Chinese Football Association: The national football team has an emergency charter flight to Dubai, and problems such as fan refunds will be solved

The Paper's reporter Song Chengliang was sent from Suzhou

Suddenly, the storm changed.

On the 31st, the Chinese Football Association officially announced that due to the maldives and Syria can not come to China to participate in the competition as scheduled, the remaining matches of the National Football World Preliminary Round Group A will not be held in Suzhou and will be transferred to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

The sudden loss of the home stadium has made the national football team's top 40 qualifying plan sharply variable - in Dubai, facing Syria and the Philippines, will the national football team still get the planned victory?

For this sudden change, the Chinese Football Association held a press conference in Suzhou at 17:00 on the 31st, and Dai Xiaowei, director of the Media and Public Relations Department of the Chinese Football Association, and Luo Zhao, director of the International Department of the Chinese Football Association, attended.

First of all, the national football team introduced the current situation of the Syrian team and the Maldives team - 49 Syrian teams, 8 people have a history of new crown disease, 11 people have various problems, basically all of them test positive, and they are not given health codes.

There were 34 people in the Maldives team, 4 tested positive within 21 days, one person in the second round of testing was suspected positive, one person in the first round was positive, and 6 people tested positive for serum. All the rest of the players are close contacts and cannot get health codes, and the whole team cannot come to China. In the end, the charter flight did not take off, resulting in a delay in the formation of the two teams.

The Football Association said that at present, there are more than 440 staff in suzhou, and all service personnel are thousands of people - "holding a different place will bring difficulties and inconvenience to the national football competition, but the prevention and control of the epidemic is the most important." The Chinese Football Association has held a meeting with the Suzhou Municipal Government, including tickets, business and other matters will be resolved. ”

The Football Association also revealed that the national team is still urgently arranging charter flights for the Chinese men's football team, Guam team and competition officials, planning to go to Dubai on the evening of June 2.

The schedule of the Round of 40 will also be adjusted, and there are still consultations with the AFC, which will submit fifa to apply after receiving the preliminary proposal.

Dai Xiaowei said, "When the national team participates in Dubai, it is necessary to comply with the local government's epidemic prevention regulations, and the Football Association will also create the best conditions for the national team." Returning to China must also comply with the epidemic prevention regulations of inbound personnel, so it is likely to affect the original Chinese Super League arrangement. ”

"Although this game has changed suddenly, I believe that the players will definitely go to the game with the confidence of winning and have the confidence to play well."

According to the Beijing Youth Daily, the national football team will set up a 150-person security team to ensure the safety of food, clothing, shelter and transportation for the national team in overseas competitions.

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