Beijing time on April 14, from the well-known Argentine journalist Gustavo Yarroch news, the Argentine Football Association has received an invitation from China to play friendly matches, during the national team match in June, the Argentine men's football team will come to China to play a friendly match with Central American powerhouse Costa Rica.
In addition to China and Costa Rica, Argentina will also play another opponent from South America, possibly Ecuador or Colombia, during the national team break.
Considering that Argentina is a World Cup winner and is the top team ranked No. 1 in FIFA, their appearance fee is naturally not low. It is reported that the Chinese event organizers have made quite generous offers, reaching the level of one million US dollars. Offering a million-dollar appearance fee to invite world champions to China, but not playing with their own national team, this move has also caused many Chinese netizens to question.
According to previous media revelations, the reason why the Chinese men's football team gave up the opportunity to play with Argentina is because they know that the gap in strength is too large, and the most realistic goal of the Chinese men's football team at this stage is to improve points by winning warm-up games to avoid further decline in their world rankings, so Argentina, which will definitely not be able to play at home, seems to be expected.
On the previous national team matchday, the Chinese men's team twice played against the New Zealand men's team, which ranked below itself. In the first match, the Chinese men's football team was forced to draw 0-0 by the opponent with one more player. In the second meeting, the Chinese men's football team -=2 defeated the opponent. At present, the Chinese men's football team has slipped to 81st in the world ranking, ranking 11th in Asia. The Argentine men's team, which won the World Cup, has replaced Brazil and France to return to the world No. 1 throne.