Chinanews.net Client, March 10th. The Chinese Football Association announced on the evening of the 9th that due to the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the Chinese Women's and Korean Women's Olympic preliminaries will be postponed to June. This is the second time the game has been postponed.
Data map: Chinese women's football team in the Olympic preliminaries. Photo by China News Agency reporter Tao Shelan
The Football Association ’s announcement reads: “FIFA has announced that for public health and safety reasons, after the Chinese Football Association and the Korean Football Association have jointly applied for and discussed with the AFC, they have decided to put the Chinese team and the Korean team in the Olympic Women ’s Asian Qualifiers. The playoffs will be postponed to June 4 and 9, 2020. "
"According to the original schedule, the China-Korea battle was originally scheduled to be held on March 6 and 12 in Yongin, South Korea and Sydney, Australia. However, due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the AFC announced that the two rounds of the two teams of China and South Korea The game will be postponed to April 9 and 14. Then at the AFC emergency meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on the 2nd of this month, the Chinese and South Korean Football Associations further applied with the AFC to propose that the game be postponed to June. Program. "
"The Chinese women's football team returned to China after finishing their training in Sydney on March 6. They will regroup before the play-off. At that time, the Chinese and South Korean teams will compete for a place in the Tokyo Olympics after two rounds of home and away matches. , The venue and kick-off time for the two rounds of competition have not yet been determined. "(End)