[잉글랜드 FA컵] Marine FC, 8th Division Team against Tottenham, is applauded

[서울=뉴스핌] Reporter Kim Yong-seok = Marine FC, England’s non-league 8th team, is suddenly attracting great attention from around the world.

Tottenham, a team of Premier League (EPL) Son Heung-min, will play the English FA Cup Round of 64 (3rd round) at Marine Travel Arena located in Crosby, Merseyside, on the 11th at 2am (Korean time).

Son Heung-min and Tottenham players are about to face off against Marine FC in the FA Cup. [사진= 로이터 뉴스핌]

Home of the 8th team Marine FC. [사진= 마린 FC SNS]

Already, many of them have become fans of Marine FC. Current Everton director Ancelotti and’Liverpool broadcaster’ Jamie Carlogger have already declared their official support. The eighth team, who doesn’t even know the name well. The reason is the desperate situation of Marine FC.

Marine, known only for his confrontation with Tottenham, received great attention from the next few weeks. However, the news that’After the game against Tottenham, players must be fired due to financial difficulties’ made many people sad.

In fact, Marine FC’s operating cost per week is around £100,000 (about 140 million won). Broadcasting fees with Tottenham are only around £75,000 (about 110 million won), which is a large amount for Marines, and £100-300 per week (140,000 to 440,000 won) for players.

It is a well-known story that Jamie Bard, the Premier League striker’Leicester City striker’, did a side job at the construction site because he couldn’t live on a weekly basis during the non-league days.

In a situation where the stadium’s spectator income is ‘0’ due to Corona 19, the marine owner has announced a’temporary layoff’ for the players. I haven’t played a single game since December. Each player has a separate job, so I couldn’t practice properly. This is because the non-league games were almost canceled this year, so the existence of the club itself is dangerous.

Knowing this, nearby Liverpool, Everton, and others were allowed to use the practice for free, and gifts containing the hearts of local fans were delivered. Marine is a regional club located in a coastal city in northwest England, near Liverpool.

In particular, to prevent the team from being disbanded, the idea of’virtual ticket sales’ came up.
Fans cannot watch directly because of the Corona 19 situation, but they bought a’virtual ticket’ to support Marine. Fortunately, Marine’s difficult circumstances were well known and sold 10,000 copies. So far, the most sold tickets at Marine FC’s home stadium were around 6,000 seats. That’s a shame that expresses her compassion for marines well.

Marine earned over a week’s operating expenses of £125,000 (about 180 million won) with’virtual tickets’. He made a huge sum of £200,000 (approximately 296 million won) by adding 75,000 pounds to the Tottenham match broadcasting rights. It has passed the crisis of’dismissing the club’.

Marine, who delivered the news of’selling 10000 tickets’, said through the official SNS, “Thank you so much. There is no more touching moment than soccer brings us together. As a sign of gratitude to the fans for selling tickets that we have never seen before. I promised to hang the names of those who bought tickets on the wall of the playground.”

Marine FC players who’do not know when to play again’ did their best to practice.
Fortunately for the FA Cup, the cost of the corona test was borne by the British Football Association. None of the positive tests came out. That’s the result of checking’Health’ in order to compete against Tottenham, which may be a’chance of a lifetime’.

When the Premiery team arrives, the best service should be provided in the player changing room, the coach waiting room, and the coach’s meal, but it is difficult for Marines. Accordingly, the area used as a bar was decorated as a Tottenham changing room.

The UK can participate in the FA Cup regardless of their league, even non-league teams. The FA Cup is not biased toward commercialism, but the Premier League teams are not looking after the weaker teams.

Tottenham manager Mourinho said, “Marine players will want to fight Tottenham’s first team. So we will do our best,” said Mourinho Tottenham.

However, it will not be easy to send out leading players such as Son Heung-min and Harry Kane due to those who want’global support’ and another F Cup miracle.

In the FA Cup already held on the 9th, Corley of’Part Time Soccer Club’ and Doncaster Rovers, the third team, delivered a surprising victory over the second team. In addition, Mourinho, who has advanced to the Carabao Cup final, is unlikely to risk injury and send the starters to the start.

Tottenham defender Alderweireld expressed it like this about the’FA Cup David and Goliath fight’.
‘There is a game ahead that will not be celebrated even if you win. It’s pretty burdensome”…

The team name’Marin’, which was created in 1894, is also named after the most famous and oldest bar in the area. In Korea, it is a team like the’Early Football Association’.

Starting as a soccer club for office workers and college students, the team’s stadium seats are 3,890. If the spectators are full as much as possible, there are about 6000 people.

Marine captain Real Cummings said, “Because I’m an Arsenal fan, I really want to beat Tottenham.” Arsenal is famous for his North London buddy with Tottenham.

It is known that local volunteers will help in the progression of the match against Tottenham. This season, Marine FC advanced to the third round of the FA Cup for the second time in history, beating three league teams.

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