Lorena Bedoya can be seen making contact with Irish vice captain’s left leg before warm-up game outside Brisbane was abandoned
The results showed no fracture, but Ireland manager Vera Pauw stated that “the next 48 hours” will reveal if bone bruising and a soft tissue injury will rule the Cork dynamo out of Thursday’s tournament opener against Australia in Sydney.
No Irish journalist witnessed the incident first hand as they were blocked from entering the ground by the Colombian federation and Fifa security despite an open invitation from Pauw. “We are not making any further comment on the Columbia game and are now fully focused on our first World Cup game against Australia,” emailed an FAI spokesperson on Sunday morning.
The Dutch coach denies making a serious error of judgment in April when she effectively prompted the Athletic – which this month became the sports department of The New York Times – to reopen an investigation into her single season coaching the Houston Dash in 2018. When The Irish Times approached the person believed to be who Pauw was referring to, and who she intends to “take legal action” against after the World Cup, that person responded: “Perhaps it’s me? I don’t know. That said, I didn’t contribute anything to the recent article, nor did I have anything to do with the NWSL [National Women’s Soccer League] investigation [which banned Pauw from coaching professionally in America].
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