Harry souttar, a defender for the socceroos, claims that the targeted attacks and abuse on players during australia’s disastrous asian cup match went too far. When graham arnold’s side let a 1-0 lead slip in their quarterfinal against south korea, succumbing to a 2-1 loss in extra time.
Australia was also chastised earlier in the tournament for a string of sloppy group-stage performances. Souttar said that players and coaches could cope with criticism of tactics, poor play, or failures, but that personal insult and insult was used to take outrage. Maybe i’ll regret saying this a little later on, but as a team, we’ll just get behind the team better, souttar said. In the group stages, we were chastised heavily, and it was right, because you can play better. There’s a lot of negativity about it, but it’s uncalled for.
Reading something from people back home, it just doesn’t seem right. During the group stage, defender gethin jones was chastised heavily, while mitch duke’s missed opportunities and lewis miller’s costly mistakes against south korea sparked a lot of rage on social media.
It was similar to the abuse matildas star ellie carpenter suffered during last year’s women’s world cup, and it was directed at then-socceroo robbie kruse during the men’s tournament in 2018.
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