SLNA: We will know what is corn and what is potato.
(Baonghean.vn) - Preparing to return after a break due to the Covid-19 pandemic, SLNA's recent two friendly matches with neighbor Hong Linh Ha Tinh showed that things for this team, which were already difficult, will become even more difficult.
The number of previous injuries not only did not recover in time, but also increased with the long list of Jelic, Ba Sang, Van Lam and Sy Nam... In the second leg of the friendly match,SLNAOnly foreign player Bruno played the full 90 minutes, while Peter was absent and Jelic only played for a few minutes before leaving the field. The friendly match result, win or lose, may not be important, but seeing how the Vinh team was stuck and disjointed against a not-so-strong opponent, many people thought of an unpleasant outcome in the upcoming difficult "toumalet" stage of the coach and his team.Ngo Quang Truong.
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| SLNA's attack line caused great disappointment at V.League 2020. Photo courtesy of Duc Anh |
It is known that the difficulties in terms of personnel, especially foreign players, of the above-mentioned team are not the things that make the coaching staff and fans most worried and concerned. Everyone knows that SLNA is always the "poorest" team in V. League 1 due to low socialized resources and the lack of a "boss" who really invests heavily in the team. The scene of eating and borrowing, anxiously looking for sponsors before each season, and the field standards not meeting requirements... has therefore become a daily occurrence and a "specialty" here.
And for many years now, even though people have been talking and calling for the “pride of Nghe An”, even though the tradition room has been filled with Gold Cups, Silver Cups… the fact that the first team is playing more and more poorly, not yet relegated but also participating in the fight against relegation, is becoming more and more “promising” to become a place to gain points from rich and powerful opponents, including the two rising neighboring teams Thanh Hoa and HLHT.
Socialized football is the time for the bosses and owners to intervene, it is the inevitable path, those who follow behind, cling to subsidies, repeat the "prolonged excellent student" syndrome, it would be strange if they were not tired and sad.
SLNA has not been relegated, not to the point of having to play in the play-offs, but let's see, where is the time when any team coming to Vinh Stadium had the mentality of "losing" before the referee blew the whistle, where is the "Vinh fire pot" that many places dream of? It is not by chance that the forces of Vietnamese football such as The Cong, Sai Gon Port, Dong Thap... are in the past and will never return, and who can be sure that SLNA will not follow in that "rut" if they do not know how to find a way to maintain the team when everything is still possible?
For a long time, someone has complained that the province does not care about the football team as before? Whether that is true or not is not debatable because the socio-economic conditions and circumstances of the locality, the whole country, and even the world are completely different from before and inevitably, there is no/nowhere else where the standing committee meetings, council meetings, etc. are still enthusiastically discussing football!
Returning football to society to operate and take care of itself is a path that has been worn out and the grass has died. The question is why have many places done well, done it for a long time, lived healthily and happily, but for many years, SLNA has been repeating the refrain of "low salary, poor bonus", "brain drain", and this turbulent football season seems to be even more "lacking in front, falling behind"?
Why haven't the province and the football team found/cannot find a sponsor capable of helping SLNA stabilize the eternal "food, clothing and money" issue before, during and after each football season? Is there any deeper issue inside, behind and ahead that makes everything "go astray"? Let's look at how our neighbor Thanh Hoa handles the sponsorship issue to see what possible lessons we can learn? Let's ask ourselves why we have to follow Binh Dinh football team to return to the old path when we already have everything in our hands?
It is understandable and not new that the “heroes” of the subsidy period did not have time to change and became depressed in the socialization period! The new thing is that responsible people, dedicated people, know clearly and thoroughly but let things go as if nothing happened, as if it were someone else’s responsibility, “oh my god”!
Or just let it be, just wait until what must come, will come?
That is, when the only V. League team that has not been relegated, SLNA this season… is relegated (!), then we will know clearly what is corn, what is potatoes, which fields to plow again, which to abandon…?