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Huge luck broke out for the Chinese national team, which has been sluggish with the worst trend in history.
China's Sohu Dotcom reported on the 18th (Korea time) 'The Chinese national team surprised fans by announcing a huge amount of new sponsorship contracts'
Sohu said 'China's national team has good news after the East Asian Cup. According to the news, the Chinese national team has signed a large sponsorship contract. BYD has provided a five-year total of $75 million (about 100 billion won) to the Chinese national team. The Chinese national team is in a recession, and it is difficult to invest a lot of money in such a situation. It is also known that the company is willing to support Chinese players' overseas expansion. 'Chinese prospects perform well overseas and can secure additional funds.'"
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Then 'Chinese prospect Bang Zhao Lei had difficulty maintaining his study in Spain due to his family's difficulties. He planned to join Dalian for a training session. However, now that we have sponsors for overseas expansion, we can continue to play soccer overseas,' he explained.
China finished the East Asian Football Federation (EAFF) E-1 Championship (East Asian Cup) in third place in 2025. Third place was a well-foreseen result. With China's current strength, it was almost impossible to face South Korea and Japan, the Asian leaders. There were some expectations, but China faced reality by losing to South Korea and Japan. The bigger problem was performance. China disappointed its fans by struggling with Hong Kong as well as its disastrous performance against South Korea and Japan.
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The disastrous situation was evident in the records. China's Beijing News reported that Zhang Winning's score was the first goal of the Chinese national team's East Asian Cup and the first field goal in 2025. After the East Asian Cup, the Chinese national team has effectively ended this year's major competitions,' he said. This is the fact that China has one field goal in seven games this year. You can see how sluggish the performance continues.
However, even in this situation, a Chinese company has signed a large-scale sponsorship with the national team, allowing the Chinese Football Association to run the national team without worrying about money for a while. As it plans to help Chinese prospects advance overseas along with an investment worth as much as 100 billion won, attention is being paid to whether this investment will be a turning point that will change the Chinese national team to improve even a little.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
