Most of the Chinese Super League teams have already exercised collectively since Monday, although with precautionary measures during these first days so there are no important contacts on the lawn. At least, for a while longer until the coronavirus epidemic is completely disappearing in the Asian country. The return to training will cause the championship to start in a few weeks, and that the positive of the Belgian Marouane Fellaini should delay him somewhat more than expected. Fellaini is admitted these days after apparently contracting the disease on a recent trip to Dubai.
The images on Wednesday of the Shanghai SIPG soccer players exercising in the well-known Pudong district of the most populous city in China However, they must contribute to giving hope of return to soccer in the rest of the world, especially that of the great European leagues, which do not yet have a return date with the coronavirus pandemic at its peak for most countries of the Old Continent. “We started training more smoothly, mainly focused on getting ready,” said defender Yu Hai. “With the days we will increase the intensity. But this is the best start to overcome the difficulties of the last months,” Hai continued.
Footballers were in Pudong But not yet the Portuguese coach Vitor Pereira, who arrived from Europe a few days ago with his assistants and, therefore, was quarantined by the Chinese government. Pereira will start training his men in no time. Fellaini, will take a little longer, because after his positive the disease must pass and then a few more days of quarantine in the Chinese city of Jinan, about 300 kilometers south of the capital, Beijing.
The Chinese team exercises in isolation in the city of Sanya after returning last Monday from a concentration in Dubai, a city in the United Arab Emirates. The footballers of the Asian national team expressed concern that Wu Lei, teammate and footballer of Espanyol, has been infected by the coronavirus in Barcelona.