national soccer team
The transfer of the tournament to Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates has affected the whole situation, and the restart time and the end of this season's Chinese Super League are full of uncertainties. Although the Chinese Super League clubs have not yet received the official notice from the Football Association, but according to the current situation, the original plan to restart the first phase of the league on June 21 has basically determined to postpone about a month, many teams have to adjust the training program.
Shanghai Shenhua (soccer team)
reassemble on May 27th. Head coach Choi Kang-hee hopes that the team will prepare for the next stage of the tournament with a full closed-door training program, which will greatly enhance the players' focus on the game. The team was scheduled to begin a two-week closed-door training on June 1st. However, just on May 31, the Football Association issued a statement on the relocation of the remaining matches of the 40-team tournament, agreeing that the remaining matches of the 40-team tournament Group A will no longer be held in Suzhou, while the
national soccer team
The decision was made to travel to the UAE to continue competing.
Considering that the international players need to comply with the domestic epidemic quarantine policy when they return home after the game, according to the "14+7" quarantine requirements, they can only be released from quarantine at the earliest in early July, so the Chinese Super League may restart in mid-July. After discussions among the coaching staff, it was decided that the team would take a temporary vacation in order to prevent unnecessary exertion while waiting for the confirmation of the schedule.
In fact, the team suffered from back-to-back preparations last season, first traveling from Haikou to the UAE, plus a quarantine period that saw them drift outside for a cumulative total of 81 days, followed by more than three months of in-situ training in Shanghai. That's how they hardly stopped while waiting for news of the start of the Chinese Super League. The concentration accumulated at the beginning of the training was gradually dissipated by the long preparation period. Based on the experience of the previous year, the coaching staff made the decision to take a vacation this time.
