Chinanews.com, July 25th. After 237 days, the 2020 Super League season finally kicked off as expected.
Theatrical performances in previous years were cancelled, and "fighting the epidemic" became the focus of the first game day both inside and outside.
"Return, mourning, and tribute" are the themes of the opening ceremony of the new season of the Super League. "Silent ceremony" and "tribute to the anti-epidemic heroes" have also become the most special links.
After a one-minute silence, medical workers, soldiers, police, and community workers...the heroes who were brave enough to fight the epidemic were flashed on the big screen through the VCR.
At this time, everyone on the scene, including players and referees, will face the rostrum together and make a gesture of "right thumb to praise the left atrium" to pay tribute to the 22 anti-epidemic representatives from all walks of life who came to the scene. Tribute to the epidemic heroes.
22 anti-epidemic representatives from all walks of life who attended the scene
In the next two months, 16 Chinese Super League teams will compete in the two major divisions. Although the competition system has changed compared to the past, in this special season full of unknown factors, it has added a lot of unprecedented highlights and suspense.
In the end, in the opening game of the new season of the Chinese Super League, defending champion Guangzhou Evergrande helped the team beat Shanghai Shenhua 2-0 with two brilliant goals by forward Wei Shihao and won a good start.
Wei Shihao scored an instant.
In the arena, the two sides faced each other tit-for-tat, striving to sound the clarion call for the new season's championship in the Super League with a victory;
Outside the arena, the situation of epidemic prevention and control in Dalian City brooks no delay. It is also a stalemate battlefield for all sectors of society to fight the virus.
On the afternoon of the 25th, the Information Office of Dalian Municipal People's Government held a press conference to report the latest situation of the city’s epidemic prevention and control. According to the report, from 15:00 on July 24 to 14:00 on July 25, there were 24 new cases of asymptomatic infection in Dalian, Liaoning, and a total of 12 confirmed cases.
The rebound of the epidemic once made the prospect of the Chinese Super League, which was already ready to go, bewildering.
In the end, Gao Hongbo, vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association, announced at the 21st press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Dalian that the 2020 Super League matches will proceed as scheduled.
The Dalian Municipal People's Government Information Office held a press conference site. Photo by Deng Hanzhu
The smooth start of the Super League has reawakened the Chinese fans’ lack of green memory for nearly a year, but to ensure that the opening whistle can be blown at the Dalian Sports Center Stadium, it is inseparable from the weight of the organizers, medical staff and other staff to move forward.
It is an extraordinary move in extraordinary times. "Game system + empty field" is an unconventional action taken by the Chinese Super League during the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic.
In the context of the recent emergence of multiple confirmed cases of local new coronary pneumonia in Dalian, the epidemic prevention and control work in the Dalian Division has also been further refined and optimized guarantee plans and work plans.
Strictly complete the epidemic prevention training for event security personnel
Strictly do a good job of nucleic acid testing for event personnel
Strictly formulate a guarantee work plan
Strictly implement closed management of blue and green areas
Strictly guarantee personnel health management
Strictly inspect meat and seafood in designated hotels
Among them, the "six strict" measures will ensure that there is no case of new crown infection in the 2020 Chinese Super League Dalian competition, and strive to make the league healthy and orderly.
The Dalian Division of the Chinese Super League will be divided into different colors for management and control of participants. There are three color areas: the closed isolation area is the blue area, the green area is the green area, and the purple area for club personnel to temporarily watch the game.
The picture shows the panorama of Dalian Sports Center Stadium. Photo by Deng Hanzhu
During the game, strictly closed and isolated management will be implemented for the team's hotel and training venue. Without the approval of the Executive Office of the Super League Epidemic Prevention and Control Leading Group Competition Area, it is strictly forbidden to leave the closed area (blue area) and non-closed area (green area) without permission. Personnel are not allowed to enter the blue zone without permission.
In addition, all club personnel undergo a nucleic acid test once a week, and the test results are normal before training and competition can be conducted.
Food security is also the top priority of epidemic prevention and control.
It is reported that the Dalian Municipal Market Supervision Administration organizes and coordinates the meat and seafood suppliers of designated hotels, and the Municipal Center for Disease Control conducts sampling and testing, and feeds the report back to the food safety commissioner of the designated hotel.
When designated hotels receive meat and seafood supplies, the food safety officer must compare the goods with the nucleic acid test report.
According to Qi Jun, the leader of the Chinese Football Association's professional league epidemic prevention team, once there is a violation of epidemic prevention work, there will be corresponding strict penalties, and even one violation will be required to leave the competition area and thus unable to participate in this year's Super League.
Photo courtesy of Qi Jun, leader of the epidemic prevention team of the Chinese Football Association Professional League
"Summoning billions of hearts", the duel between Guangzhou Evergrande and Shanghai Shenhua successfully sounded the prelude to the new season of the Super League. But the first step of the Long March, the next two months, no matter whether it is on or off the court, there can be no errors in any link.
At a critical moment in the fight against the epidemic, epidemic prevention work determines the success of a game to a certain extent.
The Chinese Super League is a large-scale competition held in a special period. Due to its long time span, large number of participants, heavy security tasks, and high social attention, the epidemic prevention and control work is bound to continue to receive extensive attention. (Author Wang Yu)