{"id":324630,"date":"2023-08-19T21:26:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T21:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=324630"},"modified":"2023-08-20T00:00:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T00:00:33","slug":"kerr-reveals-injury-struggle-after-concerning-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=324630","title":{"rendered":"Kerr reveals injury &#039;struggle&#039; after concerning incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/sam-kerr\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"S\ufeffam Kerr\">S\ufeffam Kerr<\/a> has revealed her injury struggles after she went down for a significant amount of time in the second half of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/fifa-womens-world-cup\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"FIFA Women&#x27;s World Cup\">FIFA Women&#x27;s World Cup<\/a> third-place playoff.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/matildas\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Matildas\">Matildas<\/a> skipper was involved in a heavy collision with Swedish defender Magdalena Eriksson and was in major discomfort as play continued on around her.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, after booing from the crowd, the referee brought the game to a halt with Kerr helped off the field.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2023-the-mole-south-sydney-rabbitohs-rocked-by-death-2014-grand-final-winner-kyle-turner\/37152c77-f4bd-46fd-9356-39475a216adc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Rabbitohs rocked by death of grand final hero\ufeff\"><strong>Rabbitohs rocked by death of grand final hero\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: \ufeff<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2023-warriors-v-sea-eagles-anthony-seibold-ridiculous-garrick-call-press-conference-comments-reaction\/2e14179a-8eff-4389-b48a-8f93fb4b1198\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"&#x27;Pissed off&#x27; Seibold goes nuclear on &#x27;ridiculous&#x27; call\"><strong>&#x27;Pissed off&#x27; Seibold goes nuclear on &#x27;ridiculous&#x27; call<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/news-2023-collingwood-coach-craig-mcrae-not-worried-after-loss-to-brisbane-lions-despite-defence-and-injury-problems\/e284064a-99f0-42cb-8cc2-8f2cf1867537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Pies coach unfazed by disappointing showing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"0c8ffe76-1d09-49d0-b7c9-9464b481b8bf\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/0c8ffe76-1d09-49d0-b7c9-9464b481b8bf\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"931\" data-height=\"524\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While still limping, Kerr returned in the 77th minute to try and produce a miracle at 2-0 down. Unfortunately, she wasn&#x27;t able to change her fortunes.<\/p>\n<p>Kerr missed the three opening games of the tournament due to a calf injury but the superstar revealed the knock came to her healthier one. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>&quot;My calves are struggling to be honest and I just copped a knee into the back of my right one which is my strong one. But that&#x27;s irrelevant now,&quot; she said post-game on Optus Sports&#x27; coverage.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"2e2c7a10-ffce-4c6f-8a25-b85de5f365e1\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2e2c7a10-ffce-4c6f-8a25-b85de5f365e1\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1143\" data-height=\"643\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After detailing her struggles, Kerr went on to reflect on an incredible tournament, describing it as the best period in her career. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s sad that it&#x27;s come to \ufeffan end, this has been the best four weeks of our careers and it would&#x27;ve been nice to go out on a high but I think we have to reflect and think of how amazing this is,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#x27;ve never come fourth before so although it&#x27;s disappointing we&#x27;ll look back in a couple of weeks and be proud of what we did.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>S\ufeffam Kerr has revealed her injury struggles after she went down for a significant amount of time in the second half of the FIFA Women&#x27;s <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=324630\" title=\"Kerr reveals injury &#039;struggle&#039; after concerning incident\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":324632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324635,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324630\/revisions\/324635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/324632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}