Vietnamese player: 'Low bonus, have to ask mom for money this Tet'

Many V.League teams do not have Tet bonuses, others receive 3-5 million VND. This is the most difficult Tet for Vietnamese players in many years.

Northern and Central players lament

A few years ago, when the bosses were still spending money without hesitation, each player received tens, even hundreds of millions of dong in Tet bonuses. However, now that the economy is in trouble and football is going down, the Vietnamese football world is also having to endure the situation of receiving small Tet bonuses. Many teams even have no bonuses. V.Ninh Binh Club had their last practice today, tomorrow the whole team will have Tet holiday. The players returned home without receiving a single dong in bonuses even though they had just defeated the reigning V.League champions Hanoi T&T right at Hang Day Stadium (3-1).

Van Quyen and his teammates did not receive a Tet bonus.

Fortunately, Mr. Truong decided to pay the remaining 2 months' salary so that Coach Van Sy's students could have money to spend during Tet. Van Quyen and his teammates did not receive a Tet bonus. Worse than V.Ninh Binh is Than Quang Ninh. The leaders of the coal mining team not only did not give a Tet bonus but also did not mention anything about the bonus for the win against V.Ninh Binh in the second round and the goalless draw right on the field of the rich B.Binh Duong. "Hearing about the Tet bonus makes me sad. At Than Quang Ninh, we are fighting with faith. We can only encourage each other that after Tet, we will have bonus money for the matches in V.League", a pillar of the coal mining team sadly shared. In recent days, there has been a lot of information about Thanh Hoa players winning big.

Cong Vinh and his teammates received a Tet bonus of 1 month's salary.

Accordingly, the players received a one-month salary bonus and an additional 1.2 billion VND bonus for the victory over SHB Da Nang and SLNA to rise to the top of the rankings. However, the actual bonus of the Thanh team is not that big. "I don't understand where that rumor came from. In the past few days, players from other teams called to congratulate me on my big win, which surprised me. In reality, the Tet bonus in Thanh Hoa is only 3 million VND per player. The bonus for the V.League arena is also not as big as the rumor, for the victory over SHB Da Nang, we only received 300 million VND, the bonus for the victory over SLNA has not been announced yet", a student of coach Mai Duc Chung shared. Cong Vinh and his teammates received a one-month salary bonus. The best bonus is SLNA, a team known as a poor family. The leaders of the Nghe An club have decided that the Tet bonus for each player is one month's salary. In addition, coach Huu Thang and his team also have 400 million VND in bonuses from the victories against Than Quang Ninh and QNK Quang Nam to share.

Southern player "This Tet, I have to ask my mother for money"

Among the southern teams, K.Kien Giang players are the ones who have had the biggest difficulties. Throughout 2013, they were owed salaries, bonuses and transfer fees by the club. Many players had to mortgage their motorbikes and phones to have money to live. Most of them found new clubs when playing for Dong Nai, An Giang... But the money in the past few months was only enough to pay off old debts. Some Kien Giang players who are playing for HV.An Giang are upset because this rookie team is slow to disburse money, and there are no bonuses from matches because HV.An Giang has been "invincible" since the beginning of the season. Therefore, they wait for Tet bonuses from the club to have money to cover expenses, but these bonuses from the club are very low: ranging from 3 to 5 million. Kien Giang and Dong Nai players are the "most miserable" in V.League. Dong Nai players are even more miserable because their Tet bonus is only 2 million VND. This team only won 3 draws in V.League, so the players have no other source of income.

A former Kien Giang player who had to pawn his car to get money for living expenses said: "The bonus is small, this Tet I will probably have to ask my mother for money, because the money I receive is only enough to pay off the debt." The family of naturalized player Nguyen Hoang T.Minh is in the most difficult situation. His wife, Tuyet Loan, just gave birth but has no additional source of income as K.Kien Giang still owes the couple more than 1 billion VND. Tuyet Loan had to go to Kien Giang from the time she was pregnant until the time she gave birth. She carried her baby to the company door to collect the debt but it was still not resolved. Player Nguyen Hoang T.Minh is unemployed, so the family has a new member to celebrate Tet but cannot be happy. B.Binh Duong, the team known as the rich guy when it just bought a series of stars such as Mai Tien Thanh, Trong Hoang, Au Van Hoan... also has a very low Tet bonus. Each player receives 5 million VND. In particular, the team from the land of Thu has only got 1 point after 2 matches, so there is no bonus in the V.League, although there is a huge bonus for each win. DT.LA is the team that disburses the Tet bonus the earliest, and is also the team with the highest bonus, but the number only fluctuates from 7-10 million VND.

According to Zing