Cerebral palsy sufferer Matt Ellis has been left feeling disappointed after her suffered from a torn Achilles tendon at the BT Paralympic World Cup this week. The injury ahs come as a blow for both Ellis and the British squad.
The thirty year old flew in from Miami for the World Cup, which was featuring football for the first time ever, and managed to score the only goal in the win over the USA team. Ellis' glory was short lived unfortunately as he then sustained the injury during a 3-1 defeat by overall competition winners the Netherlands.
Ellis has now been advised to rest the injured tendon until at least September which will mean he misses the European championships, creating further disappointment.
"I'm gutted obviously," said Ellis. "I felt a hot pain in the second half of that game against the Dutch and I went over for a scan and it's a torn Achilles. Rather than up the Achilles, it's a 4mm tear across it which is worse apparently.'
Britain however managed to achieve the bronze medal which has come as little comfort for the team who were previously unbeaten throughout 2009.Ellis admitted that the team need to up their training in order to be able to compete against the best.
"Hopefully we can raise our game and play our attacking, flowing brand of football again," said Ellis. "I think the problem is we only play once a month together whereas a lot of the teams train once a week. But we're still feeling good about the European Championships.
The competition is attracting more and more people each year and is the largest multi-sport annual elite disability competition in the world and many athletes competed in Manchester this time around. The competition has been placed there in order to bridge the gap between the four yearly paralympic games.
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