In the upcoming Tokyo Olympics Women's Football Qualifier Asian Zone Playoff, China's women's football team will start the first round with South Korea's women's football team on the afternoon of April 8 at the Goyang Stadium in South Korea.At noon of April 5, China's women's football team led by head coach Jia Xiuquan and leader Zheng Chaoyong left from Gusu Taimei Xiangguri Hotel, took the afternoon flight from Shanghai to Seoul, South Korea, to get ready for this crucial battle. Preparation.
Our women's soccer team traveled to South Korea with the goal of winning and laying the foundation for entering the final stage of the Olympic Games. At the same time, to ensure that the life and health of the team personnel is also the most important priority of the visit. It is reported that the CFA, in addition to sending Zheng Chaoyong and Luo Zhao to be responsible for the team's daily life, training and foreign affairs during the period in South Korea, has also sent Qi Jun, who has rich experience in epidemic prevention in Chinese Premier League matches, to be the Epidemic Prevention Officer for the visit. The AFC has also confirmed that it will assign Australian and Japanese referees to enforce the two rounds of matches between the Chinese and Korean women's soccer teams. It can be seen that the CFA has made a lot of meticulous preparations to help our women's soccer team play well in this tournament.
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. According to the plan, China's women's soccer team left for South Korea on April 5 to prepare for the first round of away matches.
Our women's soccer team left the Gusu Resident Hotel at noon on April 5, and then went to Shanghai Pudong International Airport to take a flight to Seoul, South Korea, at 4:00 pm. Affected by the epidemic, the two rounds of China-Korea women's soccer matches were repeatedly postponed from the original schedule in 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 smooth progress of the match could not be separated from the positive communication and cooperation between the Chinese and Korean Football Associations, relevant departments of the two governments and the AFC.
An important condition for the women's soccer teams of China and South Korea to be able to prepare for the match according to the latest schedule is that the two teams must ensure that the epidemic prevention work is foolproof during the match between the two countries. It is reported that our women's soccer team arrived in Seoul at 6:00 p.m. local time on the 5th, and will go to the quarantine address by car under special escort. After confirming the health of all members on the following day, our women's soccer team will then go to the competition area and enter the hotel. The team will then live, train and play according to 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 soccer team to do a good job in the preparations for the competition in South Korea, the CFA sent Zheng Chaoyong, the leader of the team, and Luo Zhao, the minister of the team, in addition to the team, but also sent Qi Jun, who has a wealth of experience in epidemic prevention, to be the team's epidemiology officer. Last year, Qi Jun was sent by the CFA to the Chinese Super League as the head of the epidemic prevention 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. It is not difficult to understand why the CFA organized Qi Jun to accompany the team.
On the basis of doing a good job of epidemic prevention and making every effort to protect the health and safety of the entire 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 traveled and sent care and encouragement. "Advancing to the final stage of the Tokyo Olympics" is by no means an empty slogan, but the goal of our women's soccer team.
It is in order to help China's women's football team to do a good job of pre-tournament preparations for the sprint work, the Chinese Football Association in the improvement of training conditions, epidemic prevention, information intelligence collection and other aspects of the team to give maximum support. It is understood that the coaching team has a very clear understanding of the technical and tactical characteristics of the Korean team before leaving 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. While the CFA has opened a course on the affairs of refereeing and penalty rules for the national men's soccer team, it has actually launched the same affairs training for the women's soccer team in China.
