Noteworthy: Orange Lionesses exhibition game moved due to glass and stones on the pitch | Women’s World Cup

Players from both teams entered the pitch and saw that it was littered with rocks and broken glass. National coach Andries Jonker ordered his players to remove the objects from the pitch, but there were too many. Playing a match was therefore considered irresponsible by the Lionesses medical staff.

The problems arose during work on the pitch, the club report. During scarification, a method that involves pricking the field to detach it, parts that were in the ground are brought to the surface. EGS’20 has been busy clearing the pitch for the past few weeks, but there were still too many shards and stones on the pitch for the friendly match.

The Oranje Leeuwinnen youth teams have already played six games at Sportpark De Kranenhof of the EGS ’20 in the past. The KNVB has a partnership with the amateur club. Since the match with the Under-19 team was scheduled shortly in advance, no KNVB employee could be sent to check the pitch.

The exhibition match will be moved to Horst, where the Leeuwinnen were already in a hotel this week and trained. The game will start at 3:00 p.m. The Orange Lionesses are currently preparing for the Women’s World Cup which will be hosted next month in Australia and New Zealand. The tournament will begin on July 23. Tomorrow, national coach Andries Jonker will announce his final selection.

One of the participants in Horst’s competition is Kika van Es. Last week she was one of the dropouts for national coach Andries Jonker’s World Cup selection, but as a number of players are not yet fit she is temporarily joining again.