in the wake of
national soccer team
The tournament moves to Sharjah, UAE, for a full season of
China Super League (soccer league)
The league seems to have been pulled a fine line, the restart of the node and the end of the form is suddenly full of uncertainty. Although the Chinese Super League clubs have not yet received a clear notice from the CFA, but from the existing information, the original plan to restart the first phase of the league on June 21 may be delayed for about a month, a lot of teams' training program has also been adjusted.
Shanghai Shenhua (soccer team)
The regrouping of the team began on May 27th. Manager Choi Kang-hee envisioned that the focus of the players would increase dramatically if they could achieve full closed-door training ahead of the competition. The original plan was to start the two-week closed training on June 1, but on May 31, the CFA issued a statement on the change of venue for the remaining matches of the 40-team tournament, agreeing that the remaining matches in Group A would no longer be played in Suzhou, while the
national soccer team
The decision was made to move to the UAE to continue the tournament.
Taking into account the international players after the game to return home to comply with the domestic epidemic isolation policy, according to the "14 + 7" quarantine provisions of the calculation, the earliest they can not be released from quarantine until the beginning of July, so the restart of the Premier League may be scheduled in mid-July.
Shenhua's coaching staff decided after deliberation that the team would take a long vacation for the time being in order to avoid unnecessary exertion while waiting for the schedule to be finalized.
Looking back, the team suffered from continuous preparation last season, moving from Haikou to the UAE, plus a quarantine period, and drifting around for a cumulative 81 days, followed by more than three months of in-situ training in Shanghai, during which time there was almost no downtime. The long hours of preparation led to the initial focus gradually dissipating. It was based on last year's experience that the coaching staff chose to take a temporary vacation this time.
