The Women’s World Cup organisers have apologised for the power failure that held up the Nigeria, Canada game for 10 minutes on Tuesday.
The match at the Dresden Stadium was stopped about 30 minutes into the second half when the electricity supply to the entire complex failed and the game stopped abruptly.
The director of the complex Winfried Nab said it was a strange occurrence in the history of their football.
He said, “ There was a slight problem with the main Dresden city supply and our system reacted negatively to that and shut off. This one is completely a first occurrence unlike what we once experienced with a Bundesliga game.”
Dresden will host a quarterfinal match on Sunday but Nab said he was not in a position to guarantee that it would be the last occurrence.
“I can’t give guarantee on Sunday game straight away because we are still investigating. It is when we know the cause of the incident before we can be specific on guarantees. But we (Germans) are sincerely sorry for what happened.”
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