In the late afternoon of the 20th, the flames of the new Chinese Super League season will be lit in Guangzhou. Due to schedule adjustments, the game has been delayed by two hours, and Chongqing Two Rivers Athletic, which was scheduled to debut on the same day as Shandong Luneng, will join the Guangzhou team and Guangzhou City to make their official debut at 8:00 pm.
This season's Chinese Super League, the National Football Association has opened the ticket channel, but this does not mean that all games will be open to the public.19 morning, the reporter learned from the two rivers Athletic Club: the first round of the game will not be open to the public stands, so even if the Chongqing fans rushed to the Guangzhou University City, may not be able to get into the sports center stadium for the team to cheer.
▲The new season of Two Rivers Athletics schedule at a glance
As the saying goes, "Good things come in small packages", Two Rivers Athletic Club has encountered a lot of twists and turns as the new season of the Chinese Super League is about to start. However, with the team successfully entering the competition area on the evening of 18th, the preparations around the Chinese Super League have gradually stepped into the right track.
At 14:15, Two Rivers Athletic held its first pre-match press conference of the new season at Guangzhou University City Sports Center Stadium, with head coach Zhang Wailong and defensive core Yang Shuai attending the conference.
Zhang Wailong greeted the on-site media as soon as he appeared on stage: "It's been a long time, our team has been renamed and the lineup has changed a lot, so I hope this year will bring you a brand new look."
Talking about tomorrow night's match, Zhang said, "[The opponent's] specifics we don't know yet, we will go all out to meet this challenge according to the tactical system we prepared before."
▲Zhang Wailong introduces the status of the team
According to the reporter's understanding, the current two rivers Athletic and last year, the same, suffered a "foreign aid drought" - in addition to Bolaños participated in the warm-up matches, Fernandinho even if you can play in the game "to find the feeling! "The new foreign aid Tursunov is difficult to catch the first round of matches due to the demand of epidemic prevention.
But Zhang said the team can overcome the difficulties: "I believe we have seen the last two league games of the previous year (reversing Shandong Luneng to finish sixth, the best record in Chinese Super League history). For us, there are still a lot of players around, so all this experience will help us. Our whole winter training this year has been very difficult and not systematic enough, but our players are very passionate about soccer and I trust their understanding of it! The first league game will definitely have a lot of difficulties, but the players will work with me to overcome them."
Yang Shuai, as one of the new captains of this year's team, also talked about the preparations for the first round, "The biggest change in our team is probably that it's younger compared to the previous year. For the goal of the new season, we are definitely still focusing on relegation, and then we have a very united team now, and we will work together to meet this season."
▲Yang Shuai attended the conference
It is worth mentioning that the first round of matches between Two Rivers Athletic and Shandong Luneng will not open the stands to the public, so Chongqing fans can only focus on the game through live television. A staff member of the Two Rivers Athletic Club told reporters, "The game is too tight, we did not have time to organize the second scene in Chongqing, only fans can organize their own to watch the game, the official second scene is expected to be in May."
