Purely for honor! The national football team does not have a winning prize against Thailand, and stays in a three-star hotel for 300 yuan a night
The Chinese men's football team is about to start its journey to this World Preliminary Championship, and the first round of the group stage will challenge the Thai team away. Since this is the first shot of the national football team to hit the 2026 World Cup, it is naturally highly anticipated. However, compared with the previous World Preliminary Championships, the Chinese men's football team is very shabby in terms of logistics, according to relevant information, the national football team and Thailand not only have no bonuses, but even the team can only stay in a local 3-star hotel. Compared with the past, the Football Association has obviously significantly reduced the logistical treatment of the national football team.
According to Zhao Zhen, a well-known media person, "The national team is the lowest-key trip since the professionalization this time, and it can be called a five-out trip." There is no leader to supervise the battle, and no one from the leadership of the Football Association is with the team. There was no send-off ceremony, there was no ceremony before the team left, and Song Kai only spoke for five minutes. There is no prize money, and the match with Thailand has been announced early on that there will be no prize money. There are no charter flights and first class, not only are there no charter flights, but all the players travel in economy class. There is no five-star hotel, and the SC Park Hotel where the Chinese team stayed in Bangkok is only a three-star hotel, and it only costs more than 300 yuan to book a room online. ”
From this point of view, the logistical support conditions for the Chinese men's football team to participate in the World Preliminaries can only be described as "miserable", of course, this is the result compared with the past few competitions. From the bonuses and accommodation conditions, you can see how unpopular the national football team is today. You must know that during the last World Preliminary Championship Top 40 Tournament, the Football Association formulated a single-game winning award for the national football team as high as 6 million yuan, but now this number has been reduced to "0", an eye-popping decline. On the other hand, in the past, when the national football team went out to play away games, they often stayed in five-star luxury hotels, or directly chartered a hotel to facilitate the rest of the national players. And this time, the Football Association only booked 300 3-star hotels for the national football team.
In fact, from the attitude of the senior management of the Football Association towards the national football team's trip to Thailand, it is not difficult to predict that the national football team will have the most "shabby" World Preliminaries. Previously, the Football Association had canceled the treatment of the national football team chartering flights to play away, and it was rumored that Song Kai and others would go to Thailand with the national football team, but in the end none of them accompanied the team. From this point, it is not difficult to find that the national football team has fallen from the pursuit of 10,000 people in the past to the situation where no one cares about it now.