1 1 That night, after careful consideration, China Football Association decided to give up sending U22 national football team to participate in this competition, and U22 national football team gave up U23 Asian Cup qualifiers due to epidemic situation.
The U22 national football team gave up the U23 Asian Cup qualifiers 1 due to the epidemic. Due to the epidemic, 1999-year-old China U22 national football team was forced to withdraw from the upcoming Group G of the 5th U23 Asian Cup qualifier in Tajikistan later this month. On the evening of 65438+1October 1 1, the China Football Association confirmed the news through official channels. The U22 national football team at the training base of Xianghe National Team will finish training ahead of schedule in the near future, and the players will immediately return to various clubs to prepare for the FA Cup.
On October 5th, 65438/kloc-0, the U22 national football team blew the assembly number again in Xianghe. Prior to this, AFC has confirmed that the venue of Group G of the 5th U23 Asian Cup qualifier will be changed from Indonesia to Tajikistan, and the schedule of Group G has also been adjusted. Therefore, it is widely believed that with the reunion of China U22 team, the team will participate in this tournament with a high probability. But in the end, affected by force majeure, China Football Association finally made a decision to give up arranging teams to visit the game. The main reason for retiring is the continuous international epidemic.
As a matter of fact, as early as early as July, when the results of the group draw for the U23 Asian Cup qualifiers were released, the China Football Association had already submitted an application to the relevant departments to visit the competition, and the answer was "No team was recommended", because the Indonesian epidemic was serious at that time, the relevant parties and the Chinese Football Association would give priority to maintaining the health and safety of the players. Subsequently, the China Football Association further communicated with the AFC and proposed to change the venue. According to the suggestion of China Football Association and Australian Football Association, AFC finally decided to change the venue to Tajikistan.
However, the epidemic prevention measures introduced by Tajikistan have worried the China Football Association. For example, Tajikistan will host Group G competition in China and Group B competition in Tajikistan. Although the Brunei team in Group G has retired, the host arranged the remaining seven teams of the two groups in three hotels, and only provided two training grounds for the seven teams to use. What is even more worrying is that seven teams will use the venue of 1-Dushanbe Central Stadium. This means that once the China team participates in the competition, it will inevitably come into contact with other players, which undoubtedly increases the risk of infecting COVID-19. Obviously, such access and epidemic prevention conditions are quite different from the "bubble" epidemic prevention closed-loop measures implemented by the national men's football team during the World Cup preliminaries.
Not long ago, South Korean women's football team went to Uzbekistan to participate in the women's Asian Cup qualifiers. After the team returned to Korea, two players and 1 staff were confirmed to be infected with COVID-19 virus, so the Korean Football Association had to postpone the start date of its women's football league.
In addition to important epidemic prevention work. The problem of air tickets cannot be ignored. Affected by the epidemic, the number of international flights between countries (regions) in the world has decreased significantly. There is considerable uncertainty about whether the U22 national football team can return to China in time once it visits the competition. Specifically, according to the epidemic prevention and personnel entry policy currently implemented in China, passengers returning home by international flights are generally not allowed to transfer at the third place, and can only board the plane after obtaining the healthy green code for returning home. At present, there are no direct flights between China and Tajikistan. Even if the U22 national football team goes abroad to participate in the competition and is allowed to transit back to China through a third place due to special circumstances, flights from Central Asian countries are basically once a week. In this way, even if China finished the U23 Asian Cup qualifier group match on June 2nd 165438+ according to the calendar, it would be difficult to determine the flight back to China in a short time. Because most international players of U22 national football team are also important players of professional clubs at all levels in China, even the main players, if the team can't return to China in time, it will cause more trouble.
In this way, after careful consideration, China Football Association decided to give up sending U22 national football team to participate in this competition, so as to safeguard the health and safety of personnel to the maximum extent.
1 1 In the evening, the China Football Association officially confirmed through the "China Football Team" that "due to epidemic prevention and control and flight restrictions, China U22 national men's soccer team could not go to Tajikistan to participate in the 2022 AFC U23 Asian Cup qualifiers as planned, and had to regret to withdraw from this competition."
The official statement also revealed, "Next, the U22 national men's soccer team will continue its rigorous training under the leadership of head coach Jangovich to prepare for the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games." In fact, the team participated in the 5th U23 Asian Cup just for the Asian Games training. However, after the team retired, China Football Association had to find another way to create international warm-up opportunities for U22 national football team.
The U22 national football team gave up the U23 Asian Cup qualifiers due to the epidemic. According to reporter Ma Dexing, the U22 national football team (1999 age group) has applied to withdraw from the U23 Asian Cup qualifier 5438+00 in late June. Earlier, the Football Association just announced the training list of U22 national football team, and in the preliminaries, U22 national football team was in the same group as Australia, Indonesia and Brunei.
At the end of September, China Football Association just announced the list of U22 national football training. Because Zhu He played in the 12 final with the national football team, he was not on the list.
However, it is worth mentioning that the preparation of U22 national football team is relatively late among several teams, and the Indonesian team has already started training. China Football Association also stated in the training notice that the training is for the preliminaries of the U23 Asian Cup. "In order to fully prepare for the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games and the U-23 Men's Football Cup, and at the same time strengthen the reserve talents of the men's national football team, the U-22 National Men's Football Team is scheduled to organize training at Xianghe National Football Training Base from May 5 to 23, 20021+/KLOC-0."
In the previous U23 Asian Cup preliminaries, the national football team was in the same group as Australia, Indonesia and Brunei. Indonesia was originally the host of this group, but due to the big environment, the group stage was moved to Tajikistan.
However, whether the U22 national football team can go abroad needs the approval of relevant departments, which is why the team didn't start training until June 5,/kloc-0. According to reporter Ma Dexing, the China Football Association has applied to the AFC to withdraw from the U23 Asian Cup qualifiers. The main round of U23 Asian Cup, which starts next year, does not involve the allocation of Olympic tickets, but China's non-participation will affect the next grading and grouping.