The 2023 football sweep is still underway, but it is close to closing the net. Up to now, Li Tie and Liu Yi, Chen Yongliang, Chen Jiayuan, Wang Xiaoping, Huang Song, Yu Hongchen, Dong Zheng, Du Zhaocai and other 9 senior officials of the Football Association have fallen from the horse, as well as Hu Guangyu, deputy director of the Olympic Preparation Office, who was arrested in January 2023, about the same time as Chen Yongliang and Liu Yi were taken away. Liu Aijie, president of the Rowing Association, who is a close confidant of a former official of the General Administration of Sports surnamed G, is also known as the "minister of underground organizations", and Liu Aijie is also the deputy director of the Olympic Preparation Office, which also shows that the anti-gang crime in football has been upgraded to the anti-corruption in the sports world, and the use of Olympic preparation funds will be thoroughly investigated.
Du Zhao, 63, is the highest-ranking official to be arrested in football history, and in addition to being vice president of the Football Association, he is also the deputy director of the General Administration of Sports, and the president of the East Asian Football Federation. In terms of time, 8 days after Du Zhaocai has been arrested, he was on April 1, and in recent days, black materials about Du Zhaocai have continued to leak out, including chaos in his private life and the collection of 150 million Asian Cup hosting fees. On April 9, according to a domestic reporter Qin Yun wrote on social media, Du Zhaocai sent special envoys to him three times during his tenure, which was actually a warning to Qin Yun not to write negative news about Du Zhaocai anymore.
Du Zhaocai entered the Football Association in 2017 to hold an important position, 2 years earlier than Chen Jiayuan, so he is the veritable leader of the Football Association. According to Qin Yun's revelations, Du Zhaocai sent "special envoys" to find him three times in 2018 and 2022, hoping that he would stop reporting news about the Football Association.
First, in 2018, Qin Yun broke the news that there was an "underground transaction" in the bidding for the intelligent weak current system renovation project of the new office building of the Chinese Football Association. Du Zhaocai was very anxious after seeing it, and immediately sent a "special envoy" to find Qin Yun, and pointed out that such a report would bring trouble to Du Zhaocai, and hoped that "his subordinates would show mercy", and the words were not like a request but a warning, and if the relationship was good, they could cooperate.
Second, in 2022, Qin Yun wrote an article reporting that the 10 Asian Cup regions paid 150 million in bidding fees, an average of 15 million per city, and the staff around Du Zhaocai found Qin Yun and bluntly said that the content of the manuscript was not completely true and there were some flaws.
Third, after the dissolution of the Asian Cup organizing committee, Qin Yun talked about the hosting fee again, and as a result, Du Zhaocai's "special envoy" came again, hoping not to continue to report these things. And Qin Yun is also very domineering, if you want to find him, let them lead themselves.
Obviously, Du Zhao is weak-hearted, if he has a clear conscience, why do you need to ask someone to bring words to reporter Qin Yun. In fact, within the Football Association, not only Du Zhaocai often "threatened" reporters, but before the president of the Football Association, Chen Jiayuan, was arrested, he also sent a message to Li Xuan, a reporter from Football News, on the first day of the new year, hoping to live in peace and not be rattling.
In fact, the football world needs fighters like Qin Yun and Li Xuan to bravely expose some shady scenes in football and let the truth surface, and people like Du Zhaocai and Chen Jiayuan think they are high, and they also send their subordinates to warn reporters that after they fall off, no one will sympathize, almost all of them are mocking and criticizing, which is also self-inflicted. Among the high-level officials of the football association, only Sun Wen and Gao Hongbo and others retreated, Chen Jiayuan and Du Zhaocai's two factions were almost wiped out, and the new president of the football association may be born in Sun Wen and Gao Hongbo, let's wait and see.