Millions of long-suffering soccer fans in China took to social media to berate their national team after a 3-1 defeat to underdog Vietnam in the FIFA World Cup qualifiers ended any hope they had of reaching the 2022 World Cup. The quip “National team, give us a refund” received hundreds of millions of views after the loss in Hanoi to Vietnam, which had never beaten China, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, a major holiday in both countries. President Xi Jinping has said China should host and even win the World Cup one day, but the team rarely advances out of Asian qualifiers.
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