Posted on 03/14/2020 12:59:28 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
MADRID - The Chinese soccer team that was originally stuck in Spain because of the coronavirus outbreak is going back home to try to avoid its rapid spread in Europe.
Wuhan Zall was expected to return to China on Saturday, nearly 1 1/2 months after it arrived in Spain for preseason training. The team had not been able to leave because of the restrictions in China, but expedited its departure because of the worsening situation in Spain.
The team initially planned to leave Spain mid-February but had extended its stay in the southern region of the country until at least the end of March. That plan changed this week because of the sharp spike in the number of cases in Spain and Europe generally.
“Things are well over there (in China) now,” José González, the team’s Spanish coach, told The Associated Press on Saturday. “The Chinese league will likely start at the beginning of May. We will have to enter quarantine when we arrive, so the sooner we leave, the better.”
The team will first go to the city of Shenzhen, where it is expected to finish its preseason training for the Chinese Super League, the country’s main first-division soccer competition. The league was supposed to start on Feb. 22 but was suspended because of the virus.
The city of Wuhan was the epicenter of the outbreak that rapidly spread to other countries and infected more than 145,000 people worldwide, with 5,400 deaths.
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Can we now say the Chinese soccer team is racist against playing Hispanic Spain.
so the stupid Spaniards let them in?
Can’t get much more ironic than that.
Wuhan soccer team leaving Spain to escape virus
Stupid is as stupid does.
One can’t make this shit up! Why has Spain allowed the Wuhan team come to their country?
Well, ain’t that a kick in the shin...
The Chinese team can’t train in China? They have to go to Spain for that?
Sounds more like a vacation.
The team hadn’t been in Wuhan for months before the outbreak but had been playing over 600 miles away. They let them in Spain in January.
Spain didn’t want to show concern because they knew what happened to people who posted Wuhan Bioweapons Lab Flu articles on FR.
Priceless.
So that’s why it’s so bad in Spain now?
Madrid also pulled a Wuhan by having an outbreak, letting their people flee to all parts of Spain then after it was too late calling an emergency. I live in a coastal resort town and they asked people from Madrid to stay away.
Man, ain't THAT the truth ! !
LOL (kinda)
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Rapinoe and her homies out to go play in Spain. And stay in Spain.
It sounds like you have found the source of why Spain
is starting to supersede Italy as the Wuhan hot-spot in Europe.
A coincidence ?
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