Chinese football has been in turmoil recently, the president of the Football Association Chen Jiayuan has been arrested, and the anti-corruption storm is not over. After the Chinese men's football team lost to Vietnam on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Chinese football fell into an embarrassing situation that even Vietnam could not play. However, in the new AFC executive committee, there is no one from the Chinese Football Association at the top level, and the president of the Vietnam Football Association still serves as the chairman of the competition committee.
According to reporter Ma Dexing, the AFC officially announced the list of chairmen and vice chairmen of the new cycle of subordinate professional committees, with a total of 16 professional committees. Competition, referee and other committees are the most core committees. Du Zhao, the previous party secretary and vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association, was the chairman of the AFC referee committee, but this time the Chinese Football Association does not even have a vice chairmanship.
The president of the Vietnam Football Association was the chairman of the AFC competition committee in the last term, and he is still the chairman of this position. Due to the defeat of Du Zhaocai in this Bahrain election, the chairman of the previous referee committee, Hanni from the chairman of Qatar, was transferred from deputy to regular to take over the position of Du Zhaocai.
At present, no one in the Chinese Football Association is at the top of the special committee under the AFC, which also means that Chinese football is marginalized in the AFC. Originally, Chinese football had a certain status in the AFC, with the Chinese Super League team Guangzhou Evergrande winning the AFC Champions League twice and China even winning the right to host the 2022 Asian Cup. But now everything has been knocked back to square one.
It has to be said that Vietnamese football has now surpassed China, and Chinese football needs to find a right path as soon as possible. While developing the national team, we must also develop the league, and I believe that Chinese football will be better and better. (Akane)