Data map: Wuhan streets during the epidemic. Photo by Zou Hao, China News Agency

Lan Aihua, who has been in Wuhan, has been at home for more than 60 days. Her community is only 500 meters from the South China Seafood Market. When the outbreak began, her son Liu Yiheng, who played in Spain all year round, sent her a message every day, telling her family to take precautions and take care of her body.

At that time, Lan Aihua was more panic and boring. She was most looking forward to the afternoon of the day. This is a fixed link in which she and her son report daily peace. Yi Heng's instructions often make her feel warm.

Now that the situation of domestic epidemic prevention and control is gradually improving, Lan Aihua's lingering heart has been slow to let go-because the epidemic in Spain is serious. Worries and anxieties about her son lingered on her and her husband's heart, and the deep worry made the old couple sleepless.

Currently in the three towns of Wuhan, Spain. Photo courtesy of respondents.

The same situation also exists in more than 100 other families. Their children, like Yi Heng, are the Wuhan Three Town echelon players who have been playing and training in Spain all year round. They are also natives of Wuhan.

More than ten days ago, another domestic football club echelon player who lived in the same building as them was diagnosed. This news is even more exciting for parents.

Data map: Due to the local outbreak of new crown pneumonia, all state museums in Madrid, Spain have been closed.

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"Be sure to go to bed early, get up early, wash your hands frequently, and wear a mask ..." A similar charge told Lan Aihua to tell her son every day. Across the ocean, all she can do now is ask.

"There is a bad signal over there. We ca n’t talk on the phone. We can only type, ask the situation, and ask a few words. We have many parents of players who want their children to return to their country. After all, they will be more at ease in front of them, but now they have been blocked. Can't come back. "

In addition to reporting peace with her son, she updates daily about the Spanish epidemic. "We have experienced the epidemic in Wuhan, so it is really worrying to see the situation there. Now there are children all over our heads, but it is useless to worry." Lan Aihua sighed deeply.

As their son plays abroad all year round, the Lan Aihua couples have long been used to the days when their children are not around. Although they often miss and hope that the children can spend the New Year at home, they respect their son's dream of playing football.

Liu Yiheng's Wuhan Three Town Echelon team has participated in the Catalonia Regional League in Barcelona, ​​Spain, all year round. Photo courtesy of respondents.

If it is said that the thoughts of the son can be self-regulated before, but under the epidemic situation, their husband and wife have been unable to let go of their worries.

"We know it ’s useless to worry about it, but it ’s uncontrolled, just an instinctive reaction. The child is okay in front of him, and he is really insecure when he is not in front of us. We do n’t particularly understand how to control the epidemic abroad. . "Speaking of this, Lan Aihua's speech speed has increased a lot.

According to the original plan, at the end of June this year, Liu Yiheng will be able to return to China to play the game and also take this opportunity to reunite with his family. But the epidemic came suddenly, and the journey home had to be postponed.

When the Spanish epidemic had not yet erupted, the team was still training and playing locally. Photo courtesy

Hundreds of people drifting overseas

This year is Liu Yiheng's fifth year in Spain, and he has long been used to living away from home after playing for a long time. But under the epidemic, Yi Heng admits that he is a little homesick. "It's fake to say you don't want to be home, but now you are grown up and know what you want."

Liu Yiheng is currently in the 2003 echelon of the three towns of Wuhan. The team also has five other overseas echelons of different ages. The players are aged 13 to 18, with a total of 107 people. Like Yiheng, they also have the dream of football, training in Barcelona, ​​Spain, and participating in the regional league of Catalonia.

When the epidemic has not spread locally, Liu Yiheng and his teammates will pay special attention to precautions. "After all, they are from Wuhan. We know the situation in Wuhan, so we paid great attention to it from the beginning, but the local people's idea at that time was ordinary flu, and it was not serious. We walked on the road wearing masks, and some locals looked at us. They're all different. "However, over time, Spain's epidemic situation suddenly became severe.

Data map: On February 16, Beijing time, the Spaniards tied Seville 2: 2. Chinese player Wu Lei debuted and broke the goal in the 49th minute of the game to help the team overtake the score 2: 1.

The rapid spread of the epidemic made Spain have to make a decision to completely suspend sports games. The team that Yiheng was on received a notice on the 11th requesting to suspend all training and games, and the team immediately went into isolation.

The complex environment once plagued the team into a struggle about whether to return to China. Song Junshan, who is responsible for the epidemic prevention of the team, said: "If we stay in Spain, once there is a problem, medical resources here are likely to be insufficient. And the players in the sports team are daily Together, if someone gets sick, the spread will be very fast. "

"But if we return to China, there will be great security risks whether at the airport or on the plane. In addition, we have about 120 coaches. With such a large team, once someone is infected, it will cause huge pressure in the country."

Between the dilemmas, the team chose to stay in Spain.

The team is in the mountains of Spain. Photo courtesy of respondents.

"Isolated from the world"

On the 15th day, the fourth day of the suspension, Liu Yiheng and the team "fully armed" smoothly transferred to a mountain 150 kilometers away from Barcelona. From the foot of the mountain to the base of the mountain, driving will take more than half an hour on the Panshan Highway.

This base has been used to receive summer camp activities before, and can accommodate more than 1,000 people. Now they are "chartered" by the team that Yiheng belongs to.

"The Catalan site has a very high utilization rate, and it is very difficult to find a base with a relatively closed environment and accommodation. Fortunately, the process of our search was smooth and the logistics support of this base was relatively sufficient," Song Junshan said.

The football field where the team is based. Photo courtesy of respondents.

Although the new base is very safe, when I first arrived here, the closed environment still bored Liu Yiheng who was accustomed to the rhythm of training and competition: "Now I take a walk and relax during the prescribed time every day, and I spend the rest of my time in the room, doing strength, Do some school assignments, and then sleep. "

The echelon coach Wang Ludi was also a bit uncomfortable. He said, "(Place) is too biased, and can't do anything, and can't get out. The network is very slow, videos and news can't be seen anymore, only WeChat text chat is available. Chat. One afternoon, there was no internet for 5 hours in a row, there was no mobile phone signal, nothing could be done, it was really isolated from the world. "

According to the original plan, the team will stay in the mountains for two weeks, and then make the next step according to the situation outside.

Now two weeks have passed. As the outbreak in Spain is getting worse, they will continue to be “isolated” from the mountains for a while. This is also the best haven they can find in the epidemic.

Apart from the boring life of isolation, Liu Yiheng sometimes thinks about the life after the epidemic ended: "I haven't played football for 20 days, the most I want to do after the epidemic is to play football. I should be particularly excited at that time"

(Author: Li Liqun)