India ladies’s coach Thomas Dennerby has blamed the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for ‘destroying’ the staff’s goals and accused them of dealing with the bio-bubble in an ‘unprofessional’ method, which has led to the Covid-19 disaster within the staff. There was an outbreak of -19.
AFC guidelines compelled India to tug out of the continued Asian Cup after the hosts had been unable to area the hosts’ obligatory 13 gamers for his or her match in opposition to Chinese Taipei final Sunday.
On Wednesday, Dennerby mentioned 19 of the 23 gamers within the staff and 6 members of the help employees examined optimistic.
Speaking from his lodge room in Navi Mumbai, the place your entire staff is in isolation, Dennerby mentioned the staff and the All India Football Federation (AIFF) couldn’t do far more by way of taking precautions.
“Honestly, we are not happy with the tournament organization of the AFC and the lack of solutions. In a way, it destroyed our dreams,” he mentioned.
The 12-nation competitors is being held at three venues in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Pune. The pre-tournament organizational half was dealt with by an area organizing committee, however it’s realized that the staff accommodations had been chosen by the AFC and that in-tournament operations, together with bio-bubble protocols, had been additionally managed by them. being performed.
Dennerby indicated that the Indian staff acquired contaminated by way of the lodge employees. The 62-year-old Swede mentioned that the employees of the lodge the place the Indian staff is staying had had an RT-PCR check on January 17.
“The results of the check was given to the AFC on the 18th. (But) the AFC didn’t ship the outcomes to the lodge until the nineteenth. Seven lodge staff contaminated with Kovid together with Team India coordinator, kitchen employees, chef, housekeeping, service employees… “Why did not AFC ship the report earlier? Why wait all day? I assume this was a non-professional method to deal with this within the AFC bubble, no clarification can suffice.
Dennerby mentioned that ‘many gamers weren’t feeling properly’ after the goalless draw in opposition to Iran. The subsequent day, on January 21, the gamers had been examined, leading to seven optimistic instances. The coach mentioned he tried to have a ‘logical, correct dialogue with the AFC’ however they didn’t have a ‘solution-oriented’ dialogue, which in the end led to India’s exit from the competitors.
“It is the worst feeling I have ever had as a head coach. Me and the team are devastated. Our dreams are forever zones,” Dennerby mentioned.
An electronic mail has been despatched to AFC in search of their reply.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
