Is Chinese football saved? In recent days, many high-level officials of the football association have been investigated, and the domino effect of this anti-corruption in football has to start with Li Tie, and on November 26 last year, Li Tie, the former head coach of the Chinese national football team, was suspected of serious violations of the law and was investigated by relevant departments. After that, the anti-corruption upsurge began.
On January 19, 2023, Liu Yi, executive member of the Football Association and former Secretary-General, and Chen Yongliang, Executive Deputy Secretary-General of the Football Association, were investigated;
On February 14, Chen Jiayuan, president of the Football Association and deputy secretary of the Party Committee, was investigated;
March 24. Wang Xiaoping, director of the Disciplinary Committee of the Football Association, and Huang Song, director of the competition department, were investigated;
On March 29, Yu Hongchen, chairman of the Chinese Athletic Association, and Dong Zheng, former general manager of the Chinese Super League Co., Ltd., were investigated;
On April 1, Du Zhaocai, deputy director of the General Administration of Sports, secretary of the Party Committee and vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association, was investigated;
Since Chen Jiayuan was found on February 14 and Du Maocai was investigated today, the "first and second leaders" of the football association have all fallen, and this timeline of the successive investigations of the senior officials of the football association can be vividly described as "corruption in the collapse method". This makes people feel that the corruption in football is so shocking, the entire tree inside football has rotted, Chinese football itself has not been solved, and what to talk about going to the world.
Everyone also applauded the successive downfalls of the top officials in the football world, saying that they should continue to grasp deeply, and must not let go of the fish that slipped through the net.
It is ironic to say that Du Maocai also ran for the FIFA Council in February this year, and it was good if he was not elected, if he was elected, it would really become a big joke and lose face abroad.
Since Li Tie was taken away for review, "big fish" have continued to break out, and some people say that Li Tie, the climax of anti-corruption in football, can be described as indispensable. These football moths not only infringe on national interests, but also the current situation of Chinese football that has not advanced and retreated for so many years is also inseparable from them.
The earthquake at the top of football has aroused great concern from everyone, and many people have renewed expectations for the future of Chinese football, but the development of a country's football cannot be achieved overnight just because of a certain anti-corruption in football.
For example, our big problem youth training, we find that playing table tennis and badminton in the park is not uncommon, but playing football in the stadium is rare, according to FIFA's definition of football population, the mainland's football population base is similar to Vietnam, Thailand, although the total population is huge, but the domestic football atmosphere is not strong, the real football industry is small, which can explain why some people say that 1.4 billion people can not pick out a dozen can play.
Of course, this wave of anti-corruption in football is indeed exciting, these people are vegetarian, the scourge of the development of Chinese football has been for a long time, I hope that in addition to the internal investigation of the senior management of the football association, the anti-corruption wind should also penetrate into all competition teams and youth training teams, only by severely cracking down on the internal use of power for personal gain, bureaucratic corruption, the development of Chinese football has a new future.