You said it was "competitive" based on charter flights...Team only rides when they come
You said it was "competitive" based on charter flights...Team only rides when they come
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The Korea Football Association has decided to fly a chartered plane against Jordan next month, but the players will only board when they return home.
The Korea Football Association said it operates chartered flights if it is judged to be a special case considering performance.
Even this seems to be limited due to the bad financial situation.
I'm reporter Chung Ju-hee.
After the Palestinian match, the national soccer team arrived in Oman via Qatar for 15 hours.
It was compared to Japan, which operated chartered flights for European calls and Bahrain expeditions, and the Japanese media's response that "high-quality Korean players were surprised to use regular planes" was controversial.
The KFA will fly chartered flights in three years since its 2021 away match against Iran in the second consecutive World Cup qualifying round against Jordan and Iraq next month.
However, only supporters, sponsors, and reporters will be on board on the way, and the team will only use it when returning home after the match against Jordan.
The team leaving ahead of the charter flight must get on the "long haul" through Abu Dhabi to Jordan.
The Korea Football Association said, "We have been operating chartered flights in special cases considering performance management strategies." "We decided to operate chartered flights when returning home to prepare for the home game against Iraq because Jordan and Iraq are the strongest in the third qualifying round."
It's a charter flight focusing on the Iraq war, but that doesn't explain why only the team was missing from the charter flight to Jordan.
In the end, it seems to be a financial problem.
It is said that it basically costs 800 million won to 1 billion won to fly a chartered flight, but if the period of stay is extended according to the team's schedule, it will cost more.
For a short schedule of one night and three days, the cheering squad using chartered flights received a participation fee of 1 million won, including 209 people and accommodation.
The Korea Football Association says it runs chartered flights with the participation fee and the association's own budget.
<Kang Yoo-jung / Rep. of the Democratic Party of Korea> "It is a soccer association that is funded by 190 billion won with 30 billion won in subsidies. It is an organization that is obligated to run the national team in its best condition. If it is the administrative power of the Korea Football Association that cannot even operate chartered flights properly, there seems to be quite a problem." 안전놀이터
Next week's National Assembly questioning of the football association is expected to be criticized for the association's poor administration, including the operation of chartered flights.