Many years ago, Vietnamese society witnessed many families suddenly getting rich thanks to compensation money because their houses were in planned areas or protruding from alleys. Having money in hand and defining themselves as stepping into the upper class. However, when culture and internal strength do not go as fast as the money poured into the safe, many words and actions become ostentatious in the eyes of people.
Vietnamese football seems to be witnessing this image, when a club invests heavily at the beginning of the season to buy many stars, hire foreign coaches to lead, build a new image, and set high goals. From a certain perspective, this is completely commendable. Because Vietnamese football lacks strong investors and has teams that dare to spend money and dare to dream big, it is already a positive sign.
The team initially also shocked the rest with an unbeaten streak of 11 matches, firmly at the top of the rankings. Of course, they soon dreamed of a historic championship.
However, when the new apparatus encountered a slight problem (3 consecutive defeats), the simple solution was to fire the coach. They lacked patience with the person who was assessed by experts as bringing the team a fairly watchable style of play. That is a common reaction - because it is the easiest, without having to rack their brains to find a solution.
Choosing a domestic coach to succeed, but it seems that the situation is not brighter. The dream of winning the championship seems to also vanish as quickly as when the decision to "cut off the general".
In fact, not only in Vietnam, world football is not lacking in such examples. Many clubs have been heavily funded, bought massively, but after a few seasons fall into a spiral of crisis. The reason is simple. Money can build training grounds, buy players, but cannot immediately create a tradition or culture of victory.
Ambition, after all, needs patience and sustainability to go along. "Sang" is not necessarily about how much money you spend.
