Original title: Can it be difficult to pack tickets or conflict with the Super League after the postponement of the women’s Olympic preliminaries
Article source: Beijing Youth Daily
On February 2, the AFC sent a letter to the Chinese Football Association. In view of the current complex global epidemic situation, which has brought huge difficulties and uncertainties to the football competition, the AFC has negotiated with FIFA and decided to change the original The two-round match between the Chinese women’s football team and the South Korean women’s football team, which is scheduled to be held on February 19th and 24th, will be postponed to April 8th and 13th. It is understood that just before the AFC makes a decision, the Chinese Football Association and the candidate city of Suzhou for the Chinese women’s football home stadium have made a lot of preparations for the event to be held as scheduled. The further postponement of the game also brought more challenges and difficulties to the preparations for the Chinese and Korean Football Associations.
Affected by the epidemic, the two-round match between the Chinese women’s football team and the Korean women’s football team, which was originally scheduled to be held in February last year, was postponed to February 19 and 24 this year. The Chinese and Korean Football Associations and the two participating teams also implemented the preparations for the tournament at this point in time. The women’s football teams of the two countries have recently started their preparatory sprints before the competition. More than a week ago, the AFC also quoted an official of the Korean Football Association as saying that the Football Association and the Korean women’s football coaching staff are optimistic that the game will be held in February as scheduled.
In fact, in order to cooperate with the Chinese women’s football in the Olympic Games, the Chinese Football Association has also made a lot of preparations before this. Before the AFC issued a further postponement notice, the Chinese Football Association had reached a consensus with relevant parties in Suzhou on the hosting of the home games of the Chinese Women’s Football Olympic preliminary round. This is because Suzhou successfully hosted more than half of the 2020 Super League matches last year, and also hosted a number of major events including the Football Association Cup finals, the Super League and the Chinese Premier League promotion playoffs. As a city with excellent anti-epidemic and match-running capabilities, Suzhou City has also undertaken the important task of preparing the national women’s football team for many times before. Therefore, this city is the first choice for the home city of the Chinese Women’s Olympic preliminaries.
The Chinese Football Association has devoted a lot of manpower, material resources and energy to the Chinese women’s football home match for the preliminaries of the Women’s Olympic Games. Last week, the Football Association had instructed the heads of relevant functional departments or business backbones to rush to Suzhou, on the one hand to communicate with the local area on the specific details of the preparations for the game, on the other hand, to “check the missing” for the Chinese women’s football team. The Suzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium is also ready for the competition.
However, as mentioned by the AFC in its letter to the Chinese Football Association, the current global epidemic situation is relatively complicated, and the resulting uncertainties or force majeure factors have directly adversely affected the holding of the game. Affected by the epidemic, many countries (regions) around the world have implemented stricter epidemic prevention measures, including security measures for entry and exit isolation. The exchange of visits between the two teams requires multi-party coordination. In this case, the AFC must “put people first and ensure the health and safety of the participants” on the one hand, and fully respect the opinions of the protagonists of the competition and their member associations on the other. Considering various factors, the AFC finally made the decision to further postpone the game.
According to the official announcement issued by the Chinese Football Association on the evening of the 2nd, the two rounds of the Chinese and Korean women’s football matches were further postponed to April 8th and 13. However, it is currently difficult for all parties to pack tickets for whether the game will be carried out by then. On the one hand, the epidemic is complex and changeable; on the other hand, the postponement of the game has brought difficulties to the arrangement of the Chinese Football Association’s competition plans for other competitions this year. For example, according to the previous plan of the professional league preparatory group, the new season of the Super League will be unveiled in early April at the earliest. After inspection by the joint working team of the Chinese Football Association and the professional league preparatory group, Suzhou and Guangzhou have become the two major candidate cities for the first stage of the new season of the Chinese Super League. If the Chinese women’s football home match against South Korea’s women’s football match is confirmed to be held on April 13, then the Chinese Super League schedule and venue arrangements may also be further adjusted.Return to Sohu to see more
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