At 18:00 Beijing time today (January 20), the Chinese women's football team will face the Chinese Taipei women's football team in the first round of the group stage of the Women's Asian Cup, which is also the first international match after the new coach of the Chinese women's football team, Shui Qingxia, took office.
Chinese women's football coach Shui Qingxia picture according to IC photo
In this Women's Asian Cup, the Chinese women's football team is in the same group as the Chinese Taipei women's football team, the Iranian women's football team and the host India women's football team, the opponent is generally not strong, and the Chinese women's football team should be easier to qualify. On the morning of January 19, the Chinese women's football team officially announced that Tang Jiali, the last registered player to play for the Women's Tottenham Hotspur Football Team, had passed the nucleic acid test and completed the shooting of the official makeup photos required by the AFC and officially returned to the team. Before the Asian Cup is about to start, all 23 members of the Chinese women's football team are in place. Chinese women's football captain Wang Shanshan said before the game: "This team is composed of three generations of old, middle and young people, and I hope that our new collective can play a spirit in the game and show the style of our Chinese women's football team to Asia and the world." ”
It is difficult for the three opponents in the group stage to pose a threat to the Chinese women's football team, and at present, it seems that the most important issue in the group stage of the Chinese women's football team is the epidemic prevention work. Just before the start of the Asian Cup, the host India women's football team officially issued a statement saying that two members of the team have tested positive for the new crown and are being quarantined in designated medical care institutions. The Indian Women's Football Team said: "The Indian Football Association values the health and safety of its players and follows all necessary health protocols established by the AFC. ”
This is not the first time that teams participating in this women's Asian Cup have had positive cases, and the Vietnamese women's football team has previously traveled to Spain for a month-long training camp and warmed up matches with four local women's football club teams. As a result, because of the presence of infected players in one of the opponents, the Vietnamese women's football team ended its training camp in Spain and was ready to go to India to participate in the Women's Asian Cup, and 11 people in the team were confirmed to be infected with the new crown virus, including 9 players. In order to catch up with the start of the Asian Cup of women's football, the Vietnam women's football team let 6 players who passed the nucleic acid test and head coach Medron and others go to India first, while the other 23 people (players and staff) stayed in Spain temporarily. But one of the first Vietnamese female soccer players to arrive in India tested positive for nucleic acid and is currently only able to undergo isolation treatment.
At the pre-match press conference of the Chinese women's football team, head coach Shui Qingxia and Chairman Wang Shanshan pictured according to IC photo
In addition, Japanese female footballer Shina Iwabuchi arrived in India and tested positive for nucleic acid and was an asymptomatic infected person. After arriving in India in the early morning of January 16, the South Korean women's football team also found that 3 players and 3 staff members tested positive for nucleic acid, all of whom were also asymptomatic infected, and the above personnel are also currently in isolation.
At present, the epidemic situation in India is still very severe, coupled with the infection of many participating teams, it also puts forward higher requirements for the epidemic prevention work of the Chinese women's football team. It is reported that this trip to India, the Chinese women's football team in accordance with the previous national football team to participate in the world preliminary competition of the epidemic prevention standards, carrying a large number of epidemic prevention supplies, the whole team travel in accordance with the "bubble epidemic prevention closed loop" management, last year the Chinese women's football team has been to overseas combat many times, including participating in the Tokyo Olympic Games, such epidemic prevention management measures are not unfamiliar.
The Chinese women's football team hosted a total of three teams at the hotel in Mumbai, and the AFC divided separate activity areas and access channels for each team. Before departure, the Chinese Football Association communicated with the Organizing Committee of the Asian Cup of women's football, requiring that the rooms where the chinese women's football team lived would not be separated, and finally the Chinese women's football team had three separate floors in the hotel, and each player had a separate room, which would also reduce contact with the outside world and other teams to a certain extent.
Red Star News reporter Jiang Shan
Edited by Ou Peng
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