Beiqing-Beijing headline reporter revealed that during the 40 strong match, the Chinese Football Association to ensure that the national team's preparation needs, carefully built a full range of services to protect the system. To this end, the Association set up a special epidemic prevention, competition, business, logistics, media, foreign affairs, six working groups, each group by the Association of the corresponding departments of the "head" personally take command, and strive to ensure that the implementation of the work and efficiency. At the same time, the head of the financial department, Mr. He Xiaofeng, also accompanied the team to West Asia to ensure that any problems or challenges could be solved quickly and locally.
With the national football team advancing into the Qatar World Qualifier Asian Zone 12, the working group of the Chinese Football Association has been upgraded accordingly to the team of the 12 strong match protection. The Association held a meeting to clarify the next division of work to the heads of the groups on the one hand, and on the other hand, to converge the operation plan and progress of each group.
According to the planning, the national football team will assemble on August 18 at the latest to prepare for the upcoming 12-team tournament, which will start on September 2nd. At this point in time with just over a month left, the choice of home ground has become a pressing task.
In fact, the Chinese Football Association (CFA) and the Chinese team had already favored Shanghai as the home of the 12-team tournament when the group draw was announced. After all, during the women's Olympic play-offs and the second half of the Chinese men's 40-team tournament against Guam, participants entered and exited the city through Shanghai, which has accumulated a wealth of experience in the implementation of anti-epidemic measures for tournaments and other tournament processes.
However, in view of the epidemic and other possible force majeure factors, the Chinese Football Association must also make adequate preparations when making plans for the home matches of the Top 12. It is reported that the association has taken Suzhou as the second alternative home ground for the 12-team tournament.
As for the "third-party neutral venue alternative" proposed by the AFC, the Chinese Football Association has not failed to consider it. However, at present, both the Association and the coaching staff of the Chinese team are doing their best to keep the team's home matches in China. If the plan of "local competition" cannot be implemented in the end, the Chinese Football Association will start other alternatives.
It is reported, about the national football 12 strong match home field selection work has now entered the plan to submit to the higher authorities for approval stage. It should be noted that, due to the importance of anti-epidemic measures, the declaration of the national football home field plan is similar to the declaration of the Chinese Super League restart, are required to go through a rigorous process, and get the approval of the higher authorities before implementation. After the plan is approved, the Chinese Football Association will officially report to the AFC.
Considering the complexity of the current global epidemic and the severity of the epidemic prevention work in each country (region), the AFC has suggested that participating member associations submit their plans for the home matches of each team in the 12-team tournament as early as possible, but has not set a specific deadline for reporting. Similar to the Chinese Football Association (CFA), participating member associations such as the Vietnam Football Association (VFA), the Australian Football Association (AFA) and the Japan Football Association (JFA) are also actively seeking support from their governments and maintaining close communication with the AFC. At present, they have not yet submitted their detailed plans to AFC.
