In the late afternoon of May 8th, Shanghai Seaport soccer team arrived in Dalian by special plane and entered the base of Dalian People's Football Club according to the closed-loop transfer process. Thus, Shenhua and Harbor teams returning from the infected area successfully completed the transfer task, marking the restart of this season's Chinese Super League after a most difficult and critical moment.
In the previous 24 hours, the Shanghai Shenhua team had completed their transit and checked into the Dalianren base ahead of schedule. Players Wu Xi and Zhu Chenjie and other members of the national team arrived earlier than the Shenhua team, Zhu Chenjie has been stranded in Haikou and did not return to Shanghai after the end of the national team training due to the epidemic; while Wu Xi returned to Nanjing briefly to visit his family, and then flew to Dalian to join the team.
Harbour team internationals Yan Junling and Stanley Wang chose to return to Shanghai first to reunite with their families after finishing training in Haikou. After all, they have been separated for several months, and although the outbreak is serious, the feeling of longing for them is hard to express. They then followed the team to a hotel on the outskirts of Shanghai for a week of isolation before departing for Dalian. Newcomers Zhang Linpeng and Xu Xin joined the team in Guangzhou, where they met up with head coach Leco and foreign aid worker Paulinho and traveled to Dalian together.
Arriving in Dalian with Shenhua are Shi Xiaotian and Li Songyi, who have been training in Shenhua's Kangqiao base for more than a month. After completing their isolation in Dalian, they were finally able to meet up with their new owners.
It is worth mentioning that the name of Shenhua's former foreign aid worker Adrian appeared in the list of the harbor chartered plane. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, he has not been quarantined at the Kangqiao base, but lived in his rented house in Shanghai, and could only follow the seaport charter flight to Dalian.
Both teams underwent several nucleic acid tests before departing from Shanghai. After arriving at the Dalianren base, they will implement single-occupancy, single-room, no-foot-in-the-house immunization measures for a week. During this period, the players are not allowed to leave the room, three meals are sent to the room by a person, in addition, there are medical staff to the door once a day to conduct a nucleic acid test.
At the end of the isolation period, if there are no unusual circumstances, the two teams will conduct their daily training at the Dalian People's Base, subject to the continued implementation of closed-loop management and the avoidance of contact between the two teams.
