Since the Li Tie incident in November last year, Chinese football has ushered in waves of "taking away". From the former "head" of the Chinese Football Association, officials in important positions in the Football Association, to football players suspected of participating in fake and gambling balls, they have all been involved. But what is confusing is that in addition to Li Tie and the assistant coaches around him, there is no news that any Chinese Super League coaches have been investigated. Could it be that the coaches of the third-level professional club teams are all upright, and the so-called fake and gambling are all engaged in by the players involved behind the back of the coaching staff? A revelation by media person Li Pingkang on online social platforms may be able to give us the answer.
Li Pingkang posted on his personal social media: "Coach C has been checked for a while before, and it is not surprising that he was arrested, and people in the circle who were not arrested before feel strange!" According to Li Pingkang, the so-called C coach has been arrested for investigation, so who is this coach? In last season's third-tier professional football league, there was only one domestic coach whose surname began with a C in Pinyin, and he was Chen Yang, the head coach of the Chinese Super League Changchun Yatai team. Although Li Pingkang did not name names, and the relevant departments did not release official confirmation information, some of them could not reach a conclusion. But when it comes to Chen Yang as a coach, there is indeed a certain controversy. During his coaching period, Changchun Yatai team did play some incredible games.
For example, in the first round of the second phase of the Chinese Super League last season, Changchun Yatai's match against Shanghai Shenhua was questioned by the outside world at that time. In the case that Shanghai Shenhua team was sent off by the referee for 2 people, the players of Changchun Yatai team were like the inferior side, without a trace of survival at all. And Chenyang's behavior on the spot is also very puzzling, in the 11-9 numerical advantage and the score on the court has not broken the deadlock, Chen Yang did not increase the number of attacking players, took advantage of the situation to win the game, but veteran Dino replaced the team's offensive core Eric. In addition, in this situation, Chen Yang not only did not emphasize the attack, but also shouted defense to the players on the sidelines, as if he was afraid that the final score would not be 0-0. In the end, the score of the whole game did stay at 0-0.
It is worth mentioning that the referee on duty of this match is Ma Ning, the "golden whistle" of the Chinese Super League who represented the Chinese Football Association to the Qatar World Cup to enforce the law. His many moves in this game are really incomprehensible, and the way in which he handled the short strike of Shanghai Shenhua players in the first half is also debatable. In addition, the 2 red cards of the Shanghai Shenhua team can be said to have been applied for voluntarily, as if they must take it before the game. So what happened made the emotions of the Shenhua players so excited? If we assume that it was because the game was decided early, then everything seems to make sense.
In the history of Changchun Yatai's Chinese Super League last season, there were many games like this, and there were even the main goalkeepers who were absent-minded, with 2 amateur-level mistakes in a single game. In the previous season, Chen Yang led the Changchun Yatai team to qualify for the AFC Champions League, and with such a high-profile coaching performance, Chen Yang once joined the assistant coaching group of the Chinese senior men's football team. But the great contrast between Changchun Yatai's two seasons before and after is really confusing. If Li Pingkang's revelation is true, and what he said about Coach C refers to Chen Yang, then last season's Changchun Yatai game and some players really need to be checked.