take legal action against mutinying players demanding their resignations.

On the back of the long-running saga involving former RFEF president Luis Rubiales – who has finally resigned from his post – 2023 Women’s World Cup-winning stars are calling for further change.

Some 39 players have signed a document stating that they will not return to the national team for Nations League duty unless their demands are met.

A collective statement read: «To date, as we have conveyed to the RFEF, the changes that have taken place are not enough for the players to feel that they are in a safe place, where women are respected, where there is support for women's football and where we can give our maximum performance.

»We would like to end this statement by saying that the players of the Spanish national team are professional players, and what fills us most with pride is to wear the shirt of our national team and always take our country to the highest positions.

«Therefore, we believe that it is time to fight to show that these situations and practices have no place in our football or in our society, that the current structure needs to change and we do it so that the next generations can have a much more egalitarian football and at the height of what we all deserve.»

Those players in question have called for: the restructuring of the organisational chart in women’s football, the presidential cabinet and that of the general secretary, the communication and marketing department and the integrity department, while also urging the RFEF president to resign.

Pedro Rocha has been placed in temporary charge of the RFEF following the resignation of Rubiales – who finally bowed to