For Chinese fans, they believe that many leagues in Asia may have a "match-fixing" situation, including Japan and Australian leagues, but all this is speculation, at present, the level of the Japanese Professional League, K League and Australian League is still in the forefront of Asia, and the fan culture of these leagues is very good, especially the Japanese Professional League can be said to be the first in Asia. However, in such a peaceful situation, the Disciplinary Committee of the Japan Football Association has recently imposed a rare fine on a team in the fourth level, and the reason is that it is laughable.
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Suzuka Infinity, a team in Japan's fourth division, has always been the most watched of many japanese football clubs, not only because they have been promoted directly from the regional league to the JFL league in Japan's fourth division with a rapid trend, nor because they have the first female head coach of Japanese football, but because in the new season they will have a heavyweight new signing, he is the legend of Japanese football Miura Chiryo. In the new season, the 55-year-old former Japan international has been confirmed to be loaned to Suzuka Infinity by Yokohama FC in the J2 League, with such a legendary star joining, Suzuka Infinity is also attracting countless fans, it seems that Japan is still very ahead of Asia in promoting this piece.
But just when fans wanted to see the team's style, a penalty from the Japan Football Disciplinary Committee came first, announcing that they would impose a fine of 5 million yen (about 257,000 yuan) on the club, because the club was suspected of deliberately losing last season! It turned out that in the 30th round of the JFL League in the 2020 season, Suzuka Infinity would play against Sendai Sony (a former Japanese corporate team, that is, all players 2 from Sony employees), and in the absence of an upgrade license, even if they ranked 5th, they could not upgrade the J3 League, but the result of their duel would affect the upgrade prospects of their sworn enemy In the same city, Triple Fourteen, so the team executives immediately issued an order to require the team to deliberately create penalties or lose goals!
Predictably, the club's players didn't want to listen to him at all, because playing match-fixing in Japan would be doomed if it was discovered that their football career would be over, so as many as 14 players signed a "full fight" pledge, determined to defy the will of the club's top brass, although they were still 0-1 down, but according to Swiss professional investigation agencies, they found no signs of manipulating the game. At this point, some people will think that there is no sign of it, so how was this matter revealed? It turned out that there was a "pig teammate" inside the club, who was the team's executive Daisuke Shiomi! He had been using this incident as an opportunity to blackmail the club, meaning to give him money without wanting the matter to be exposed, and as a result, the club gave him a total of 75 million yen before he closed his mouth, and in the blink of an eye, the complacent person shook everything out on social media.
In the end, Because of this incident, Daisuke Shiomi was sentenced to be banned from playing football for 2 years, and the club's top management was banned from participating in football for 2 to 3 months, and after the curtain fell, the biggest victims were still these players, because the Japanese Football Association was investigating whether the club was eligible to continue to participate in the league next, and the fans did not know whether they would have the opportunity to see Miura Chira step on this field.