In a recent report, South Korea's Chosun Ilbo cleverly revealed the stark contrast in player prices between China and South Korea, noting that
China national soccer team
The market value of all the players is even less than that of South Korean star Son.
The outlet also shared a
national soccer team
A group photo of the players and sharply commented, "Even if the players in this photo are sold three times, they can't make up for Sun's price."
Unlike Asian soccer powerhouses like South Korea and Japan, the
national soccer team
had attempted to boost the team by bringing in naturalized players in a bid to
World Cup
The tournament made a breakthrough. However, this strategy failed to work after suffering a blow from Vietnam and were eventually knocked out of the tournament. Meanwhile, they failed to produce any shining star in the European soccer landscape.
An analysis of data from Chosun Ilbo showed that "the overall market value of the Chinese team is only 23.1 million euros, not yet as much as Asian soccer superstar Son, who is worth 80 million euros, more than three times as much."
