After 21 days of closed isolation and community health monitoring in Gushu and Shanghai, our men's soccer team was disbanded at noon on July 8 at the resident hotel in Minhang District, Shanghai. The players then returned to their respective clubs to prepare for the Chinese Super League, which will resume in the middle of this month. It is reported that in order to prepare for the Qatar World Cup Asian Zone 12 tournament, which will start on September 2, China's men's football team plans to regroup around August 15, and the venue is likely to remain Shanghai. Striker Wu Lei, who plays for Espanyol, is expected to depart from Shanghai around the 14th of this month to join the club's preparations for the new season in Spain. If the national football team in the second half of the new training to go outside the country to train, warm-up, Wu Lei will go directly from Spain to the training place or game place to join the team.
Men's soccer completes health monitoring
According to the domestic epidemic prevention regulations, all members of our men's football team entered the country from Shanghai on June 17, and have been under quarantine observation and community health monitoring in Gusu and Shanghai.On July 1, after the whole team was transferred from Gusu to Shanghai, some members of the team who live in Shanghai returned home to quarantine on their own according to the local epidemic prevention regulations. And part of the international players in strict compliance with the premise of epidemic prevention regulations, but also in Shanghai and the club team to meet, such as Guoan, Luneng's international players due to the club's recent preparations for Shanghai, and with the national football team to live in the same hotel, and therefore was able to return to the team in advance, to participate in the afternoon of the 7th between the two teams of the internal teaching match. Other members of the national football team returned to their respective clubs on July 8 after the community health monitoring period.
New training session to be held in Shanghai
In order to assist the national football team to prepare for the war, the CFA, after communicating with the preparatory team of the CFA (working league) and the Chinese Super League clubs, decided to conduct two matches of the fifth round of the Chinese Super League and the remaining nine rounds of the first phase (rounds 6 to 14) of the tournament between July 15 and Aug. 12, and compressed the full-season fixture schedule from 30 rounds to 22 rounds as originally scheduled. According to the league schedule, the national football team initially determined to set the start of the new phase of training on August 15 or so. Prior to this, the CFA national football preparations to protect the working group has been part of the Shanghai area candidate venues, hotels for inspection, not surprisingly, the first phase of the new phase of the national football training will be organized in Shanghai, the specific training place may be the previous many times to receive the national football training Houpaier Football Park.
The new phase of training for the national football team to advance and extend the cycle, one of the important reasons is that the coaching staff hope that before the start of the 12 strong match, for the team to organize some of the high-quality warm-up matches, in order to help the whole team to adapt to the high-intensity, fast-paced matches of the World Preliminary Cup. In view of the current international epidemic situation is grim and domestic epidemic prevention work under great pressure, the new phase of training may be organized in the domestic and overseas respectively, so that the organization is also in order to allow the national football team to implement the international warm-up program. At present, the CFA is actively communicating with all relevant parties, on the one hand, for the team to fight for home games of various facilities, on the other hand, for the possible accidents in advance to formulate a plan, and in due course with the international soccer organizations and relevant member associations to communicate with a variety of game organization.
Wu Lei will join the national football team directly from Spain
As the only international player playing for an overseas club, Wu Lei is scheduled to depart from Shanghai around July 14 and travel to Spain to join Espanyol, and then participate in the team's preparations for the new La Liga season.
The schedule shows that the national soccer team will face Australia on the road in the first round of the 12-team tournament. Although up to now, the Australian team has not yet confirmed whether the game can be played in its own country, but even so, the team will probably be a third place as the "home", which means that the first round of the national football team to participate in the first round of the game outside the country is almost a foregone conclusion. In this case, if the national football team to go outside the country before the game to train, then Wu Lei will also be from Spain directly to the training place and the team to meet.
According to the requirements of the AFC, the 12 strong tournament participating member associations should be submitted to their respective teams (national team) 12 strong tournament home and alternative home field organization of the program on the 16th of this month at the latest. It is reported that the CFA is currently actively communicating with all relevant parties, the detailed program is expected to be introduced next week.
