Source: China News Network
At the point where the national football team is about to set foot on the Asian Cup for the first time in 5 years, three familiar faces in Chinese football - Du Zhaocai, Chen Xuyuan, and Li Tie appeared on TV, but this time it was in the anti-corruption feature film.
On the evening of the 9th, the annual anti-corruption feature film "Continue to Make Efforts to Promote in Depth" ushered in the last episode of "Promoting the "Three Non-Corruptions" in One".
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, a series of corruption cases in the football field were revealed.
Du Zhaocai faced the concept of match-fixing clues
During his tenure as Deputy Director of the General Administration of Sport of China and Secretary of the Party Committee of the Chinese Football Association, Du Zhaocai was responsible for football-related work, docking with FIFA, AFC, and the Inter-Ministerial Joint Conference on Football Reform and Development of the State Council, and was responsible for the training and participation of national teams at all levels of football, as well as the bidding and preparation for various events held in China.
At the meeting of all cadres of the Chinese Football Association held in March 2023, Du Zhaocai said that in the face of outstanding problems in the football industry, it is necessary to have the courage to face the problems.
However, a month later, the notice of Du Zhaocai's investigation appeared on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission. In October 2023, Du Zhaocai was expelled from the party and public office, and he was accused of "relying on sports to eat sports" and "relying on football to eat football", wanting to be an official and making a fortune, and engaging in power-for-money transactions.
The feature film disclosed that in 2022, there were clues that some matches in the Chinese League were suspected of match-fixing, and after receiving the relevant clues, the State General Administration of Sports asked Du Zhaocai to take the lead in investigating and dealing with it, but Du Zhaocai secretly changed his concept and used the so-called "research" to perfunctory.
Du Zhaocai confessed that he did not play a good role as a "goalkeeper" in the anti-corruption struggle of Chinese football, and in the "hunting" of the interests of the club owner, it was actually a subjective reason, and he did not strictly control it, and some went with the flow.
Chen Xuyuan took bribes the night before he became chairman of the Football Association
Chen Xuyuan took up the post of chairman of the Chinese Football Association in August 2019, and was the first full-time chairman of the Football Association and the first chairman of the association from a non-sports management system.
Before serving as the chairman of the Chinese Football Association, Chen Xuyuan also served as Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Shanghai International Port (Group) Co., Ltd.
On February 14, 2023, Chen Xuyuan reported that he was investigated. On September 26 of the same year, Chen Xuyuan was prosecuted.
The feature film disclosed that the night before Chen Xuyuan was elected chairman of the Chinese Football Association, 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.
"Come to my room, put the backpack on my sofa, and say Chairman Chen, congratulations, congratulations, I hope you can take care of you, and then I say something, he says the old rules, we are all like this. Chen Xuyuan confessed.
The feature film also disclosed that in the past few years, Chen Xuyuan has received tens of millions of yuan from many clubs.
Chen Xuyuan choked up and confessed: "Fans can tolerate the backwardness of Chinese football, but they can't 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. ”
Li Tie relied on bribing 9 "high-level" coaches
From January 2020 to December 2021, Li Tie served as the head coach of the Chinese men's national football team. As a player, he played in the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan, and also stayed in the English Premier League, Everton, Sheffield United and other clubs.
In November 2022, Li Tie reported that he was investigated, setting off an "anti-corruption storm" in Chinese football. On August 2, 2023, Li Tie was prosecuted.
The feature film disclosed that in August 2015, Li Tie joined Hebei Huaxia Happiness Club and served as the head coach for the first time. At that time, there were only 9 games left in the season, and Huaxia Happiness was only ranked 6th, and the prospect of surpassing was not optimistic. As soon as Li Tie took office, the club bluntly proposed that he would use his connections to buy his opponents.
After Li Tie took office, he played a magical "eight consecutive wins" in the last eight games of the season, which made Huaxia 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.
According to Meng Jing, the former chairman of Hebei Huaxia Happiness Club, he confessed: "In the last game, we spent about 14 million yuan, and we greeted the Shenzhen club, the head coach and the players. ”
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.
In August 2019, when Li Tie learned that the Chinese Football Association was going to form a men's national selection team to participate in the East Asian Cup, he felt that the opportunity had come.
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.
After becoming the coach of the national football team, Li Tie signed a so-called "contract" with Zall Club with a total amount of 60 million yuan, which was actually just used as 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.
Li Tie confessed in front of the camera: "I regret it very much. It is still necessary to be down-to-earth, but also to take the right path, not to rush for quick success, and not to do everything possible to take shortcuts. (ENDS)
[Source: Chinanews.com]