Pauw: 'This will not disturb us from being ready for Australia'
Pauw asked Canham for help after the Colombia manager Nelson Abadía failed to stop his players from making dangerous tackles. The 40-year-old, who previously worked for the English FA, phoned FAI chief executive Jonathan Hill, who supported his decision to cancel the match.
Ruesha Littlejohn also shipped a heavy knock, which prompted Australian referee Caitlin Williams to show the first of two yellow cards. Vera, what is the prognosis on Denise? “We now have hope because there is bone brusing and soft tissue [damage] but not a bone fracture. The next 48 hours are very important, to see how it settles down. We will have a better idea on Monday if she can make [the World Cup].”What chance has she of recovering in time to face Australia next Thursday? “We have hopes. We cannot say it. It is not that I don’t want to say it because, again, the first 48 hours are very important in how it settles.
“I thought ‘this is going really wrong’. That challenge, she was in awful pain, potentially a serious injury, she was on the ground. So I stayed calm. I went to the bench of the opponent and I asked the coach [Abadía], ‘I need your help, we all want to go to the World Cup, how do we calm this down?’ And he only said, one sentence, something like ‘It’s both sides.’“Their team manager, I asked her to help me calm things down, and she said it’s not intentional. She also sat down.
“No, that’s not true. But the Colombian staff handled it really well. They took their players off while we were discussing what we would do, and that was in the moment that we were in discussion with the referees.“The statement of the Colombian FA says a thousand words, I think, and the fact that their staff did not convince us to try to play on also says that everybody understood that this would not come right.
You scouted Colombia before arranging this fixture, any signs of this behaviour? “I’ve never seen that before. We’ve analysed, very profoundly, five games and we’ve not seen this once because otherwise we wouldn’t have played them.” “Katie, the captain, said the same thing. We said: this will not disturb us from being ready for Australia.“The way we were on the pitch immediately after this happened, after such a disturbing moment for everybody, the way we handled it mean that we will not feel any negative influence for the game against Australia. Other than we hope Denise will be ready. At that moment we thought that we had lost her.
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