Preparation for the Tokyo Olympics Women's Football Asian Zone Play-offs
The upcoming Tokyo Olympics Women's Football Asian Zone Playoff first round to be held in the afternoon of April 8 at the Goyang Stadium in South Korea, China's women's football team will start a fierce duel with the South Korean women's football team. noon on April 5, China's women's football team under the leadership of the head coach Jia Xiuquan and the leader of the team, Zheng Chaoyong, departed from the Gusu Taimei Xiangguri Hotel, took the flight to Seoul, South Korea, in the afternoon of the same day, to prepare for the game.
On this trip to Korea, our women's soccer team aims to make every effort to win and lay the foundation for entering the final stage of the Olympic Games. At the same time, the team is also well aware of the importance of safeguarding the life, health and safety of the whole team during the visit. It is reported that the CFA has not only arranged Zheng Chaoyong, the team leader, and Luo Zhao, the head of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Association, to be responsible for the team's life, training and foreign affairs during the period of the team's visit to South Korea, but also assigned Qi Jun, who has rich experience in epidemic prevention work in the Chinese Super League tournament, to be the team's epidemic prevention officer. In addition, the AFC has confirmed that it will assign Australian and Japanese referees to enforce the two rounds of matches between the two teams.
The schedule released by the AFC shows that the two rounds of China-Korea women's soccer matches will be played on April 8 and 13 at the Goyang Stadium in South Korea and the Gusu Olympic Sports Center Stadium in China. Our women's soccer team left for South Korea on April 5 to prepare for the first round of away matches. Affected by the epidemic, the two rounds of the women's soccer match between China and South Korea were postponed repeatedly from the initial date of March last year. Until late February this year, the AFC finalized the game will be held on April 8, 13, respectively, in South Korea, China. The matches could not be held without the active communication and support of the Chinese and Korean Football Associations, the relevant departments of the two governments, and the AFC.
In order to ensure that the epidemic prevention work is foolproof, our women's soccer team arrived in Seoul at 6:00 p.m. local time on the evening of the 5th, and will go to the quarantine place by car under special escort. The next day, after confirming the health of all members of the team, our women's soccer team will then go to the tournament area and enter the hotel. The team will then live, train and play in accordance with the quarantine requirements of the tournament area. In other words, our team will be in a "closed chain" from the time they arrive in Korea to the time they leave the country.
In order to help China's women's football team to do a good job in all the preparations for the competition in South Korea, the CFA not only arranged for the team leader Zheng Chaoyong and the Association's Foreign Affairs Department Minister Luo Zhao to accompany the trip, but also sent Qi Jun, who has a wealth of experience in epidemic prevention, to serve as the team's epidemic prevention officer. Last year, Qi Jun was sent by the CFA to the Chinese Super League as the head of the anti-epidemic operation team. According to Yonhap News Agency, South Korea has reported more than 100,000 new cases of the disease, and recently there have been more than 500 new cases in a single day for many days. From this, it is not difficult to understand the CFA organization Qi Jun with the team's behavior.
On the basis of doing a good job of epidemic prevention and making every effort to maintain the health and safety of the whole team, the CFA also encourages China's women's soccer team to make every effort to play well in this Olympic Preliminary Round play-offs. Chen Xuyuan, the president of CFA, specially rushed to Gusu to visit the team before the team's trip and sent care and encouragement. "Advancing to the final stage of the Tokyo Olympics" is by no means an empty slogan, but a common goal for all members of our women's soccer team.
In order to cooperate with our women's football team to do a good job in the pre-game preparation sprint work, the CFA in perfect training conditions, epidemic prevention, information intelligence gathering and other aspects of the team to give maximum support. It is understood that the coaching team had a very clear understanding of the technical and tactical characteristics of the Korean team before they left for Korea. The team has also learned that a referee from Australia will be the referee to enforce the first round of the China-Korea women's soccer match on the 8th. The second round match in Gusu will be officiated by a referee from Japan. The CFA has launched the same business training for our women's soccer team at the same time as it has opened a business course on refereeing and penalty rules for the national men's soccer team.
