According to the news from the famous Argentine journalist Gustavo Yarroch, on April 14, Beijing time, the Chinese side has sent an invitation to the Argentine Football Federation (FAR) to invite its men's soccer team to travel to China during the national team's match days in June and to play a friendly match against the Central American giants Costa Rica.
In addition to the match against Costa Rica in China, Argentina will also play another opponent from South America on this National Team Match Day, which could be Ecuador or Colombia.
Considering that Argentina is the World Cup champion and the top-ranked team in FIFA, their appearance fee is naturally not low. It is reported that the Chinese tournament organizers offer quite lucrative offers, reaching the level of millions of dollars. The world champions were invited to come to China with an appearance fee of one million dollars, but they did not compete with the national team. The move has also raised questions from many Chinese netizens.
According to previous media reports, the Chinese men's soccer team gave up their chances against Argentina because they knew that their strength gap was too big. In addition, the most practical goal for the Chinese men's soccer team at this stage is to win warm-up matches to improve their points and avoid a further drop in the world rankings. Therefore, it seems to be expected that Argentina will not be able to avoid the war at home.
On previous national team match days, the Chinese men's soccer team played twice against the New Zealand men's soccer team, which was ranked below them. In the first match, the Chinese men's soccer team was held to a 0-0 draw with an extra man. The Chinese men's soccer team played the second time and defeated their opponents 1-2. The Chinese men's soccer team has now dropped to 81st in the world rankings and 11th in Asia. Argentina's men's soccer team won the World Cup, replacing Brazil and France to return to the top of the world.
