Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 16. In view of the development of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in the Middle East, the Chinese men's football team, which is training in Dubai, UAE, decided to end training early. In order to ensure the safety of the players, the whole team will take a chartered flight to return home, but the return date has not yet been determined. The picture of
comes from the official Weibo of the Chinese football team
. It is reported that the Chinese men’s football team has begun to contact the deployment of charter flights, but it has been unable to make the trip due to the uncertain domestic landing city. The Chinese Football Association said that they are urgently coordinating the matter.
The recent development of the epidemic in Dubai and surrounding areas was unexpected. On March 13, the number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the Middle East exceeded 10,000. In view of this, the Chinese men's football team decided to end Li Tie's second training camp ahead of schedule. They started training in Dubai on the 4th of this month, and originally planned to train for 16 days.
Due to the unexpected development of the surrounding epidemic situation, the Chinese men's football team cancelled the two warm-up matches originally planned to be played during the training camp in Dubai.
Text editor: Zhang Yueshan
New media editor: Intern Li Wentao, Wu Junkuan
Issued: Liang Jinxiong
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