Soccer
Indian women's soccer team So many covids that I have to withdraw the World Cup qualifier team
Young footballer Dan Bata "host" organizes the Asian Women's Football Championship. to select the Asian representative team to go to the World Championship face bad news When 12 players in the team are infected with Covid-19, plus there are more players injured, they have to withdraw the team even though the game is not finished.
Movement of the 2022 Asian Women's Football Championship in India host the competition Between 20 Jan - 6 Feb 65 to select the Asian representative team to go to the 2023 Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand to host the competition. in which Asia has a quota of 5 + 1 + 2 teams ( 5 teams qualify automatically + 1 team is Australia, the host of the World Cup + 2 teams go to play-offs on other continents)
Recently, there is bad news for the "host" Indian team that has to withdraw the team from the tournament even after just one game. Because the Indian team has Twelve female soccer players have tested positive for COVID-19, and previously had Two female soccer players were injured, leaving 14 female soccer players unable to compete.
According to competition regulations, the AFC requires every team to register 23 players and must submit at least 13 names to play. This made it necessary to immediately remove the team from the competition. Because the injured players can't keep up in time to play as well.
For the Asian Football Championship this time, there are 12 teams participating in the competition, divided into 3 groups of 4 teams each, which will select the teams that qualify for the quarterfinals. Group Champion and Group Runner-up will pass through immediately Then take the best 3rd place teams from 2 teams from 3 groups to the next round for a total of 8 teams.
But in the case of India withdrawing a team which is in Group A, resulting in finding the finalists in Group B, C of the 3rd-ranked team at the end of the first round will not count points, the result of playing against the 4th-ranked team to measure opportunities Qualifying against 3rd-ranked teams in Group A, but games against 4th-placed teams in Group A will be subject to the same FIFA rankings.