2024 men's hockey asian champions cup opens in inner mongolia
2024-09-07
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china news service, hulunbuir, september 7 (reporter zhang wei) the 2024 men's hockey asian champions cup (abbreviated as "afc champions league") opened on the evening of the 7th in molidawa daur autonomous banner, hulunbuir city, inner mongolia autonomous region. during the 10-day competition, 6 asian hockey teams from china, india, japan, south korea, malaysia and pakistan will play 20 games.
on september 6, before the start of the 2024 men's hockey asian champions cup, the participating teams conducted pre-match warm-up training. photo by jiang xiwu
the theme of the opening ceremony of this year's "asian champions league" was "wishes from molidawa". that night, the dazzling digital stage and wonderful singing and dancing performances brought the most sincere blessings of the "hometown of chinese hockey" to the audience.
hockey is a traditional sports activity of the daur people with a long history. in 1976, china's first men's hockey team was established in the molidawa daur autonomous banner. over the past half century, the banner has trained and sent more than 500 coaches and athletes to the chinese national team and provincial teams across the country. in 1989, the area was named "china's hometown of hockey", and since then there has been a story of "one autonomous banner, half of the national team".
"we are able to hold asia's highest level hockey events here, which is an important boost to the development of hockey in asia." zahid ali, tournament director of the asian hockey confederation, said at the opening ceremony that as an international sport, hockey conveys not only the passion of competition, but also the message of friendship and peace.
according to the schedule, this "afc champions league" will have two semi-finals after a single round-robin group stage match, which will be played between the first and fourth place in the group stage and the second and third place respectively. the winners will compete for the championship and runner-up, and the losers will play for the bronze medal. the final ranking match will be played between the fifth and sixth place in the group.
it is reported that the chinese team will make its debut at 18:00 beijing time on september 8th and face its first opponent, the indian team. (end)
