Explaining by joining 2 teams to focus on investing, developing, and strengthening seems reasonable, but that is not the way professional football operates.
The story of Quang Nam Club is just one of many slices that are tearing apart the reality of reality: Vietnamese football is still struggling to escape the mindset of "capital support", despite wearing a professional shirt for more than 2 decades. When the football club's operating budget depends mainly on local budgets or businesses, it is no surprise that a club must dissolve or merge due to no more money.
What is more worrying is that while world football is increasingly operating according to the market economy model - where clubs are truly sports businesses, living by television rights, ticket sales, advertising, youth training academies, brands... for Vietnamese football, " self-reliance" continues to be a luxury concept.
It cannot be a waste of money forever. It is also impossible to have a few generous buyers or the State budget in the context of difficult economy. I don't know how many times experts have used the phrase "it's time", so now I won't mention it again, but I have to act more decisively about sports economics and football economics.
And it must be emphasized once again that football is also a business. No one wants to see any team removed just because no one pays for football. But if the thinking and operating structure are not changed, the story of many teams in the past, of Quang Nam today, could be the fate of any team tomorrow.
