Sam Kerr has ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament. It’s devastating. Devastating for Kerr, for Chelsea, for the Matildas, and for Australian football.
Kerr suffered the injury during a Chelsea training camp in Morocco; ruled out of the rest of the Women’s Super League season, the UEFA Women’s Champions League campaign, and the Matildas’ Olympic qualifying playoffs with Uzbekistan in February. No timeline was put on her recovery by either Chelsea or the Matildas, but it’s incredibly difficult to see how this doesn’t ensure the absence of Australia’s record goalscorer at the Olympics, assuming they qualify.
