Despite the loss, the determination and grit displayed by the Indian side and the charged atmosphere at the Kalinga Stadium made the match a truly memorable occasion.
Indian U-17 will play Brazil in their concluding Group A match of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup at the Kalinga Stadium on Monday, October 17, 2022. The match will kick off at 8 pm IST
After their camp in Bhubaneswar, the tour will serve as part of the team's preparations for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup which will start from October 11, 2022.
Zarqa [Jordan], April 7 (ANI): Indian Women's Team head coach Thomas Dennerby stressed the importance of building for the longer term ahead of the Blue Tigresses' Friendly against Jordan.
Mumbai Jan 26 PTI Indian womens football team coach Thomas Dennerby on Wednesday squarely blamed the AFC for the COVID-19 outbreak that led to the countrys ouster from the ongoing Asian Cup here alleging that his players were infected by the hotel staff in a bio-bubble that was not foolproof In a scathing attack on the continental body Dennerby said Indias dream of taking a shot at the FIFA World Cup was shattered not because of any fault of the players but due to the weak bio-bubble created by the Asian Football Confederation AFC He said the AFC did not show any respect compassion empathy to the team to deal with the extraordinary situation in such a high-stake tournament We were all negative of COVID when we reached team hotel on Jan 13 and after arrival tests The first positive case came on the day we went out of hotel for training and a day later January 17 seven hotel staff tested positive It is not rocket science to know how the outbreak came he told PTI after a virtual media interaction The first huge outbreak was among the hotel staff From my point of view its very clear where it COVID started it definitely did not start in the team It came from the AFC bubble inside the hotel he said The hotel staff was tested for every six days and not every three days as done in case of teams We know tests were conducted on hotel staff on Jan 11 and then on Jan 17 and seven positive cases were known on Jan 18 But the information was given only on Jan 19 afternoon What was AFC doing for whole one day we dont know India were forced out of the AFC Womens Asian Cup on Sunday after a dozen COVID-19 cases among their players led to the cancellation of a group match against Chinese Taipei minutes before kickoff here The AFC had said given the situation Article 41 of the tournament rules came into effect which made it clear that if a team failed to assemble for a match it would be considered to have withdrawn from the relevant Competition Dennerby said the AFC should have asked the infected hotel staff to leave immediately and not have any contact with players We dont know why the AFC did not take immediate action AFC should have called the hotel directly and asked the infected staff to immediately leave and not to have any contact with players said the Swede who will also coach the Indian team in the FIFA Womens U-17 World Cup in October Several hotel staff infected with COVID including team India coordinator kitchen staff chef housekeeping service staff all of them taking care of us cooking and serving food cleaning our rooms while we were inside isolated in our rooms still the AFC waited for a whole day He said since the COVID-19 breach happened at the bio-bubble maintained by the AFC it should have found a solution Honestly we are not happy with AFC tournament organisation and lack of solution oriented dialogue In one way that destroyed our dream We are not blaming the whole of AFC organisation AFC is a good organisation in total But since the COVID breach was not our fault the AFC should have found out a solution It was an exceptional situation and AFC could have taken steps like say postponing the matches by a few days What really hurts us is that AFC is now trying to blame us and I think that is a shame The only answers we got when we tried to have a dialogue was that they were following article 41 of special rules The team started training on January 16 when there was another round of testing and one player returned COVID-19 positive There was another round of testing on January 18 and one more player and two support staff -- team physio and strength and conditioning coach -- were found infected with the virus Another round of tests were done on January 21 and it was known the next morning that the number of COVID-19 positive players had increased to 10 Two players were injured -- their bone fractured -- and were on plastic cast There were still 11 COVID-negative players left in the squad Then there was further tests and at 530pm before Chinese Taipei match January 23 two more players tested positive taking the total to 12 By that time only nine players were COVID-negative leading to the cancellation of the match Dennerby questioned why the AFC did not cancel the match on the morning itself when India did not have enough players 13 under rules by then If AFC already decided to send us out from this tournament why do it this painful way no respect no compassion no empathy to our feelings Honestly did AFC wanted us to look like fools bringing in two players in wheelchairs is that showing the team respect PTI PDSNRB KHS PM PDS AH
Mumbai Jan 26 PTI Indian womens football team coach Thomas Dennerby on Wednesday squarely blamed the AFC for the COVID-19 outbreak that led to the countrys ouster from the ongoing Asian Cup here alleging that his players were infected by the hotel staff in a bio-bubble that was not foolproof In a scathing attack on the continental body Dennerby said Indias dream of taking a shot at the FIFA World Cup was shattered not because of any fault of the players but due to the weak bio-bubble created by the Asian Football Confederation AFC He said the AFC did not show any respect compassion empathy to the team to deal with the extraordinary situation in such a high-stake tournament We were all negative of COVID when we reached team hotel and after arrival tests The first positive case came on the day we went out of hotel for training and a day later January 17 seven hotel staff tested positive It is not rocket science to know how the outbreak came he told PTI after a virtual media interaction The tests of hotel staff were done on January 17 and results of seven positive cases known on Jan 18 But the information was given only on Jan 19 afternoon What was AFC doing for whole one day we dont know The hotel staff was tested for every six days and not every three days as done in case of teams we dont know why an angry Dennerby alleged India were forced out of the AFC Womens Asian Cup on Sunday after a dozen COVID-19 cases among their players led to the cancellation of a group match against Chinese Taipei minutes before kickoff here The AFC had said given the situation Article 41 of the tournament rules came into effect which made it clear that if a team failed to assemble for a match it would be considered to have withdrawn from the relevant Competition Dennerby said the AFC should have asked the infected hotel staff to leave immediately and not have any contact with players We dont know why the AFC did not take immediate action AFC should have called the hotel directly and asked the infected staff to immediately leave and not to have any contact with players said the Swede Several hotel staff infected with COVID including team India coordinator kitchen staff chef housekeeping service staff all of them taking care of us cooking and serving food cleaning our rooms while we were inside isolated in our rooms still the AFC waited for a whole day He said since the COVID-19 breach happened at the bio-bubble maintained by the AFC it should have found a solution Honestly we are not happy with AFC tournament organisation and lack of solution oriented dialogue In one way that destroyed our dream We are not blaming the whole of AFC organisation AFC is a good organisation in total But since the COVID breach was not our fault the AFC should have found out a solution It was an exceptional situation and AFC could have taken steps like say postponing the matches by a few days What really hurts us is that AFC is now trying to blame us and I think that is a shame The only answers we got when we tried to have a dialogue was that they were following article 41 of special rules The team started training on January 16 when there was another round of testing and one player returned COVID-19 positive There was another round of testing on January 18 and one more player and two support staff -- team physio and strength and conditioning coach -- were found infected with the virus Another round of tests were done on January 21 and it was known the next morning that the number of COVID-19 positive players had increased to 10 Two players were injured -- their bone fractured -- and were on plastic cast There were still 11 COVID-negative players left in the squad Then there was further tests and at 530pm before Chinese Taipei match January 23 two more players tested positive taking the total to 12 By that time only nine players were COVID-negative leading to the cancellation of the match Dennerby questioned why the AFC did not cancel the match on the morning itself when India did not have enough players 13 under rules by then If AFC already decided to send us out from this tournament why do it this painful way no respect no compassion no empathy to our feelings Honestly did AFC wanted us to look like fools bringing in two players in wheelchairs is that showing the team respect PTI PDSNRB KHS PM PM
Mumbai Jan 26 PTI Indian womens football team coach Thomas Dennerby on Wednesday blamed the AFC for the countrys ouster from the ongoing Asian Cup alleging that the bio-bubble set up by the continental body wasnt foolproof as the home team players got affected due to COVID-19 positive hotel staff We were all negative of COVID when we reached the hotel and after the arrival tests The first positive case came on the day we went out of hotel for training and the day later seven hotel staff tested positive It is not rocket science to know how the outbreak came he told PTI after a virtual media interaction Moreover seven hotel staff tested positive on January 17 tests and they informed about it one day later What was AFC doing for whole one day we dont know The hotel staff was not tested every three days just like the teams The staff were being tested after six days we dont know the reason an angry Dennerby alleged He said since the COVID-19 breach happened at the bio-bubble maintained by the AFC it should have found out a solution Honestly we are not happy with AFC tournament organisation and lack of solution oriented dialogue We think that in one way that destroyed our dream But we are not blaming the role of the AFC organisation not all all AFC is a good organisation in total Since the COVID breach was not our fault the AFC should have found out a solution It was an exceptional situation and AFC could have taken steps like say postponing the matches by a few days PTI PDS PDS KHS KHS
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