In just 3 months, four bigwigs in football were arrested, including former national football coach Li Tie, secretary general of the Football Association Liu Yi, Minister of State Management Chen Yongliang and President of the Football Association Chen Jiayuan, which caused great repercussions in the Chinese football industry. There is no doubt that compared with the football sweep 13 years ago, this time it is more vigorous and more determined. Chinese football from the last national football into the World Cup, 20 years not only has not made development, but has been regressing, can no longer see Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and other Asian strong teams taillights, people are very helpless, although the 2026 World Cup Asian zone has 8.5 places, but in the current situation, entering the World Cup is a luxury, can win in the World Preliminary Round may be very good.
What is worse is that before it was revealed that Li Tie, Chen Jiayuan and others had also sent a message to Li Xuan, a famous domestic marker, before they were taken away, it seemed that there was still an element of threat. Football reporters broke some inside information in the football field, which is to make the industry more open and transparent, and it is also a righteous move, but these wrongdoers in order to cover up the truth and specially send messages to whistleblowers, which is really infuriating. Li Tie's arrest was the trigger for the anti-corruption campaign in football, and it was the "Football Newspaper" and the newspaper's reporter Li Xuan who first broke the news that Li Tie signed a contract with the Wuhan team.
In the past two days, Li Xuan has continuously broken the news on social media that former national football coach Li Tie and Football Association President Chen Jiayuan have asked people to bring her words. When Li Tie was also the manager of the national football team, after his unsavory things were exposed, Li Tie asked Li Xuan to send a message, asking her not to continue to write these manuscripts, and moreover, he also asked Li Xuan not to give feedback, if he did what he said, this matter would pass like this, otherwise he would sue Li Xuan.
And Chen Jiayuan's attitude is better, the threat component is not as big as Li Tie, but he also let others bring words to Li Xuan when he is Chinese New Year's Eve, probably hoping that Li Xuan will not continue to break the news, and wants things to pass like this. It has to be said that from this point, it can be seen that Chinese football does need some journalists who dare to break the news, which will make Chinese football better and better.
Li Tie and Chen Jiayuan have now entered, they are both suspected of serious violations of law and discipline, it can be said that Li Xuan and the "Football Newspaper" revelations are basically true, completely based on the facts. I don't know if they regret it now, I know why today, Li Tie and Chen Jiayuan have a huge influence in the football industry, their prospects were originally bright, and now because they have gone astray, they may not appear in public for a long time.
On February 22, Li Xuan talked about two things about football on social media, first, Du Zhaocai is presided over the work of the football association normally, and the video that was previously circulated on the Internet about him being taken away at the airport must be fake, basically to Chen Jiayuan, almost the finale, there should be no backstage behind. Second, Li Xuan also said that he looked forward to Chen Jiayuan providing information inside, to see who he would confess, and some clubs.
During Chen Jiayuan's three and a half years in office, he was mainly responsible for the work of the national football team, while Liu Yi, secretary general of the Football Association, was in charge, responsible for leagues at all levels, business development, etc., Sun Wen, who was supported by everyone, was in charge of women's football, and Gao Hongbo only served as the head of youth training.