Guangzhou Daily reporter, China Super League Dalian Division
How will the players live after two months of closure?
The exclusive restaurant of Guangzhou Evergrande. Photo by Liao Yi, an all-media reporter of Guangzhou Daily
The hotel where the team stays will become the "player's home". Photo by Liao Yi, an all-media reporter of Guangzhou Daily
All-media correspondent Zhang Zhe, Guangzhou Daily, Dalian, July 22nd
In three days, the first stage of the 2020 Chinese Super League will be fully ignited in Dalian and Suzhou. The three teams from Guangzhou Evergrande, Guangzhou R&F and Shenzhen Kaisa Guangdong have all entered the Dalian Division this time. The special correspondent team of Guangzhou Daily will unveil the Dalian Division for you.
Epidemic prevention is the top priority
Security level comparable to the Beijing Olympics
The current Chinese Super League is promoted against the background of achieving major strategic results in epidemic prevention and control and entering normalized management and control. It is an important symbol of the full resumption of work and production in the sports industry. Therefore, the Chinese Football Association regards the epidemic prevention work of the Chinese Super League as a top priority. While ensuring the excitement and fairness of the game, it must also ensure that no epidemic infection occurs during the league.
In accordance with the relevant requirements of the "Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Epidemics in the Chinese Football Association Professional League", the Dalian Division has designated an international zone at the airport for the landing of Chinese Super League players' flights, and set up a special channel for Chinese Super League players. The entire channel is isolated from other passengers and personnel. Special personnel will guide the players directly into the nucleic acid detection area. Dalian Airport has a total of 12 sampling rooms to collect nucleic acid samples at the same time. It only takes 15 minutes to complete nucleic acid sampling for a team.
After passing the test, the team can conduct related training games and other activities in the competition area. At the same time, the Dalian competition area staff, volunteers, media, venues and hotel service personnel also all carried out nucleic acid tests. As of 24:00 on July 20th, 836 people have been tested in the Dalian competition area, including 435 players in the team player coaching team and work team, and 401 people in the competition area work team and security team, and the media. The test results are all negative. Next, during the competition, the personnel in the enclosed area shall undergo antibody testing once a month and nucleic acid testing once a week. All test results are normal before training and competition can continue.
The Dalian Organizing Committee divides all league participants into blue, green and purple areas. Personnel in different areas shall wear different color certificates, personnel of different color certificates shall not touch each other, and the flow lines between different areas shall not cross. The blue area is a fully enclosed area with the highest level of epidemic prevention, including hotels, training grounds, game infields and other scenes. All teams, referees, officials, and official media staff must be in a fully enclosed area for 70 days. For activities in the blue zone, only certain means of transportation can be used to enter and exit every day, which is basically "insulated" from the outside world. At present, there are protective nets on the periphery of hotels, training grounds and competition fields, and all persons and vehicles that do not meet the requirements are prohibited from entering. Its security level is comparable to that of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
No need to worry about food, clothing, shelter
"Exclusive butler" first-class service
The 8 teams from the Dalian Division will stay at the Crowne Plaza Dalian Sports Center in the Sports New City area this time. More than 400 players, coaches and team staff will live and live here in a closed area for more than two months. It will soon become the base camp for each team and a veritable "player's home".
In order to meet the epidemic prevention requirements while keeping the 8 teams from eating and lodging in the hotel and holding team meetings without interfering with each other, the hotel arranges one team to stay on every two floors, and each team also has its own restaurant and meeting room. Among them, Shenzhen Foot will settle on floors 6-7, Guangzhou R&F will occupy floors 10-11, and Guangzhou Evergrande will occupy floors 22-23. The standard configuration of each team is 2 suites, 16 single rooms, 16 double rooms and two equipment rooms.
As the leading unit of food and drug safety of the organizing committee of the competition area, the Dalian Municipal Market Supervision Bureau deduces and implements and implements the safety protection work plan of the hotel's food processing areas, athlete restaurants and special equipment protection points one by one. The hotel strictly guarantees the safety of food materials and operates in strict accordance with food safety operation procedures, including foods that are cooked thoroughly, samples are kept for each meal, and pork-free foods and pork products throughout the process. The hotel provides Chinese and Western buffets for three meals a day for each team. Eight sets of menus are used in rotation. The team can provide 10%-20% of personalized dishes, but the ingredients cannot be purchased by themselves, and no takeaway food can be ordered.
As the hotel implements long-term fully closed management, in order to meet the needs of each team in a timely manner, the hotel provides exclusive butler services for each team. In order to meet the ice demand of the team, the hotel has prepared 20 ice machines, which can produce 4 tons of ice per day. In order to meet the team's demand for changing clothes, the hotel also prepared a number of large-capacity washing machines and dryers. If the average weight of each team uniform is about 0.3 kilograms, and the average person washes 3 pieces per day, the hotel can wash them within one hour at the same time.
At the same time, in order to help the players during the closure period, in addition to opening the original gym, swimming pool and coffee break area to the teams, the hotel also specially designed entertainment facilities such as game rooms, KTV and VR for the players. You can choose the way of entertainment and relaxation through online appointment. The hotel also provides courier and haircut services for teams.
Three venues in place
Guangzhou Shuangxiong has its own training field
The Dalian Division has prepared three venues for the first stage of the Chinese Super League: Dalian Sports Center Stadium, Dalian Football Youth Training Base Main Stadium, and Dalian Jinzhou Stadium. The three competition venues are 5 minutes, 3 minutes and 30 minutes by car from the hotel where the team is staying. During the entire first stage of the game, each team will take turns playing in the above three stadiums.
The Dalian Sports Center Stadium is one of the main venues of the 2013 Liaoning National Games. It has been the regular home stadium of the Dalianers in the past few seasons. It not only has advanced and complete facilities, but also has sufficient experience in hosting competitions. It is the first choice for large-scale events in Dalian. In the Chinese Super League, the Dalian Sports Center Stadium will provide three separate training venues for Shandong Luneng, Henan Jianye and Jiangsu Suning teams. In order to deal with the possibility of more damage to the stadium lawn, the Dalian Sports Center Stadium has prepared sufficient spare lawns to replace them in time.
Golden State Stadium has hosted the home games of the top 10 national football matches in 1997. This stadium with a history of more than 20 years is the oldest venue in the Dalian Division of the Chinese Super League, and it is also the one with the greatest transformation and greatest changes. In order to welcome the Chinese Super League, the plastic track around the stadium lawn is fully covered with artificial turf, and the seats have been completely refurbished, which can be described as old and new.
It has been less than seven months since the Dalian People's Football Youth Training Base was completed and used. It cost 2 billion yuan and has a total construction area of 86,000 square meters. The base consists of a 5000-seat competition court and 22 practice courts. It can meet the daily needs of a total of 600 coaches and athletes from 18 teams of Dalian Football Club, including the first team, reserve team, youth team and women's football team.
As the youngest stadium in Dalian, the main stadium of the Dalian Football Youth Training Base is a professional football stadium that can meet the needs of high-definition broadcasting. The lawn reaches world-class standards and is the only venue in Dalian that can host 2 league matches in one day. The base’s 22 training fields include 12 standard courts, 6 lighted courts, 2 heated lawn courts and 2 indoor courts. Among them, Guangzhou Evergrande, Guangzhou R&F, Dalian Ren, Shanghai Shenhua and Shenzhen Football Team's exclusive training venues are all located in the base.