After a nine-hour flight, our men's soccer team took the Qatar Airways chartered plane landed at Hamad International Airport in Doha in the early morning of the 26th. All the players then rushed to the booked hotel to accept the nucleic acid test, and then entered the quarantine state. The team is not expected to arrange any recovery training on the 26th.
Doha is not an unfamiliar place for many of the country's soccer greats. Many players have participated in training and matches here, and the 2020 AFC Champions League will also be held here. In order to cope with the possible tournament system of the Top 40, the CFA mobilized the Chinese Super League G4 clubs to send the strongest squad to adapt to the climate and playing environment in advance. However, despite the final choice of Sharjah, UAE for the Top 40, the group stage of the Round of 12 unexpectedly landed in Doha.
Compared to the UAE's more relaxed epidemic prevention and control policies, Qatar's rules are much stricter. Upon arrival, our team took a bus directly to the hotel to undergo a new coronavirus nucleic acid test. After the test, all team members returned to their rooms and waited for the results to be announced. During this time, no one was allowed to leave the room.
In addition, our team has also received a detailed epidemic prevention guide from Qatar, which all players are required to strictly follow. According to this guideline, our team may only be able to live a monotonous life of "hotel, training ground and competition venue" for the next month.
