Disappointment For Paralympic Footballer Ellis

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.

Matt, a 30 year old football player, flew in to the UK especially for the first ever football tournament in the Paralympic World Cup. He managed to score the only goal in the 1-0 defeat over teh United States, he currently lives in Miami. Unfortunately the happiness was short lives as Ellis went on to sustain the injury during a 3-1 defeat by the Netherlands. The Netherlands eventually went on to win the competition.

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 nd 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.'

Britian managed to get the bronze medal overall which has come as a wakeup call to the squad who were formerly unbeaten in 2009. Ellis admitted that the squad needed to up their game in order to achieve success.

"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 BT Paralympic World Cup 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.