SA Olympics football coach David Notoane fears the lack of time to acclimatise due to their Covid19 isolation in hot and steamy Tokyo could put his players’ health at risk. Tokyo2020 Olympics | IOLsport
He pointed to the example of Denmark midfielder Eriksen, who collapsed at the European Championship last month after suffering a cardiac arrest before being resuscitated."One can only hope and pray that with the players having been out of activity for a long time since we arrived here, we don't experience something like that.
"The worst-case scenario could have been that we were suspended from the tournament, or we don't have enough team members to participate in the tournament," he said. But Japan defender Maya Yoshida was unconcerned about facing the South Africans in their tournament opener.
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