SHANGHAI, April 30 — Many footballers dread the rigours of pre-season training but in China they could be forgiven for hating it by now as stop-start preparations drag into a fifth month because of the coronavirus. The Chinese Super League (CSL) was one of the earliest sporting victims of the...
File photo shows people attending the ground-breaking ceremony of Chinese Super League side Guangzhou Evergrande’s new stadium in Guangzhou in China’s southern Guangdong province April 16, 2020. — AFP pic
The CSL could now begin in late June or early July but the uncertainty has left teams at all three levels of professional football treading water since the start of the year. The never-ending pre-season — punctuated by short holidays and periods of quarantine — is the opposite of the problem facing clubs in Europe.
Coach Choi Kang-Hee said that the fitness his players built up in the UAE in February and March had been lost.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Covid, Corona and Lockdown: The newborns named after a pandemic | Malay MailMANILA, April 29 — First there was Corona Kumar, then Covid Marie: Parents have taken to naming newborns after the coronavirus, apparently unperturbed by the prospect of their children being forever associated with a deadly pandemic. When Colline Tabesa gave birth to a healthy baby girl in the...
Read more »
Virus condemns Chinese football to endless pre-seasonMatch fitness built up early in the year have been lost due to halt of competitions. FMTNews CSL PreSeason Football
Read more »
Trump confident that coronavirus may have originated in Chinese lab | Malay MailWASHINGTON, May 1 — US President Donald Trump said yesterday he was confident the coronavirus may have originated in a Chinese virology lab, but declined to describe the evidence, ratcheting up tensions with Beijing over the origins of the deadly disease. Trump did not mince words at a White...
Read more »
China reports 12 new coronavirus cases vs 4 a day earlier | Malay MailSHANGHAI, May 1 — China reported 12 new coronavirus cases for April 30, up from four a day earlier, data from the country's health authority showed today. Six of the cases were imported, the National Health Commission (NHC) said, up from four a day earlier. Of the domestic transmission cases,...
Read more »
Nairobi hair salon defies pandemic with ‘coronavirus’ style | Malay MailNAIROBI, April 30 — Through winces and grins, two girls wearing face masks and surrounded by posters of different hairstyles bowed their heads for their hairdressers. But the spiky look they were getting — “the coronavirus” — was still too new to appear on any poster. In Kibera, Kenya’s...
Read more »
S.Korea reports no new domestic coronavirus cases, first time since Feb peak | Malay MailSEOUL, April 30 ― South Korea today reported no new domestic coronavirus cases for the first time since February, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said. KCDC reported four new infections, all imported cases, taking the national tally to 10,765. The death toll rose by...
Read more »