Chinanews.com client Beijing, August 26. According to the official news of the Chinese football team, at 7 am local time on the 26th in Qatar, after nearly 12 hours of trek, the Chinese national men's football team successfully arrived at the resident hotel in Doha.
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The national football team set off for Doha in the early morning of the 26th, Beijing time, to prepare for the World Preliminary Top 12 Asian Tournament.
On September 2 and 7, Beijing time, the national football team will play against Australia and Japan respectively at the Khalifa International Stadium.
For this venue, national football soldiers and Chinese fans are no strangers.
In the final round of the top 12 World Preliminaries held on September 6, 2017, although the national football team defeated Qatar 2:1, they failed to qualify for the World Preliminaries play-offs by 1 point, and the South Korean team was second in the group to the World Cup. It was only 3 points short.
After 1450 days, the national football team, which passed the test of the top 40 stage after several twists and turns, once again entered the top 12 tournament.
It is understood that at noon on the 26th local time, the National Football Team will accept the nucleic acid test organized by the local epidemic prevention department, and will be isolated in the hotel awaiting the test results.
The Chinese team was divided into Group B in the top 12 matches, and the opponents in the same group were Japan, Vietnam, Australia, Saudi Arabia and Oman.
The top two of each group can directly qualify for the Qatar World Cup finals, and the third place of the two groups will have to compete to determine a ticket for the play-offs.
In the previous top 40 matches, the Chinese team won 6 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, and qualified from the top 40 as second in the group; while in the top 12 matches, the Japanese and Australian teams both entered the top 12 with complete victories. .
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