The "price" of the head coach of the national football team is 3 million? Li Tie: When I play football, I hate people who play match-fixing the most
On January 9, the fourth episode of the four-episode TV feature film "Continue to Promote in Depth" jointly produced by the Propaganda Department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission and China Central Radio and Television was broadcast.
Through Du Zhaocai, former deputy director of the General Administration of Sports of China and former secretary of the Party Committee of the Chinese Football Association, Chen Xuyuan, former chairman of the Chinese Football Association, and Li Tie, former head coach of the Chinese national men's football team, this feature film tells the story of our party has always fought corruption with the most thorough self-revolutionary spirit, focused on key issues, key areas, and key objects, fought corruption and punished evil with a zero-tolerance attitude, and promoted the integration of not daring to be corrupt, not being corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt, and resolutely winning the fight against corruption.
Regarding the series of anti-corruption cases in football, China News Weekly published a cover report "Foot "Prisoner" Storm in July 2023, and now more details have been disclosed in the feature film.
China News Weekly learned that whether it is the national football team that is preparing for the Asian Cup in Doha, Qatar, or the Chinese Football Association working in the back, the majority of people in the sports world have watched this episode of anti-corruption feature film at the same time.
Send money all the way and spend 3 million to become the coach of the national football team
The feature film disclosed that Li Tie was the first person to be subject to supervision and investigation and was detained in this project. He has served as a coach in many clubs, and also served as the head coach of the Chinese national men's football team, and his relationship in the football field is intertwined.
The reason why Li Tie was able to become the head coach of the national team is because he has led two Chinese League A teams to successfully enter the Chinese Super League, which actually played a very good role in his industry status. But in fact, Li Tie led the team to the Chinese Super League twice, and there were a lot of match-fixing behind him.
Li Tie said that what he hated most when he played football was people who played match-fixing. Screenshot of picture/video
The survey found that the "Jinyuan football" atmosphere driven by some wealthy clubs is an important catalyst for the deterioration of the atmosphere in Chinese football. Hebei Huaxia Happiness Club saw that Evergrande Club had brought a huge brand effect by investing in football, so it also tried to follow Evergrande's example of seeking short-term quick results through "burning money", and set the goal of surpassing success in the first year, qualifying for the AFC Champions League in the second year, and winning the Super League in the third year.
After Li Tie took over as the head coach of China Happiness Club, he played a wave of magical "eight consecutive wins" in the last eight games of the season, which made China Happiness finally lead its competitors by one point and surpass success. After investigation, the so-called "super-miracle" is completely manipulated behind the back by the hand of money. For example, in the last game of the season, Huaxia Fortune must win or draw to ensure that it can surpass, and the club has spent a lot of money on it.
Li Tie tasted the "sweetness" of match-fixing at Huaxia Happiness Club, and when he was hired as the head coach of Wuhan Zall Club in 2017, he began to take the initiative to promote match-fixing to the club. Tian Xudong, the former chairman of Wuhan Zall Club, told the task force that when Li Tie found him seeking match-fixing, he was surprised, "as if this is not the Li Tie in my mind."
At the instigation of Li Tie, Wuhan Zall Club also decided to "rush" at any cost. On October 6, 2018, Wuhan Zall successfully overtook three rounds ahead of schedule.
In August 2019, when he learned that the Chinese Football Association was going to form a men's national selection team to participate in the East Asian Cup, Li Tie thought of a lot of ways, found many people to ask for help, and found the leaders of the Football Association, who could help him say good things and recommend him to become the coach of the national football team.
Li Tie's idea of bribing is the same as playing match-fixing, and he feels that he needs multiple insurances. On the one hand, he lobbied the Zall Club to pay for him to do the work, saying that if he could "get on top", he would also repay the club in many ways, and the club took out 2 million yuan to bribe Chen Xuyuan for this. On the other hand, Li Tie felt that Liu Yi, the secretary general of the Football Association at the time, also had a lot of right to speak, so he gave Liu Yi 1 million yuan out of his own pocket.
spent a total of 3 million yuan to make Li Tie the coach of the national football team, and after taking charge of the national football team, Li Tie signed a so-called "contract" with a total amount of 60 million yuan with a total amount of 60 million yuan, which was actually just a cover to cover up the essence of the power and money transaction. He quickly added four players from the Zall squad to the national squad.
The feature film pointed out that once the selection of players and coaches is used as a weight for personal gain, it is inevitable that they will not produce results. What's more, systematic youth training and a healthy league are the foundation of the national team, when many parties are keen on short-term interests and ignore the investment in youth training; when the league is full of unhealthy tendencies, money may determine the outcome of the game, this kind of polluted football soil naturally cannot provide sufficient nutrients for cultivating talents. When fans were still looking forward to Li Tie being able to lead the men's national football team to the World Cup, many insiders already knew that such a miracle could not happen.
"It's the old rule, we're all like this"
Chen Xuyuan was elected as the sixth chairman of the Chinese Football Association at the Xianghe National Football Training Base in Hebei Province on August 22, 2019. And the night before he was elected, two heads of local football associations knocked on his door one after another, and each gave him 300,000 yuan to "worship the pier", asking him to take care of him. Before Chen Xuyuan took office, he felt the huge benefits hidden in this circle, and then he was willing to fall into it.
In the feature film, Chen Xuyuan said, "(The person in charge of the local football association) came to my room, put the backpack on my sofa, and said Chairman Chen congratulates you, congratulates you, I hope to take care of you more, and then I said something, he said the old rules, we are all like this." ”
Chen Xuyuan, who can't stop the "old rules", naturally can't stop the club's huge gold yuan offensive, and he has received tens of millions of yuan from many clubs in the past few years. The chairman of the Football Association is like this, and the heads of many departments of the Football Association have also crossed the sea to show their powers. Through their case analysis, the task force found that although the Football Association is only a social organization, it actually holds huge public resources and public power, but its power has lost supervision and restraint, resulting in the popularity of "relying on football to eat football".
The staff of the Hubei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision said that the league management has long been managed without distinction, and the Football Association has both supervision and organization, and the power is too centralized, which will definitely bring great risks. Regulators have also become "hunted", kidnapped by the club and the capital behind the club, giving up the right to supervise the football industry.
Du Zhaocai, former deputy director of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China and former secretary of the Party Committee of the Chinese Football Association, also used public and private weapons, "relying on sports to eat sports" and "relying on football to eat football", accepting tens of millions of yuan in property and letting the chaos in the football world go unchecked.
Du Zhaocai said that he did not do a good job as a "goalkeeper" in the fight against corruption. Screenshot of picture/video
In 2022, there were clues that some matches in the Chinese League were suspected of match-fixing, and after receiving the relevant clues, the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China asked Du Zhaocai to take the lead in investigating and dealing with it, but Du Zhaocai secretly changed the concept and used the so-called "research" to perfunctory.
The feature film mentioned that Du Zhaocai changed the investigation into a study, did not find any problems, and did not deal with anyone, but just made a research report. He should have led the Party Committee of the Chinese Football Association to shoulder the main responsibility of Chinese football in a comprehensive and strict manner, but he did not dare to grasp and manage, which also led to serious corruption in the field of Chinese football and the deterioration of the industry ecology to a certain extent.
In 2015, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Chinese Football", emphasizing the need to focus on the long-term and consolidate the foundation, continue to work hard, and work hard for a long time. Du Zhaocai and Chen Xuyuan, as the heads of the Football Association, should have implemented the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and promoted reform as the first priority, however, they both felt that the reform was difficult and slow.
Chen Xuyuan said that he was willing to buy "regret medicine" with his life. Screenshot of picture/video
In the feature film, Chen Xuyuan said: "Fans can tolerate the backwardness of Chinese football, but they cannot forgive corruption. As the president of the Football Association, I am mainly responsible, I want to deeply apologize to the fans across the country, I was wrong, I really think I was wrong, I regret myself very much, there is no regret medicine to buy, if there is regret medicine to buy, I am willing to buy it back with my life, I will not do this kind of thing again. ”
There is no "end" to anti-corruption in football
In November 2022, Li Tie, the former head coach of the Chinese national men's football team, was investigated by the supervisory authorities, and the anti-corruption campaign in football kicked off.
Subsequently, more than 10 high-level and middle-level cadres of the Chinese Football Association were reviewed and investigated, and the discipline inspection and supervision organs will also work with the public security organs to investigate dozens of people involved in the case, covering coaches, players, referees, club executives, agents and other aspects. With the comprehensive and in-depth investigation of a series of cases, the deep-seated problems in the field of football have gradually emerged.
The feature film mentioned that the investigation and handling of this series of cases is a bone scraping and poison treatment in the football field, and there are many things that need to be done in the future. Chinese football has taken a lot of detours, but there will always be fans who are obsessed with it, and there will always be children who approach it with dreams. They are happy when they win, sad when they lose, everything is clear and real. Their original intentions need to be cared for by football managers and practitioners.
China News Weekly has learned that in the future, the anti-corruption work in Chinese football will tend to be normalized, maintaining a high-pressure situation, and there is no so-called "end point".
The feature film pointed out that this anti-corruption in football is not only focused on the present, but also on the future. In view of the systemic corruption problems and industrial chaos that are discovered, the discipline inspection and supervision organs have carried out the work of using cases to promote reform and promote governance, earnestly strengthened supervision, and promoted relevant units to deeply learn lessons.
Yan Weiyao, director of the Second Supervision and Supervision Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission, pointed out that freezing three feet is not a day's cold, and there must be a process of melting ice. The investigation and handling of a series of football corruption cases is not only to investigate and deal with those few people, but more importantly, to promote the change of the ecology of the football field through the investigation and handling of this case, and to promote the sports department to learn lessons, deepen reforms, improve the system, clean up the source, and restore the green field to a clear ecology.
Author: Ye Zhufeng