Under the epidemic, the Chinese Super League is in trouble!

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As temperatures pick up, spring begins to move into all regions of the country. However, Chinese football still seems to be chilling. After the Chinese men's football team was eclipsed by the round of 12, the Chinese Football Association had been looking forward to restoring the home-and-away system and allowing fans to return to the Chinese Super League, and because of the changes in the situation of epidemic prevention and control, it once again faced severe challenges.

The 2022 Season of the Chinese Super League was originally scheduled to start on April 23, but due to changes in the entry arrangements of the Chinese Men's National Football Team and the U23 Men's National Football Team in West Asia, the return time was a few days later, which also led to a corresponding postponement of the Start of the Chinese Super League. At the same time, due to the changes in the domestic epidemic situation, the Chinese Super League has also changed from the home and away system that many parties have worked hard to pursue at the beginning, and have to change to the first stage to be held in the first stage. On this basis, the Chinese Football Association and the Preparatory Group of the China Football Federation still promote a series of work in the professional league step by step, including access review, participation confirmation and competition area selection. Just this week, the special inspection working group of the Preparatory Group of the China Football Federation went to some candidate cities to investigate and promote the selection of the first stage of the professional league. According to the plan, the Chinese Football Association will announce the participating teams and schedules for the new season next week.

Helplessly, the severe situation of the epidemic in Shanghai has disrupted the plans of the Chinese Football Association, the Preparatory Group of the China Football Federation and some cities that were originally willing to host the tournament to a certain extent. Some cities have exchanged and communicated with the Chinese Football Association and the Preparatory Group of the China Football Federation on the matter of hosting the competition, but due to the impact of the epidemic, the cities in these candidate areas are also facing a severe epidemic prevention and control situation, and can only temporarily shelve the intention of hosting the tournament system. Like Chengdu, which is about to usher in the Universiade, Hangzhou, which will usher in the Asian Games, and some cities that will host large-scale international sports events this year, in order to ensure the normal development of the preparations for the event, but also for the consideration of epidemic prevention and control, they face many uncertainties in continuing to host the Chinese Professional Football League. To this end, the Preparatory Group of the China Football Federation has formulated more emergency plans accordingly, and the latest news shows that the possibility of arranging the events of some groups of the Chinese Super League in large football bases with prominent closed conditions is not ruled out.

Even if the various divisions hosting the league can be determined, how some teams can go to the city of the division to train and compete is still a very real problem. At present, the situation of epidemic prevention and control in Shanghai is grim, which has also caused a lot of impact on the sports teams in Shanghai. At present, the Shanghai men's and women's volleyball teams are training in the club's base, and the Shanghai men's basketball team is directly transferred from the Shenyang division to the Nanchang division by the organizing committee after the CBA regular season, and the team's playoff journey has not been hindered by the epidemic. In the first leg of the CBA playoff quarter-quarter series on the evening of the 8th, the Shanghai men's basketball team once fell behind double digits, and turned shenzhen 120-118, taking the lead in three two-win games. After the game, from Li Chunjiang's guidance to Wang Zhelin and other core players, the Shanghai men's basketball team paid tribute to the workers and Shanghai citizens who were fighting in the frontline of the fight against the epidemic, and the whole team dedicated a victory to the city in the fight against the epidemic.

Shanghai women's football team also started their new season of women's super league journey in Haikou this week, and shook hands with Beijing women's football team 1-1 in the first round of competition. Compared with the Shanghai women's football team, which left Shanghai early for spring training and then participated in the national championships and women's super leagues, the Shenhua Upper Body Women's Football Team, which has not left Shanghai, chose to withdraw from the first stage of the new season of the Women's League A in Kunming Haigeng.

The Shanghai women's football team drew 1-1 with beijing women's football in the first round of the women's Super League

In contrast, Shencheng's two Chinese Super League teams, Shanghai Shenhua and Shanghai Harbor, are not so easy to make the decision to withdraw from the competition. The harbor team, which has been renting the Century Park training base for training, has been suspended for three weeks because of the closure of the base, and there is no hope of resuming training in a short period of time.

Train at home in the sea

Shanghai Shenhua has a Kangqiao base and has recently maintained a closed-loop preparation in the base, but due to the impact of the epidemic, it is difficult for the Shenhua team to play warm-up matches with other teams, and can only test the training results through intra-team confrontation. In fact, the situation of the two Chinese Super League teams in Shanghai Beach will also deeply affect the start time of the new season of the Chinese Super League. Even if the league can determine the division in time and advance smoothly according to the current plan, if the two Shanghai teams still cannot leave Shanghai at that time, the league still cannot start normally. Because whether it is the Chinese Super League starts as planned, let other teams play the game first, wait for the two Shanghai teams to unblock and then go to the make-up game, or organize the two Shanghai teams into a six-team group, the group will wait for the Shanghai team to unseal the plan and then start the game, it is not so easy to implement.

Recall that on the eve of the start of the 2020 season of the Chinese Super League, although the Wuhan passage from Han was closed at that time, the Wuhan team has been practicing outside, and the team has the objective conditions to enter the division on time, and the postponement of the start of the Chinese Super League that season is mainly due to the coordination time with the AFC Champions League and the determination of the plan of the conference system. Now, the two teams in Shanghai account for one-ninth of the top 18 of the Chinese Super League, they can not leave Shanghai, the Chinese Football Association and the Chinese Super League have indeed encountered new problems.

In fact, more than two Shanghai teams have been affected by the changes in the epidemic situation, and some clubs have also encountered similar practical difficulties, coupled with the remaining problems in the club's funds, and the team's training and signing have encountered no small challenges. Considering the objective difficulties faced by the club, the Chinese Football Association also plans to postpone the transfer deadline originally scheduled for April 15 by two weeks. As for when the Chinese Super League will start, it can only be said that there are too many uncertainties that can affect the start time.