'Blessing amid misfortune': The Chinese football club at coronavirus ground zero

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The team are split in half, with some players in lockdown and others training, but a modest Chinese club from the epicentre of the coronavirus ...

Some members of Wuhan Three Towns are training in Hainan, while the others are in virus lockdown. SHANGHAI: The team are split in half, with some players in lockdown and others training, but a modest Chinese club from the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic is at last beginning to turn its attentions to football again.

"We were worried about the health of our families and did not know if they were going to be infected and how." The Chinese government, which has begun slowly easing travel curbs, is now concerned about a second wave of infections from people arriving from other countries. They returned to China this week having been stranded in Spain since the end of January. But with nobody allowed in or out of Wuhan the team are in Shenzhen, where they are in quarantine.Yu said the Three Towns players are desperate to get out and meet again, and hope to eventually play a small part in getting the city back on its feet.

 

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