Out at last! Chinese football teams exit 70-day virus 'bubble'

Chinese Super League team members have not seen their families since mid-July, and were only allowed to leave the hotels to play matches and train AFP/STRSHANGHAI: Chinese Super League teams on Monday began filtering out of sealed-off hotels where they have been confined for the past 10 weeks as part of strict measures to thwart COVID-19.

There were no reported infections during the first phase, after which Fabio Cannavaro's reigning champions Guangzhou Evergrande were top in Dalian and Shanghai SIPG led in Suzhou."When you're here before the season starts you have 10 weeks in a hotel here in Dalian, your first thought is: It's going to be very hard, it's hard for everyone," Giovanni van Bronckhorst, the former Barcelona star now in charge of Guangzhou R&F, said.

"We talk about serious things, we share jokes, we know more about each other's stories, we learn from each other, we laugh a lot, we created new friendships," the 32-year-old Moises wrote. Each team played two matches a week, with the season starting behind closed doors on Jul 25 to limit the risk of virus infections.READ: China bans players for six months after COVID-19 rules broken

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