The Chinese Football Association responds to hot issues such as “changes in the top management of the Football Association” and “sea cucumber advertisements”
2022-04-07 11:17:37Source: Xinhuanet
Xinhua News Agency, Haikou, April 6 (Reporters Xiao Shiyao, Gongbing) With the Chinese men’s football team’s defeat in the Qatar World Cup, Chinese football has recently attracted widespread attention and caused considerable controversy.
Recently, there have been many fake news involving the Chinese Football Association and the Chinese Men’s Football Team in the media. The spokesperson of the Chinese Football Association said in an interview on the 6th that many rumors about the “change of senior personnel of the Football Association” are untrue, and the Football Association is currently carrying out various work in an orderly manner.
“Recent rumors from the media about the changes in the top management of the Football Association are all untrue.” The spokesperson said, “The national team did not perform well in the World Preliminaries. The Chinese Football Association must first reflect and summarize. But at the same time of reflection, all work is going on normally, and the construction of the national team has not stopped.”
The spokesperson said that this year’s national team also has the important task of the Hangzhou Asian Games. The U23 men’s football and women’s national teams will compete at home. The U23 men’s football team will also represent China in the East Asia Cup held in July. The team’s preparation work has been fully advanced.
“At the same time, the preparatory team of the Chinese Football Association and the Professional Football Federation is continuing to promote the preparations for the men’s and women’s football professional leagues at all levels, and has made various plans according to the requirements of epidemic prevention and control. The Women’s Super League will be the first to open in Haikou on April 7. , I hope fans who support Chinese women’s football can pay more attention. In addition, the Chinese Football Association is cooperating with the Ministry of Education and other relevant departments, and the national youth football leagues of all ages will also be fully launched. “The spokesperson said.
Regarding the news such as “National Football Team Hundreds of Luxury Tour Groups” and “Hotel Packages”, the spokesperson responded: “It’s not complicated how many people are in a team that competes in competitions. The Chinese Football Association will announce on the official website every time at all levels. The national team training list, including players, coaching staff (head coach, assistant coach, goalkeeper coach, physical fitness coach), team leader, team management, team doctor, rehabilitation specialist, physiotherapist, press officer, technical analysis, translation, equipment management, Foreign affairs management, etc. For a football team of international standards, it is normal for the number of coaches and working teams to be similar to the number of players. In March this year, the national football team and the U23 national football team went to West Asia to participate in the competition. All the members of the two teams added up to 89 people, plus the accompanying team. The total number of work support personnel in competition, epidemic prevention, logistics support, foreign affairs and media is less than 110.”
“Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the Chinese men’s and women’s national football teams have gone abroad to participate in the World Preliminaries, Olympic Preliminaries, Asian Cups and other competitions and overseas training 9 times, including 3 for women’s football and 6 for men’s football. At the same time, there were hundreds of people in the two teams, and there was no case of epidemic infection during the period. The core measures to ensure the safety of overseas epidemic prevention and personnel health are to take epidemic prevention management measures such as booking hotel floors, setting up separate entry and exit channels, and strictly prohibiting going out without permission. Reduce contact with the outside world. The men’s national football team and the work team will live in various closed environments for more than 200 days in less than a year from participating in the top 40 matches to the end of this quarantine,” the spokesperson said.
In addition, in response to rumors involving national team sponsors such as “sea cucumber advertisements”, the spokesperson said: “The sources of funds for the training and competition of national teams at all levels of the Chinese men’s and women’s football teams mainly come from the Chinese Football Association’s self-raised sponsorship from the market. Football teams and sponsors are very important. Many well-known companies have spared no effort to support the ‘Team China’ for a long time. Xiaoqin sea cucumber is also one of the signed sponsors of the ‘Team China’. In return for the sponsors , it is a reasonable commercial requirement for the national team players to properly cooperate with sponsor promotion, which is very common in world football and other sports.”