My 2021
Endless flights!
During the Round of 40 and the Round of 12, a total of 43,600 kilometers were flown, circling the earth
Of the past 365 days, a total of 186 have been in a closed or isolated state
A total of 43 nucleic acid tests have been carried out at home and abroad, and the blood test has been carried out 6 times
For me, who has long been accustomed to fighting with the team in the south and the north, in previous years, following Chinese football interviews can basically be summed up in one sentence: "Either on a business trip or on a business trip." "Towards the end of 2021, the Chinese men's national football team will set off again to fully impact the Qatar World Cup. Looking back on the past year, if you also summarize it in one sentence, "It's either in closure or isolation, or on the way to closure or isolation!" "Of the 365 days, I spent 186 days in isolation or isolation, and I experienced more than 40 nucleic acid tests and nearly 10 blood tests before and after. The number of nucleic acid tests and blood tests of mine are basically the number of nucleic acid tests and blood tests of all members of the Chinese men's national football team.
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Fly 43,600 kilometers and circle the earth
As a football veteran, "always on the front line, on the spot" is my interview principle, only in the front line, in the scene, can we grasp the first-hand consultation as much as possible, as close as possible to the truth of the facts, but also possible to investigate, understand the causes and consequences. Therefore, since the 1997 Top Ten Tournament began to follow the national football team [at that time there was no chance to follow to the away], since 2001, the national football team has not missed a single World Cup qualifier, even if it is a training camp has not been missed. I have to say, I was lucky. Similarly, after entering 2021, when the Chinese men's football team began to launch the first training camp in Haikou in January, I also rushed to the scene to continue to follow, and the Shanghai training camp in March and the trip to Suzhou in May did not fall.
But on May 30, after China's 7-0 victory over Guam, the sudden change caught everyone off guard. The Chinese men's football team had no choice but to go to Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, to continue to compete, and embarked on a flight to the West on June 3. Frankly speaking, in such a short period of time, that is, the official finalization and release of the news on May 31 to the noon of the 3rd, it is less than 60 hours before and after, and it is necessary to complete all the preparations, and whether it is the Chinese Football Association or the Chinese men's national football team, after losing the home field, they must adjust their mentality in time, and the group qualification and entry into the top 12 is a task that must be completed, and the difficulty during the period is difficult to imagine if you do not experience it yourself.
As far as football journalists are concerned, it is not a simple task to follow the national football team from Suzhou to Shanghai to the United Arab Emirates to complete the declaration procedures and complete the process. During the epidemic period, it is quite difficult for all units to go abroad, even if they travel abroad, and after obtaining approval, they also have to implement many matters such as air tickets. The reason why I call myself "lucky" is that my Sports Weekly newspaper and its leaders have given great support, completed all the necessary procedures and procedures in the shortest possible time, and handed over the passport to me in the first place. And this may reflect from one side why the sports weekly report can "become bigger and stronger", and why it can become the "No.1" in China's sports media.
Just as I was contacting the airline and preparing to fly to the UAE on my own, I received a call from the FA asking if I was going to the UAE. After giving a positive reply, the Football Association let me directly follow the national football team, and made it clear that the reason why I followed the team was mainly from the perspective of epidemic prevention and safety, after all, during the epidemic period, traveling alone, especially going overseas, will encounter various complicated situations, and if you contact and interview the team again, there are also security risks for the national team and the football association work team, and the football association must "eliminate" various possible hidden dangers as much as possible.
It is not that there are no reporters in China who want to follow me, and the Football Association does not just call me to understand the situation, from CCTV to Xinhua News Agency, to many domestic websites and newspapers, many old memories have received similar calls, but they have not been able to do so, precisely because "the unit is simply too late to go through the formalities" and "the unit will not let you go abroad at all". As a result, I was fortunate to become the only domestic football veteran who followed the national football team to the United Arab Emirates to interview the top 40 matches, which also gave rise to a series of claims and rumors.
However, for me personally, I don't care about the various external sayings, nor do I have the time and energy to deal with so much boring gossip, because I have more important things to do. I have to say that without the "green light" of the Football Association this time, I would not have been able to complete the interview work in the early stages of the top 40 and the top 12 so smoothly. When I retire or completely leave the Chinese football industry one day in the future, I can proudly say: "In my career, my most proud and proud thing is that I have never left the Chinese team to impact every game and every step of the World Cup, even the epidemic has not stopped me from following the pace of the national football team, and my national football team interview resume is perfect!" "What's more, the experience and experience of catching up with this once-in-a-century encounter in a lifetime will undoubtedly make your life experience more colorful."
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Not in isolation, on the way to isolation
From June 3 to December 16, when I embarked on the Journey to the West, when I was completely and completely restored to "freedom", it lasted 186 days, and I spent most of my time in isolation or isolation. He has traveled to and from Dubai, United Arab Emirates twice, and between Doha, Qatar, Sharjah and Saudi Jeddah, with a cumulative flight distance of 43,600 kilometers and more than one circle around the earth. Travelling with the national team, he stayed in the uae, Saudi Arabia and Qatar for a total of 74 days in the three West Asian countries, in a completely closed state. During this period, in addition to going to the training ground every day for two hours of training or competition, sitting on the bus and watching the scenery on both sides of the road became the only pleasure, and the rest of the time was spent in the hotel room.
After each return to China, the "14+7+7" quarantine policy needs to be implemented, and the quarantine policy is different in different parts of the country due to the different final destinations returned, so the total time of quarantine before and after the three returns is 77 days. Among them, after returning home after playing the game with saudi Arabia in October, he has not yet completed the second "+7" quarantine, and then re-followed the national football team to Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, so it has not completed the quarantine that should have been 84 days.
During the more than half a year of isolation and isolation, I received 43 nucleic acid tests and 6 blood tests. Because every exit requires a nucleic acid test report, and each time you arrive at your destination, you need to receive another nucleic acid test before entering the country. During the overseas stay, the national team basically conducted nucleic acid testing every three days from the perspective of epidemic prevention and safety. During the period of domestic quarantine, in addition to receiving nucleic acid testing as soon as possible when arriving at Shanghai Pudong Airport, nucleic acid testing is also regularly accepted in accordance with domestic epidemic prevention requirements.
Every time I return to Shanghai from abroad, I need to undergo a blood test. Before the last match of the Round of 40 against Syria, because of the consideration of the immediate need to return home, a blood test was carried out the day before the match, and the blood test was performed again early the next morning after the match. The same is true during the Round of 12.
What I have experienced is basically what everyone in the Chinese men's national football team and the football association work team has experienced, in this kind of objective environment and atmosphere, if it is not personally experienced, it is difficult to appreciate the difficulties of the international footballers. Therefore, I really can't bear to scold our players for not working hard and not being dedicated, and I understand that our players and coaches will have some unexpected words and deeds from time to time. Therefore, in the past six months or so, when writing about the national team, I have repeatedly mentioned "don't think about this national team in a normal way of thinking", because the epidemic has made Chinese football more difficult. When the Chinese Olympic team achieved a good result at the Tokyo Olympic Games, we should see that our team events and physical contact confrontation events were not satisfactory, and one of the main reasons was precisely the epidemic, which made our sports team have too many opportunities for high-level international competitions, and football is certainly no exception.
The pandemic has changed the world, our society and reality. Chinese football survives in social reality and cannot be untouched by shocks and influences. After following Chinese football to the south and the north for more than 20 years, and personally experiencing the scenery of qualifying in the top ten in 2001, I have been looking forward to a second and third time, so I have never given up for so many years.
20 years later, 2021 is destined to be a very special year, I am glad that I once again experienced the whole process of the Chinese men's football team to impact the World Cup, but more is actually a kind of helplessness, not only because the national football team failed to achieve the desired results as the outside world expects, more importantly, although in the information age, but "information asymmetry" is still the norm, in the era of simple pursuit of traffic, more people only look at the results and do not care about the process, in which I have no choice.