A women's tackle football Darrel Williams Jersey team from the United States is trapped in Honduras after the Latin American country decided to close its borders as a response to the coronavirus. The team was visiting Honduras to do some charity work for a local homele s shelter, and play in a tournament.The group of 55 players and coaches are part of a nonprofit called American Football Events Team USA. They arrived in Honduras on Wednesday, provided donations to homele s teenagers on Thursday, then played in the America's Women Bowl in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras -- Honduras, Mexico, Harrison Butker Jersey and Costa Rica were also in the tournament -- on Friday and Saturday. When the team first landed, there were only three known cases of COVID-19 in the country, but things apparently got to a point where games needed to be canceled by Saturday due to the government barring gatherings of more than 50 people.Things only got worse for the players and staff when they got to the airport Sunday Le'Veon Bell Jersey only to discover all flights were grounded. Honduras' government had that air, sea and land borders would all be closed for seven days."We went undefeated and won the International tournament on a Chad Williams Jersey high, and then finding out that the Honduras government closed the border from in-and-out travel was frustrating," Sandy Glo senger, operations manager and co-owner of the non-profit, USA TODAY Sports in an email. "But we have a team motto, that everything we dowe do it TOGETHER. So morale is good and we are safe." Stephanie Balochko, one of the players on the team, made a post on describing the situation and tagging the president. As a whole, the team is reaching out for to extend their stay in the hotel they're at while stuck in Honduras. The U.S. Emba sy helped the team get discounted hotel rates and room service while the Honduras team provided food. Tyrann Mathieu Jersey The group is still reportedly rationing out what food it had. Click here Click here Click here  |
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