Wales’ preparations for Friday’s Ladies’s World Cup qualifier in Montenegro have been badly disrupted after the crew flight was pressured to divert to Italy because of dangerous climate.
Rhian Wilkinson’s squad took off from Cardiff at 16:30 BST on Wednesday and had been because of arrive in Montenegro round three hours later.
Nevertheless, they have been unable to land in Podgorica because of electrical storms across the Montenegrin capital and ultimately diverted to the Italian port metropolis of Brindisi.
After greater than three hours on the tarmac in southern Italy, throughout which Wales had hoped climate circumstances would ease, the choice was taken to remain in Brindisi on Wednesday evening.
That left Soccer Affiliation of Wales (FAW) officers scrambling to safe resort rooms for the travelling get together, in addition to making an attempt to rearrange journey plans for Thursday.
“Attributable to storms in Podgorica, the Cymru girls’s nationwide crew flight was diverted this night, touchdown safely in Brindisi airport in south Italy,” the FAW stated on social media.
“The crew will keep in a single day in Italy and can organize various journey to Montenegro forward of Friday night’s match.”
Wales tackle Montenegro in Podgorica of their penultimate Group B1 fixture at 17:00 BST on Friday.
They then host Czech Republic, their rivals to complete prime of the group, of their ultimate fixture in Cardiff on Tuesday.
