Yui Hasegawa, the playmaker, joined the Japan national team's general practice for the women's soccer match against North Korea in the final Asian qualifying round for the Paris Olympics. Meanwhile, in an unusual situation, the venue for the first match scheduled for February 24th was not decided until the 19th, five days before the match, and the players are being forced to make difficult preparations.

Nadeshiko Japan, the Japanese women's national team, is holding a training camp in Chiba City in preparation for the final Asian qualifying round. Hasegawa, who plays in the English Super League, joined the team, and from the 19th they participated in general practice, including shooting practice. I spent a lot of time adjusting it.



The final Asian qualifying match against North Korea will be played in a home and away format, with the first away match originally scheduled to be played on the 24th in Pyongyang, North Korea.



However, in early February, the Asian Football Confederation announced that it would be difficult to prepare for the match due to the lack of regular flights between North Korea and other countries due to the novel coronavirus, and the Asian Football Confederation decided to move North Korea to a neutral venue. I suggested that we consider holding the event.



According to a source from the Japan Football Association, there has since been coordination between the Asian Football Confederation and North Korea, and there is information that Saudi Arabia and China in the Middle East have been considered as candidate locations, but the coordination has been difficult and the match has been postponed. This is an unusual situation in which the decision was not made until the 19th, five days ago.



The players have been forced to make difficult preparations for the match, and Minami Tanaka, one of the key players in the attack, said, ``It could be a hot country, and we don't really know where it will be, so we have to deal with various situations.'' We have no choice but to anticipate and do what we can.Even if we try to take measures tailored to each location, it is only a period of time, so we have no choice but to get through it mentally.''