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 bonuses during Tet. However, now that the economy is in trouble and football is going down, the Vietnamese football world is also having to endure a meager Tet bonus. Many teams even have no bonus. V.Ninh Binh Club had their last practice session today, and tomorrow the whole team will have Tet holiday. The players returned home without receiving a single bonus 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 get a Tet bonus.

Fortunately, Mr. Truong decided to pay the remaining 2 months' salary so that Coach Van Sy's students would 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 mine team not only did not give a Tet bonus but also did not mention the bonus for the victory over 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 mine 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 VND1.2 billion 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 Hoa 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 winning big, which surprised me. In reality, each player in Thanh Hoa only gets VND3 million in Tet bonuses. The bonus for the V.League arena is also not as big as the rumor, for the victory over SHB Da Nang we only got VND300 million, 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 for Tet. The best bonus is SLNA, a team that is 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 victory over 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 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 for living expenses. 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 are waiting for the Tet bonus from the club to have money to cover the expenses, but this bonus from the club is 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 got 3 draws in V.League, so the players have no other source of income.

A former Kien Giang player who had to pawn his motorbike 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 my debt". The most difficult situation is the family of naturalized player Nguyen Hoang T.Minh. His wife, Tuyet Loan, has just given 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 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