With the experience of successfully hosting the Qatar World Cup, even if it takes over the Asian Cup temporarily, Qatar is still successful, with rich experience in hosting the tournament, and the venues and reception capacity are obvious to all, which is very good. Now the Asian Cup has set a new record, with a record number of spectators.
This is in the Asian Cup knockout round 1/8 finals, the host Qatar team defeated Palestine 2-1, advanced to the quarterfinals, after the game, the total number of spectators of the Asian Cup reached a new high, according to statistics, the Asian Cup so far, the total number of spectators on the scene exceeded 1 million, reaching 1,068,587 people. This figure has already broken the Asian Cup record. You must know that the highlight of this tournament is still to come, so this record will continue to be broken.
Somewhat embarrassing is the national football team, in the first game with Tajikistan 0-0, the attendance of 4,001 people, the lowest attendance rate of this Asian Cup. There is also a reason for the lowest attendance in this game, first of all, in the first 70 minutes of this game, the national football team was almost completely suppressed by the opponent, and there were not many opportunities to fight back, and the scene was very bad. Secondly, everyone's expectations for the national football team are already very low.
You must know that in the past, even the warm-up matches of the national football team were the focus, whether at home or abroad, and even in the early days of Jankovic's away game in New Zealand, there were many fans cheering on the spot. Now the national football team has a poor record, bad play, ugly scenes, and its popularity and reputation are plummeting.
This is also the biggest crisis of the current national football team, in the past, it was a poor record, but the market response was strong, there were many fans present, and the Internet was extremely hot, but now even if the national football team participates in major events such as the Asian Cup, the attention is no longer as high as in the past. The results and performance of the national football team continue to refresh the lower limit, and the gap between them and the expectations of the fans is too big, which can be said to break everyone's hearts.
This is also understandable why the attendance rate of the national football team has become so poor, and then facing the Singapore team in the World Preliminary Tournament in March, hoping that the national football team will rebound.