This coming tomorrow night, Shenhua soccer team will hold a grand departure ceremony at Kangqiao base. After the ceremony, the team will embark on their journey and take a bus to Suzhou, where they will officially stay at the Taimei Xiangguli Hotel. In the first match of the new season, Shenhua will face Beijing Guoan on April 23rd.
And before that, the club has announced the 32-man registration list for Shenhua's first team for the 2021 season. But not all players will travel with the team to Suzhou. Zhu Chenjie, who is recovering from surgery due to an injury, will not be able to play all the matches in the first phase of the league. In addition, Zhu Yue and He Longhai will represent Shanghai and Guangdong respectively due to their commitments in the National Games qualifiers. As a result, the Shenhua team for the trip to Suzhou may only have 29 players.
It is worth mentioning that the Shenhua team's departure ceremony broke the tradition of going to the Oriental Pearl Tower in previous years, but put the ceremony in Kangqiao Base. The ceremony also invited some of the fans to participate, fans can watch the team up close before the departure of the last training session, and in the Shenhua press conference hall to take a group photo, cheering for the team.
In addition, today the FA also released the arrangement for the selection of referees for the first round of the league. Shenhua and Guoan's focal battle will be refereed by Wang Jing from Guizhou, while Kim Kyung-won will be the var video assistant referee. Wang Jing has been refereeing in the Chinese League B since 2012, the Chinese League A since 2014, and the Chinese Super League since 2016.In 2019, Wang Jing was promoted to international referee along with Li Haixin.
