Taixi! Sports Arena: Thai team ended the European fever and went to Finland by boat, and then took two flights home.

Live broadcast bar, October 16, according to Wang Xiaorui, a reporter from Sports Weekly, Thailand, as the first opponent of China’s top 36 FIFA World Cup qualification, has been widely questioned about the travel arrangements to and from Europe for warm-up matches this month. On the 14th, the Thai team rushed from Georgia to Estonia, spending a total of 11 hours. After the warm-up match with Estonia on the 17th, the Thai team’s trip to Thailand will continue. They need to take a ferry to Finland first, and then take two flights to go home.

After a disastrous defeat to Georgia on October 12-8, they left Georgia at 2 a.m. a day later. However, their next stop was not Estonia, but Riga International Airport in Latvia. The whole flight cost about 5 hours. After arriving in Latvia, the team took another 5-hour bus to Estonia, and the total trip took about 10 hours. In the second trip, there was also a scene of crying and laughing: because no snacks were prepared for the team, the Thai bus had to stop for a while along the way, and the team members immediately got off the bus and found a hamburger shop to satisfy their hunger.

It is reported that the Thai team did not consider flying directly from Georgia to Estonia. However, after inspection, there is no direct flight between the two countries, and the Thai team can also choose to change planes, but the total trip will take 3-4 hours more.

After arriving in Estonia on the 14th, the head coach of the Thai team, polka, simply canceled the training plan and arranged the players to go to the hotel swimming pool to recover their physical fitness. However, when the first training of a new station was started on the 15th, the Thai team faced a new problem: the outdoor temperature was only 8 degrees. However, the Thai team’s trip to Thailand is not over yet. When they return to China on the 18th, they also need to take a boat to Finland first, then fly from Helsinki to Doha, and transfer to Thailand in Doha. The Thai team also considered flying three consecutive flights from “Estonia-Latvia-Qatar-Thailand”, but after evaluation, it took several hours for each transfer process. More importantly, since the three flights belong to different airlines or alliances, the team must check the luggage again every time they transfer to the plane.

The Thai team insisted that taking the ferry first and then taking two flights home would not only cost the least time, but also save the most physical strength. However, as far as the current situation is concerned, before this trip, the Thai team did not inform the national players of all the details of the journey, and the media were also kept in the dark. Therefore, after the defeat of the Georgian team, the Thai media criticized the Thai team and believed that the preparation for the national team’s training and the competition abroad were like a joke, and the relevant senior officials should stand up and take responsibility.

(Derison)