Since losing to Vietnam in the World Preliminary Round, the Chinese national football team has encountered huge criticism, and the entire men's football team has been implicated. Nowadays, the Chinese Football Association is brewing a third salary cut for the men's football team in three years, and according to domestic media disclosures, in fact, there is no need for the Football Association to force a salary cut, and the current treatment of male footballers is actually much worse than before.
It is understood that because many Chinese Super League clubs cannot make ends meet, although the annual salary of the men's football star players is at least millions on the surface, the salary that can actually be obtained is very small. A big-name star who used to be the main player in the national football team received a salary of only more than 50,000 yuan per month last year, and finally earned about 700,000 yuan per year.
Such a salary package is even inferior to that of women's football. According to the current treatment standards, the annual income of Wang Shuang, the core player of Chinese women's football, is about 1 million yuan, which greatly exceeds the "big star" of the men's football team with an annual income of less than 700,000 yuan. Other players who play the main role in women's football also have annual incomes of hundreds of thousands of yuan. In contrast, the star who played the main player in the national football team has begun to align with the standard of treatment for women's football.
In fact, it is not surprising that such a phenomenon occurs, and even 700,000 yuan can be obtained a year, which is thankful for some national football players who have suffered from unpaid wages. For example, the male footballers who played in Qingdao, Chongqing, Hebei and other Chinese Super League teams were almost all owed salaries last season, and even supporting their families became a problem.
In the Wuhan team wage arrears scandal that was exposed some time ago, even the national football team captain Arthur Junmin, as well as Huang Zichang, Zhao Hongluo and other famous players, can be seen how the overall treatment of male football players has reached. If the development continues, the future of men's and women's football to fully achieve "equal pay for equal work" will no longer be just a joke. According to the current environment, if you still want to have male footballers expect to "make a lot of money", you can only practice hard, strive to go abroad as soon as possible, go to Europe to play, and maybe there is a glimmer of opportunity.
In fact, the emergence of this phenomenon can only be said to be a "retribution" for the deterioration of the chinese men's football team in recent years. In the past decade, the men's football team has seized too much money, and many so-called "big stars" have become multi-millionaires and have long been questioned. Now, the national football team has lost to Vietnam without controversy, which has completely triggered the outside world's doubts about the high salary and low ability of the men's football team. In the final analysis, to save this environment depends on the men's football team itself, if even they do not fight for themselves, it can only be reduced to what they are today.