Will it get worse? , the love and conflict between Chinese and Thai football, a 57-year-old Chinese beauty competes for the chairmanship of the Thai Football Association

In the top 36 of the 2026 US-Canada-Mexico World Cup Asia, the Chinese team and the Thai team are in the same group. In the first round of the group stage, the national football team reversed the Thai team 2-1 in the away game. After the game, the beautiful leader of the Thai team, Lun Pan, lay on a chair and cried bitterly. Chinese football commentator Dong Lu directly commented: "Wu Lunpan feels the pain of a broken love!"

Wu Lunpan's painful expression as the Thai team lost was captured on camera.

The 57-year-old Wu Lunpan has an elegant and approachable image. In addition to being the manager of the Thai national team and the Olympic team, she is also the chairman of the Thai-Hong Kong Football Club. After the Thai team lost to the Chinese team, Wu Lunpan was decisive. She announced on social media that the "sinner" coach Bolkin was dismissed and Japanese coach Masatada Ishii was appointed as the new coach of the Thai men's football team.

This prominent woman in the world of Thai men's football has announced that she will run for president of the Football Association of Thailand.

In men's professional football, there are generally more male practitioners, fewer women, and even fewer women in management positions. Wu Lunpan, who is already very popular in Thai football circles, wants to play a bigger role - recently, she officially announced her candidacy for the chairman of the Football Association of Thailand and grandly launched a campaign team composed of 18 members. The campaign team is led by Chen Naiwen as a consultant, and the campaign slogan is "Better Together Team Thailand".

Wu Lunpan was born in Bangkok, Thailand on March 21, 1966. His ancestral home is Mei County, Guangdong. He is the fifth generation of Chinese descent in Thailand. She graduated from Chulalongkorn University in Thailand and then went to Boston University in the United States to study for a master's degree. She is a Thai socialite. The Wu family itself is a giant in Thailand's financial and insurance industries. After graduating from college, Wu Lunpan overcame a lot of "boys" through hard work and became the chairman of the family company Taihua Property Insurance.

The new season jersey was released. As the chairman of the Thai professional club Tai Hong Kong, Wu Lunpan directly served as the jersey model.

In 2008, Wu Lunpan accepted the invitation of the then Chairman of the Football Association of Thailand, Varawi, to not only "finance" to sponsor the Thai women's football team, but also to "provide someone" to serve as the manager of the Thai women's football team. This inadvertent crossover made Wu Lunpan famous in Thailand and became the "Queen of Asian Football" in the eyes of the people.

Wu Lunpan, who knows almost nothing about football, has a clear mind. She uses her strengths and avoids weaknesses and uses her experience in the business world to run the Thai women's football team successfully. In the football world, it is absolutely impossible to have no money. As a business owner, Wu Lunpan first brought stable sponsor cash flow to the Thai women's football team, which was financially strapped, in order to build the team's cohesion.

The Thai women's football players are all amateur players. In addition to daily training, they also have to work a second job to satisfy their hobby of playing football. After Wu Lunpan took the helm of the Thai women's football team, she hired women's football players to serve as sales representatives for her insurance company. The company offered high salaries to the players to ensure that they could focus on the game and not be distracted by part-time jobs to make money and supplement their lives. In addition, she also promised that after the Thai women's national football team retires, she will have priority in entering her insurance company and arranging jobs.

Wu Lunpan was previously appointed by the Football Association of Thailand as the manager of the Thai national team and the Olympic team.

Frequent appearances in front of the camera, giving full play to the charm of women, and using the huge influence of football to create a persona that is close to the people are one of Wu Lunpan's secrets to playing football.

By participating in football, Wu Lunpan gained the identity of a football practitioner on top of his original entrepreneur status.

Being hands-on, frequently exposed, and creating a persona that is close to the people is Wu Lunpan's second trick to play football. Regardless of the size of the event, rain or shine, Wu Lunpan never misses every match of the Thai women's football team. As a corporate executive and team manager, she takes the lead in supporting the Thai women's football team. She not only inspires thousands of Thai women to dare to pursue Dreams give people a very down-to-earth sense of intimacy. After Wu Lunpan brought business management concepts to cross-border football, Thailand's women's football team has made rapid progress, and even entered the Women's World Cup in 2015 and 2019, making the whole country excited.

In the 2019 Women's World Cup, the Thai team temporarily trailed Sweden 0-4. Before the end of the game, the captain of the Thai women's football team scored a goal. This was the first goal of Thai football in the World Cup finals. The camera captured a woman hugging her coach and crying with joy - Wu Lunpan's infectious crying expression caused a sensation on the Internet, and a Thai cartoonist even created a comic "Tears of Joy from Thailand". Wu Lunpan's tears made people feel the passion and emotion of Thai football.

In the 2019 Women's World Cup, the Thai team entered the finals for the first time and scored the first goal. Wu Lunpan hugged his coach and cried with emotion.

Thai cartoonists specially created the cartoon "Tears of Joy from Thailand".

Perhaps because she had tasted the benefits of cross-border participation in football, Wu Lunpan continued to deepen her connections in the football circle in 2015. This time she directly served as the chairman of the Thai-Hong Kong Club of Thailand's professional men's football team. After that, Chairman Wu Lunpan can be seen on the pre-match posters of every game of the Thai-Hong Kong team. She even appeared in the new season's jersey release of the Thai-Hong Kong club.

Or maybe Ng Lun Pan’s image as a professional football manager is really perfect. After the Thai team failed to qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the Football Association of Thailand simply appointed Ms. Ng Lun Pan as the manager of the men’s national football team and the Olympic team. The first task of this beautiful football manager after taking office is to qualify from the 2026 World Cup Asian preliminaries group stage. However, if she wants to achieve this goal, she can only "kill" the national football team if the group opponent South Korea is too strong.

Therefore, in the first round of the World Cup qualifying group stage, when the Thai team faced the national football team at home, Wu Lunpan not only offered a winning bonus of up to 3 million baht, but also announced an additional 10 million baht in rewards once promoted.

The Thai team scored the first goal, which made the team leader Lun Pan very excited, and the celebration was quite eye-catching.

In the top 36 of the 2023 World Preliminaries, the Thai team was eager to beat the Chinese team at home, but was reversed 2-1 by the national team. After the game, Wu Lunpan cried in pain.

During the game, she was more eye-catching than the Thai players off the court. When the Thai team scored the first goal, she ran to celebrate as a manager and high-fived the head coach, showing extreme excitement and joy. After that, the Thai team was gradually at a disadvantage, and Wu Lunpan's mood also changed.

The Chinese team equalized the score in the first half. At the last moment of the second half, when the Thai team lost the last goal, Wu Lunpan could not restrain his emotions and lay on his chair crying. This scene made Thai fans very sad and shocked many viewers and fans.

Off the court, 57-year-old Wu Lunpan's life is more exciting. In the eyes of some Thai media, she is Thailand's legendary goddess, one of the most elegant women in Thailand, and a real member of a distinguished family.

Forbes 2022 also named Wu Lunpan as one of the 50 most influential women in Asia.

In November 2019, Ng Lun Pan won the title of "2019 Thai Headline News Person of the Year". In September 2020, Forbes Asia released the 2020 Influential Women in Business List, selecting 25 female business leaders, and Ng Lun Pan was selected for the list. In 2022, Forbes also named her one of the 50 most influential women in Asia.

Entering the football circle gave Wu Lun the limelight he was looking forward to. Now, Wu Lunpan is even more ready to compete for the position of chairman of the Football Association of Thailand, and has roped in Chen Naiwen, the owner of Buriram Club in Thailand. In fact, he has a good chance of winning. In the eyes of many Chinese footballers, once Wu Lunpan is elected as the chairman of the Thai Football Association, the competition between China and Thailand in the 2026 World Cup preliminaries group stage will be even more interesting.

Wu Lun hopes that once the competition is successful and he is elected as the chairman of the Football Association of Thailand, the competition between the Chinese and Thai men's national football teams will be more interesting.

The Chinese Football Association reported the conflict in the AFC Champions League group stage.

In last week's AFC Champions League group match, after China's Zhejiang team defeated Thailand's Buriram United 3-2, a large-scale fight broke out between the two sides. Many players from the two teams may be suspended by the AFC. Afterwards, the Chinese Football Association issued a report on the conflict between the two parties on its official website and stated that it would assist the AFC in handling the conflict in accordance with regulations.

Interestingly, the investor Chen Naiwen of the Thai Buriram Club, which has formed a rivalry with the Zhejiang team, is also a Thai rich man and a Thai-Chinese. He will also serve as a consultant for Wu Lunpan's competition for the chairman of the Football Association of Thailand.

The Thai national team, where Wu Lunpan is the manager, wants to take revenge on the national football team, and the Thai Buriram club, where Chen Naiwen is the boss, also wants to ask for an explanation from the Zhejiang team. Once this pair takes the helm of the Thai Football Association in the future, the competition between Chinese and Thai football will obviously Add more stories.