The Chinese Football League will impose a ban on the hugging of the players who scored goals, and the attendance of the fans, after the launch of the pending competitions following the outbreak of the new epidemic of "Corona" virus, according to press reports yesterday.
The Chinese League aspires to launch its season at the end of June or early July, while local soccer officials have drawn up a detailed plan to keep players healthy.
League matches will be played without fans, before being allowed to enter gradually, according to official media reports.
Then the spectators have to move away for at least one meter, according to the "Beijing Youth Daily" daily, while the replacements also move away from each other with the necessity of wearing masks. The report indicated that the association will cancel amulets, handshaking between the two teams, and the rest of the activities, and continued that the photographers area will be shortened in the area behind the goal and the sideline, and after scoring the goals the players are not allowed to hug, and the celebrations will be replaced by applause, and the organizers' plans need government approval to start the season.
The league was scheduled to start on February 22nd, but it became the first victim of the sport virus, after being indefinitely postponed in January. But Chinese football tends to launch its championships, after the authorities announced the curbing of local infection. The Chinese Football Association showed interest in the way the league returned, in both South Korea and Germany, where the tournament was resumed despite great fears of a re-spread of the virus, which has killed many people in most countries of the world.
But what distinguishes the Chinese league in this regard is that it will allow the return of the masses, but under strict health conditions, and this is something that may make China lead in it, compared to the rest of the other leagues that are not in its plan for the resumption of competition activity, the return of the fans. In Korea and Germany, the league wheel returned to spinning, but with empty steps, and so did Italy and England, who are preparing to resume the competition. China is generally betting on the success of its plan to contain the virus, especially in its stronghold in Wuhan, where life has gradually started to return to normal, in order to ensure the return of the masses, and provide the highest requirements of security and safety.
- The competition was suspended on February 22, after the outbreak of the Corona virus, and it is expected to resume at the end of next June.