China Hong Kong Football Federation announced that Hong Kong's withdrawal of Hong Kong withdraw from the e-sports versionThe reason for the Asian Cup is because the team name in the game game is not as "China".
Comprehensive Hong Kong Zhongtong News Agency, Hong Kong 01 and Sing Tao Daily reported that the E -sports Asian Cup (AFC Easian Cup 2023) was held on Catal on Thursday (February 1).The Hong Kong Football Association cooperated with the E -sports Federation and sent two e -sports players and a coach to Qatar to participate.
According to the original scheduled schedule, the Hong Kong team will be able to live on the UAE on Thursday party, and the event is broadcast live on the organizer YouTube Channel.
Although in the official propaganda, the organizers are called "Hong Kong, China", but the Hong Kong Football Team found on January 29th that the Hong Kong team named "Hong Kong" in the final game screen was, Not "hong Kong, china".
In response to this issue, the Hong Kong Football Team said that it still could not be properly resolved after negotiating with the organizer for several days. Therefore, according to the guidelines and suggestions of the Hong Kong Association and the Olympic Committee, the Asian Football Association was notified to withdraw from the competition that night.It is reported that the contestants and coaches returned to Hong Kong from Qatar that night and will arrive at Hong Kong at 3 pm on Friday.
People familiar with the matter revealed that the players did not know that they would retire three hours before the start.For this event, the two players and coaches spent three months to practice. They practiced for a few hours a day. I hope that the Hong Kong team will be promoted to the Asian Cup finals in reality to achieve a good performance in the Asian Cup in the E -sports.
FA President Bei Junqi said on Friday (February 2) on the radio program that it is not appropriate to write only "Hong Kong" by the competition team.It is also to avoid unnecessary disputes.
FA Chairman Huo Qishan attended the Women's Provincial Hong Kong Cup on Thursday night that the FA was invited to attend the E -sports version of the Asian Cup and provided information as required.Acting "formal approach".
E -sports version of the Asian Cup "AFC EASIAN CUP 2023" through the Konami game EFOOTBALL of the PS5 host in the form of doubles, the group arrangement is the same as the real Asian Cup.The Hong Kong team was incorporated into Group C. The same group opponents were Iran and the UAE. Palestine had retired earlier.