After receiving nucleic acid testing on February 23 and passing the test collectively, the Chinese men's football delegation officially lifted the quarantine at the resident hotel in Shanghai on February 24, and all members were disbanded on the same day.
However, due to the outbreak of the epidemic in Suzhou City, where the hotel that undertook the delegation's post-entry quarantine reception task, and the recent adoption of different epidemic prevention policies by different provinces and cities in China for personnel from the epidemic area, some members of the national football team were forced to abandon their plans to go home for vacation, or stay in Shanghai, or go straight from Shanghai to Haikou City, the place of the new training. Because some international footballers will have to further implement epidemic prevention regulations such as home quarantine after returning to their territories, they may not be able to report to Haikou on March 3 as required by the notice, so the departure date of the Chinese team's western expedition may be a few days later than the originally scheduled March 10.
After receiving a cumulative "14+7" day of closed quarantine in Suzhou according to epidemic prevention regulations, the Chinese men's football delegation was collectively transferred to the resident hotel in Shanghai's Minhang District at noon on February 23 in a "bubble epidemic prevention closed loop" mode. This hotel is also the same hotel that has undertaken the reception task of the national football team for many times last year.
It is understood that after the whole team arrived at the hotel at about 12 noon on the 23rd, all the staff immediately underwent nucleic acid testing on the spot. In the end, all members of the delegation tested negative for nucleic acid, which means that they can officially lift the quarantine on the 24th according to the regulations.
Since the new phase of the national football training will kick off on March 3, it will only take one week from the end of the current period of closed isolation (training) to the start of the next period of training. At this moment, the team members are homesick and homeless. However, due to the impact of the epidemic, different provinces and cities in the mainland have recently updated their epidemic prevention regulations, and have also adopted different degrees of epidemic prevention and control measures for people from cities in the epidemic area.
In this case, head coach Li Xiaopeng, some international footballers and team staff finally gave up their plans to go home in order to reduce travel health risks and avoid affecting the work of the next training camp. The Chinese Football Association has also specially booked hotel rooms in the Pudong New Area of Shanghai for international footballers and staff who have not been able to leave Shanghai in recent days. "The epidemic prevention policies are different in different places, and some places require the cumulative quarantine time of returnees to china to reach 28 days." Some of the team members' children are still young, and some of the team members' lovers are pregnant, and they can't go back at this time, which is really painful," said one of the team members.
It is understood that the international footballers currently staying in Shanghai are mainly from Shandong Taishan Club, and they need further communication with the club on how to arrange their itinerary next.
Although most international footballers have left Shanghai on the 24th to return to their hometowns or club locations, some players still need to implement epidemic prevention regulations such as "home isolation" in accordance with regulations after arriving at their destinations. It is doubtful whether they will be able to arrive in Haikou City on March 3 as scheduled to participate in the next training session.
The Beijing Youth Daily reporter learned that the Chinese Football Association previously planned to arrange for the national football team to fly directly from Haikou to the United Arab Emirates on March 10 (the destination is Dubai or Sharjah to be determined). However, considering that some personnel arrived at the team late, affecting the team's preparation in the local stage, the association is likely to postpone the delegation's western expedition by about 5 days. Since the 1999 age group U23 national football team will travel to the United Arab Emirates on the same plane as the national football team to participate in the Dubai Cup International Youth Football Invitational Tournament to be held from 20 to 28 March, the association also needs to take into account the schedule of the two teams when it comes to confirming the specific itinerary.
According to the training notice previously issued by the Chinese Football Association, five naturalized (naturalized) players and Li Lei, who plays in the Swiss Super League, must go to the matching place to meet the team at the latest on March 18. This means that the latest time of the national football journey to the west will not exceed the 17th. It is worth noting that Li Lei's Swiss Grasshoppers will host a Swiss super-heavy game with Basel at home on March 20. Therefore, the coaching staff of the national team must also consider whether to agree to his participation in this game and then run to West Asia, after all, the travel conditions from Zurich to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates are still relatively convenient.
In the 8th round of the round of 12 on February 1, the national football team lost to Vietnam for the first time in the historic away game, setting a new record of shame and failing to reach the final round of the World Cup in Qatar in advance. Such a result also makes this team deeply involved in the "verbal criticism" of public opinion, but from the perspective of recent preparations, the team's training is relatively normal. Judging from the fact that some coaches, players and staff gave up their vacations and went directly to the new training site, they did not give up on playing the last 2 rounds of the round of 12.
Text/Beiqing Sports Xiao Zhao