Football Australia and Matildas coach Tony Gustavsson say they were blindsided by an allegation of racially aggravated harassment made in the UK against Australian captain Sam Kerr, and only found out about the charge on Tuesday morning.
The striker appeared in court on Monday in the UK and pleaded not guilty to charges of using insulting, threatening or abusive words that caused alarm or distress to a police officer in an incident in January 2023.
FA chief executive James Johnson said he heard through the media.
“I woke up this morning like everyone else did to the news, and that is when Football Australia found out about this unsettling event,” he said.
“We are trying to get to the bottom of it at the moment. We have got our own questions that we’d like to know, we have got to find out what actually happened.
“But we also want to say that there is a process that is under way…
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