The anti-corruption campaign in Chinese football in 2023 has lasted for 10 months, starting with the arrest of former national football coach Li Tie on November 9, 2022, and then it has not been possible to stop. Li Tie as the fuse, the task force began to dig deep from him, and in 2023, the football association system fell in an all-round way, including Liu Yi, Chen Yongliang, Chen Jiayuan, Du Zhaocai, Yu Hongchen and other football bigwigs were all arrested, and a total of 14 people were taken away for investigation. Among them, the 63-year-old Du Zhaocai has the highest level, he is the deputy director of the General Administration of Sports and serves as the vice chairman of the Football Association, but his real power is greater than Chen Jiayuan, and he can be called the real leader of the Football Association.
On August 2, there was a new development in Li Tie's case, he was indicted for five crimes, including bribery and bribery, and has been prosecuted, and in the next few months, Li Tie's case should have a result, and the suspense of how long he will be in will also be revealed. On September 26, the president of the Football Association, Chen Jiayuan, was indicted, and it can be seen from the official information that Chen Jiayuan was involved in a particularly large amount of money and will definitely be punished extremely severely.
At 3 p.m. on October 7, there was also a new development in Du Zhaocai's case, according to official information, Du Zhaocai's eight crimes were exposed, he was about to be prosecuted, and the proceeds of violations of discipline and law would also be confiscated. 1. Confrontation with censorship; 2. Illegal acceptance of gifts and gifts; 3. Accepting banquets from others in violation of regulations; 4. Failure to report personal matters in accordance with regulations, and failure to truthfully explain the problem; 5. Rely on sports to eat sports, rely on football to eat football; 6. Power and money trading; 7. Use the convenience of position to seek benefits for others in enterprise operation and employee recruitment; 8. Illegally accepting huge amounts of property.
There is no doubt that compared with Li Tie, Chen Jiayuan and Du Zhaocai, Du Zhaocai is involved in more serious matters than Chen Jiayuan. In the 2009 anti-corruption campaign in Chinese football, Xie Yalong, Yang Yimin, Nan Yong and other senior officials of the Football Association were involved in the case of more than 1 million yuan, and finally went in for more than 10 years. And Du Zhaocai is estimated to be in prison, and it is likely to break the record of anti-corruption sentences in football.
Previously, reporter Ran Xiongfei broke the news that Du Zhaocai's involvement reached tens of millions, but this may only be a part, because Du Zhaocai also worked as a senior official in other sports fields before going to the Football Association. Moreover, Du Zhaocai is also very fun-loving, his private life is also relatively chaotic, and he has a close relationship with the female boss of a club. After the official news came out, Li Xuan, a reporter from "Football News", also posted that Du Zhaocai did violate life discipline, including the relationship between men and women. It can be seen that Du Zhaocai's private life is no secret in the industry, he is more than 60 years old, which is very speechless.
In this case, the Du Zhaocai case should also be pronounced in 2023, Li Tie and Chen Jiayuan, Du Zhaocai have been indicted, followed by the other 11 senior executives of the Football Association, and some international footballers, club executives and coaches in the Chinese Super League have also been taken away, and they will also be punished by law.