Nam Dinh Football Team when "Everyone leaves us"
(Baonghean.vn) - "We haven't had any salaries for the past 4 months. We have had to ask our parents for food money, and some of us depend on our wives. The team is like in a clinical death," a Nam Dinh player lamented.
Just as the experts predicted before the relegation play-off match between XSKT.Can Tho and Nam Dinh at the end of last season: “With this style of football, the losing team will “die”, and the winning team will “die”, just watch.” The subsequent developments of the Thien Truong Stadium team were exactly the same.
"Everyone leaves us"
2018 has ended but the promise of disbursing 20 billion VND from last year has not yet been paid, so everything is over. For the past 4 months, the coaching staff and players have been struggling to survive on their families, not even having enough to eat, let alone practice.
Currently, Nam Dinh is in a situation where "the West is gone, we are gradually leaving". Although they are very eager to contribute, due to lack of financial support, the Southern team had to sadly say goodbye to many key players such as Dinh Viet Tu (to Quang Nam) or Le Sy Minh (to Than Quang Ninh).
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| The joy of the audience in Thanh Nam was short-lived. Photo: Internet |
Previously, the team's pillars such as Van Thuan and Huu Quy had also found new destinations. Those familiar with the team believe that after parting ways with Sy Minh, the player who has been with the team for 11 years is expected not to be the last name to leave the team from Thanh Nam before the start of V.League 2019.
“Sy Minh is a free agent but no one on the club’s board has called him, no one has mentioned him, no one has tried to keep him. So what should Sy Minh do when the transfer market is gradually closing and the clubs are focusing on preparing for the new season?”, Do Manh Cuong, one of the loyal Nam Dinh fans, lamented. Sy Minh’s situation is also the situation of many players in Thanh Nam at the moment.
Tired of waiting
The neighboring Thanh Hoa players are also owed 4 months of salary but it is simply a matter of procedure. When he learned about the matter, the Vice Chairman of the Thanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee - Mr. Pham Dang Quyen signed an urgent dispatch to the relevant departments and agencies to quickly complete the process of receiving the team back from the INTERPRO Football Development Joint Stock Company to pay the players' salaries. Nam Dinh is different.
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| Coach Van Sy's worries about "bread and butter". Photo: Internet |
Even Nam Ha Pharmaceutical Company wants to sponsor 20 billion VND/year for 3 years. A "quite modest" contract but in the context of "distortion, better than nothing" so the whole coaching board, players and fans of Nam Dinh are looking forward to it. However, according to our research, the provincial leaders and the sponsor have not yet found a common voice on the interests of the parties involved.
Up to now, there are 6 foreign players coming to practice with the team. According to the schedule, Nam Dinh will participate in the Viettel Open 2019 in Hanoi, but due to financial problems, the team had to give up. "Seeing the team in this situation is really frustrating, the future is uncertain. Yesterday, coach Sy said that we cannot practice like this forever. If there is no action in 1 or 2 days, we should disband, it is better to go our separate ways," a Nam Dinh player choked up.
It is true that if they continue to eat like this, Nam Dinh should disband early. Without funds for training and buying foreign players, key players leaving one after another, the spirit of the coaching staff and players is discouraged, sooner or later Nam Dinh will have difficulty staying in V-League 2019.
