Football competition
Lin Weiguo, director of the BOCOG Soccer Project Team introduced the situation for the football competition.
Lin Weiguo, director of the BOCOG Soccer Project Team
He said for Beijing, in terms of competition venues, all of them are in preparation and they have basically completed all the tasks.
According to Lin, on April 19th and 21st they will have some events. On the 19th they will have the games for Women -- America and Africa. Brazil and Ghana teams will be competing with each other at the Workers' Stadium of Beijing. Yesterday Brazil and Ghana teams arrived safely, and have already held the first training.
Lin said they have also basically determined the agenda. "Before the opening ceremony we won't allow any football competition to be held in Beijing. There will be more competitions for football outside Beijing and they are evenly distributed. Up until now 10 games were allocated to in Beijing and for other cities, 12 for each," said Lin.
(china.org.cn April 16, 2008)