Jenni Hermoso took another hit. Just a week after learning that she had been excluded from the women’s team by decision of Montse Tomé, the player suffered another setback, this time on the field. Your team, Female Tigers, lost the final Mexico Opening Tournament on penalties. They arrived with a 1-0 advantage after the first leg, but Rayadas de Monterrey won 3-2, forcing the shootout, where Hermoso’s team fell.
The Spanish team met on Monday afternoon in Las Rozas, waiting Lucy Garcia, who plays in Mexico, will join after the Apertura final. This is not the case for Jenni Hermoso. The Madrid striker will be one of the main absentees from this concentration, since Montse Tome sparked a revolution seeking to reclaim the “balance in coexistence” and, to do this, he excluded players like Hermoso herself, Irene Paredes or Misa Rodríguez.
The decision came as a shock to Jenny that he didn’t expect it at all. The striker is one of the team’s captains and, although Tomé had already sent Paredes off in the first call after the Olympic Games, He did not do the same with Hermoso, to whom he also dedicated a moving message after receiving the award Socrates Prize by France Football, during the Ballon d’Or gala.
In this pause, Jenny He only played 15 minutes, which added to his limited participation in the Olympics. Indeed, that of Carabanchel did not hesitate to express its dissatisfaction with the lack of minutes, emphasizing that it was time to take responsibility “a new role” And “accept it or not, that’s what depends“. “There are things that are difficult to understand,” he noted then.
The lack of acceptance of this new condition made him lose his place in the concentrations, because Montse Tomé decided to implement a system closer to that of the men’s national team, which he considers to be a “family example”. For this reason, the coach decided to break with any player who might break the harmony in the locker room, Hermoso being one of those sacrificed.
Jenni Hermoso loses the Mexican League
Now the player has taken on a new costume. He reached the final of the Mexican Apertura League with Tigres, where they faced Rayadas de Monterrey, where Spanish international Lucía García also plays. Jenni Hermoso He started and his team was leading 0-2 in the first half, which almost brought them closer to the title, as they had already won 1-0 in the first leg.
However, in the second half everything changed. Striped shortened distances and Lucie Garcia He scored the goal that tied the match and left his team just one goal away from tying the final. That’s when Tigres coach Milagros Martínez decided to pull Jenni out.
It would eventually reach 3-2 in stoppage time, sending the match to penalties. Over there, Striped would definitely consummate his comeback, leaving some images of Jenni Hermoso depressed after losing the title.
