The Chinese Women’s football team, comprising 32 members, arrived in Brisbane on the morning of 29 January 2020. The purpose of the visit is to participate in the Olympic Football Qualifiers Tokyo 2020, to be held in Sydney from 3 to 9 February.
The qualifier competition, originally to be played in Wuhan on the said dates, was moved to Nanjing and then to Sydney due to the escalating situation of the coronavirus spreading rapidly across China.
The team left Wuhan on 22 January before the city was locked down, and then moved to Suzhou, a Shanghai neighbourhood city for pre-match training. It then flew from Shanghai directly to Brisbane after the decision taken by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to change the venue for a second time, on 26 January 2020......
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