The Asian Football Association confirmed that the Chinese team was the first team in the top 40 FIFA World Cup qualification.

Xinhua News Agency, Kuala Lumpur, June 17 (reporter Lin Hao, Yu Wei) FIFA announced on the 17th that the draw ceremony for the top 40 of the 2022 Qatar World Cup Asian qualifiers will be held on July 17 at the headquarters of the Asian Football Association in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Chinese team confirmed it as the first team.

The Asian Football League said that the 40 teams in the top 40 stage will be divided into 8 groups, with 5 teams in each group for double-cycle matches. The competition will be held between September 5, 2019 and June 9, 202020. the first place of the eight groups and the second place of the four best scores will be promoted to the last round of the Asian qualifiers, namely the top 12.

FIFA also confirmed the division of the top 40 teams according to the FIFA ranking on June 14, 2019. 40 teams are divided into 5 gears and 8 teams in each gear.

In this issue, the Chinese team ranked 73rd in the world and 8th in the affiliated teams of the Asian Football Association. Therefore, it is the same as Iran, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Qatar, UAE and Saudi Arabia ranked first.

39 of the teams participating in the top 40 have been confirmed. In the first stage of the Qatar World Cup Asian qualifiers, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Guam, Malaysia and Mongolia were ranked out.

The Last quota will be generated between Macao, China and Sri Lanka. The Asian Football League said that the result of the competition was still being confirmed.

FIFA said that the Top 40 was also the qualifier of China Asian Cup in 2023. The team who is promoted to the top 12 will be qualified for the Asian Cup. In addition to these 12 teams, the top 24 teams will compete for the remaining 12 Asian Cup seats separately.

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics countdown 1000 Days event held


On May 10, guests started countdown board. On that day, the 1000-day countdown to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics was held in Beijing Olympic Park. Photo by Ju Huanzong, Xinhua News Agency reporter

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 10 (reporter Wang yongjiye) the 1000-day countdown to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing was held in the south square of Beijing Olympic Park Ling Long Pagoda on the evening of the 10th.

Cai Qi, secretary of Beijing Municipal Party Committee and chairman of Beijing winter and Olympic organizing committee, director of the State General Administration of Sports, executive chairman of Beijing winter and Olympic organizing committee, Chen Jining, mayor of Beijing and executive chairman of Beijing winter and Olympic organizing committee, governor of Hebei province, xu Qin, executive chairman of Beijing Winter Olympic organizing committee, Zhang Haidi, chairman of China Disabled Persons’ Federation and executive chairman of Beijing Winter Olympic organizing committee attended. More than 1,500 people from all walks of life, including IOC officials, diplomatic envoys in China, athletes and volunteer representatives, attended the event.

Chen Jining said in his speech that Beijing, as a “city of double Olympics”, fully implemented the Olympic concept of green, sharing, openness and integrity, and carried out various preparations with high standards and high quality, positive results have been achieved. The construction of venues and infrastructure has been accelerated, the organization of events and the service of events have been solidly promoted, the market development momentum has been good, the publicity and promotion have continued to heat up, and the popularization of ice and snow sports has been accelerated, resulting in the active participation of the masses in ice and snow sports, support the vivid situation of organizing the Winter Olympics. The arrival of the 1000-day countdown to the Beijing Winter Olympics marks a new stage in the preparation for the Winter Olympics.

Yu Zaiqing, vice chairman of the International Olympic Committee and vice chairman of the Beijing Winter Olympic organizing committee, delivered a speech saying that in 2019, the preparatory work for the Winter Olympic Games entered a critical stage. I hope everyone can take an active part in exploring the charm of winter sports and contribute their own strength to Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

During the activity, Zhang Jiandong, vice mayor of Beijing and executive vice chairman of Beijing Winter Olympic organizing committee, released the “Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games and Winter Paralympic Games Voluntary Service Action Plan”. Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympic Games have set up five volunteer service projects, including early volunteers, test volunteers, Games-time volunteers volunteers, urban volunteers, and volunteer service Heritage transformation. Among them, the Games-time volunteers project will be officially launched in December this year.

At 8 o’clock that night, as the audience shouted 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Cai Qi, Zheng Zhongwen, Chen Jining, Xu Qin, Zhang Haidi, the first vice president of the International Olympic Committee, samaranch, the chairman of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Coordination Committee, and the International Olympic Committee, Literary and Art Circles, athletes, student representatives, together pushed the hand pull rod to light up the countdown device for the Winter Olympics, Ling Long Pagoda the number of 1000 days on the big screen.