Mumbai: In a sincere message, the Australian soccer team team, Sam Kerr on Wednesday empathy with Indian players after the Covid-19 outbreak caused the country’s Ouster from the ongoing Women’s Asian Cup here, urging them to “use this as a material Burn “to come back stronger.
The host India was forced out of the tournament on Sunday after a dozen Covid-19 cases among their players leading to the cancellation of group matches against the Chinese Taipei minutes before kickoff, making the home team players destroyed.
“Hi girls, this is Sam Kerr from the Australian national team.
Just want to send you messages and say how sorry me for your situation now.
I’m very disappointed with you, I know you have worked very hard for this tournament.
Use this as Fuel, come back stronger, “Kerr said in the video posted by the Indian Football Federation (AIFF) on Twitter.
“I hope to play you, but it’s not like that, hopefully in the future we will meet.
Good luck in your future efforts and hopefully one day we will see you back in this tournament,” ACE striker added in the video.
One of the biggest names in the world in female football, Australian captain, Kerr was beaten into the best FIFA player for this year (2021) award by Barcelona’s Alexia Putellas.
On Wednesday, the Indian team coach Thomas Dennerby properly blamed the Asian Football Federation (AFC) for the Covid-19 outbreak that leads to the exit of the country from the continental exhibition, allegating that his players were infected by the hotel staff in Bio-Bubble.
No “very easy”.
In a spicy attack on a continental body, Dennerby said Indian dreams to take a shot at the FIFA World Cup was destroyed not because of the mistakes of the players but because of the weak bio bubble made by AFC.
He said AFC did not show “respect, affection, empathy” to the team to handle the “extraordinary” situation in a very high tournament.
“We were all negative from Covid when we reached the hotel team and after the arrival test.
The first positive case came on our day out of the hotel for training and a day later (January 17), seven hotel staff were tested positively.
Not rocket science to find out how the outbreak.
Come, “he told PTI after virtual media interactions.
“The hotel staff test was carried out on January 17 and the results of seven positive cases were known on January 18.
But the information was given only on January 19.
What AFC did throughout the day, we did not know.” The hotel staff are tested every six days and not every three days as they do in the case of the team, we don’t know why, “an angry alleged.