However, this situation is currently happening in Vietnam, when the players of Dong A Thanh Hoa Club signed a petition to some units and organizations to complain about not receiving the promised prize money for the 2023 and 2023-2024 seasons. Nearly 20 billion VND is the mentioned amount, along with the salary from May to July this year.
Thanh Hoa Club has just successfully defended its championship title of National Cup, won the 2024 National Super Cup, and considering the championship title of the U19 team or the U21 team that is currently impressing in the U21 National Final, it can be said that Thanh Hoa football is currently in a successful period. However, the paradoxical situation - not only a matter specific to Thanh Hoa but almost the entire Vietnamese football - is that success in the professional aspect is not a foundation for financial attraction.
However, in reality, there is no lack of attraction, but the problem is that the operation of Vietnamese football always causes the amount of investment to be greater than the income. Many football clubs have fallen into this situation before Thanh Hoa. Some teams have to dissolve - and then restart after a few years, some teams are returned to their local authorities, or Thanh Hoa itself withdraws from an important front in the Asian arena next season, although the reason given is the dense schedule, but people understand that the "first" issue is the key one.
Even the team that won the National Cup is "crying" due to financial issues, then Vietnamese football must do what to develop? And when there are still special handouts of up to several dozen billion VND for star players, people do not think that is an image of long-term success but only a kind of "buying a brand" to polish their names, then fade away after a while.
"Sustainability" - a concept that is often mentioned in the country's economic and social development in recent years, but with football, this concept is a luxury. Therefore, the situation where even the "King" is crying is very normal. It only makes the point of many gray tones more in the increasingly bleak overall picture...
