The Chinese men's national team, which is training in Guangzhou, will fly from Guangzhou to Auckland, New Zealand, to prepare for two international A warm-up matches with the New Zealand men's football team on March 23 and 26. Compared with Chen Jiayuan's tenure, this time the national football team gave up direct charter flights, and the international football team did not take business class, and the logistics support service was reduced from world-class to the Asian ordinary level, and it will be unknown whether it will affect the performance of the international footballers.
This is the second time that the national football team has played the international A warm-up match after 3 years, before staying in China to play with the Chinese Super League and the Chinese League One club, never lost, of course, it is also related to the opponent to give some face, if the club wins the national team, it will be much more embarrassing.
In order to prepare for the Asian Cup and the World Preliminary Tournament, the Chinese Football Association agreed with the New Zealand Football Association in advance last year to arrange two warm-up matches between the two national teams, the place is New Zealand, and the national football team will play away, so it is necessary to take a plane flight.
The national football team previously participated in the last Asian Cup and the World Preliminary Round, all of which were arranged by the Football Association to arrive at the competition point by charter flights, while avoiding the international footballers' hard work, not affecting the performance of the game, and taking the initiative to let them take the more expensive and more comfortable business class, all of which were the world-class logistics support services given to the national football team during Chen Jiayuan's tenure as president of the Football Association.
Now after Chen Jiayuan was investigated, the Football Association chose to keep a low profile, this time arranging the national football team to fly to New Zealand, a total of 11 hours, or give up the charter flight and choose an ordinary civil aviation passenger plane, while the vast majority of players are sitting in economy class. The size of the trip is reported to be around 45, including more than 20 internationals, with the rest including coaching staff and support staff.
Since the U24 Asian Games team also has to go to New Zealand to play warm-up matches, the Football Association also has to arrange the travel of this men's national team, from Dubai, United Arab Emirates to Auckland, New Zealand, the number of people is similar, a week back and forth costs at least several million yuan, but compared to last year to Dubai, United Arab Emirates to play the top 40 and round of 12, it is still much less.
The last time the Chinese men's national team traveled so far to participate in warm-up matches, it was to Brazil in 2012, and now it is 11 years before going to New Zealand, it is reported that the leadership of the football association made a plan in advance, but playing two warm-up matches with the New Zealand men's football team, did not get any appearance fees, even if the world ranking is 25 places higher than the opponent.
In recent years, the Japanese men's football team and the South Korean men's football team often meet with South American teams higher than themselves to play international A warm-up matches in Asia, and the two football associations need to jointly pay the appearance fee of the South American team.