According to CCTV news, the CCTV Comprehensive Channel of China Central Radio and Television broadcast the fourth episode of the annual anti-corruption blockbuster "Continue to Promote In-depth Advancement" on the 9th.
The Party and the state attach great importance to sports and pay great attention to the reform and development of Chinese football. 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 made promoting reform the first priority. However, they all feel that the reform is difficult and slow to produce results, and instead of spending energy to gnaw this hard bone, it is better to reap some benefits for themselves while betting on the hope of "political achievements" on the World Cup.
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 a dozen high-level and middle-level cadres of the Chinese Football Association were reviewed and investigated.
Chen Xuyuan, former chairman of the Chinese Football Association: After reading the reform and development plan, I felt that I could not do many things in this matter, when the Football Association was in office. In fact, it is also a question of the concept of political performance. I think that in my office, the national team can participate in the World Cup, doesn't that prove that Chen Xuyuan is very capable.
At that time, there was another person who also wanted to bet on the World Cup, and that was Li Tie. He feels that the false record achieved by match-fixing has accumulated capital for the position of head coach of the men's national football team, but he still needs to push it again. 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, he felt that the opportunity had come.
Li Tie, former head coach of the Chinese national men's football team: Because I wanted to be the head coach of the national team so much, I thought of a lot of ways, found a lot of people to ask for help, and found the leaders of the Football Association, who could help me say good things and recommend me.
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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 into the position, 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.
Chen Xuyuan, former chairman of the Chinese Football Association: The club sent me money and recommended it to me. He said that Chairman Chen, Li Tie is a good person, and the head coach (position) of the national selection team can create an opportunity and a platform for his future.
Liu Yi, former secretary general of the Chinese Football Association: (Li Tie) asked me to chat about the construction of the national team, and at that time took this opportunity to give me money. He said that he hoped that the Secretary-General would give you more support, and I said no problem, I will definitely support you.
In this way, Li Tie became the head coach of the men's football national selection team as he wished. After Lippi's resignation, he was immediately appointed as the head coach of the men's national team. The day after the position was confirmed, Li Tie flew to Wuhan to negotiate a deal with Zall Club.
Tian Xudong, former chairman of Wuhan Zall Club: In fact, it is an exchange of interests, and the talk is very naked. Which players I'm bringing in, which players are probably going to give playing time, it's definitely going to be a good relationship at the level of the Football Association and help you with some resources. He offered us so many very tempting chips and asked us for money.
Li Tie signed a so-called contract with Zall Club with a total amount of 60 million yuan, but in fact, it was just a cover to cover up the essence of the power-for-money transaction. He quickly added four players from the Zall squad to the national squad.
Tian Xudong, former chairman of Wuhan Zall Club: When I saw the national team list that day, my face was red. What do you mean, I know the ability of our players, I can't get in, I can't get any of them.
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 investment in youth training, when the league is full of unhealthy tendencies and money may determine the outcome of the game, this 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.
Player involved in the case Li Fei: As insiders, we don't have confidence, really. Often you are in a negative game, both mentally and physically, you are in a very relaxed state, and you are not always in a very concentrated state to complete these technical tactics. Then you have been for a long time, and when you want to tighten up again, you can't keep it tight.
Zheng Bin, former assistant coach of Li Tie's team: Modern football is absolutely scientific, and football games still need real games, so that players and coaches can be truly trained.
Li Tie was appointed as the head coach of the national football team from January 2, 2020, to December 3, 2021, when he was dismissed by fans in a scolding situation. The result of quick success is that it rises quickly and falls quickly. I don't know if he still remembers that the reason why he was successful when he was a player was because he "couldn't run", not because he ran "fast".
Li Tie, former head coach of the Chinese national men's football team: I regret it very much, but I still have to be down-to-earth and take the right path. Don't rush for quick success, and don't try to take shortcuts.
It was not only Li Tie who fell on the road of taking shortcuts. Hebei Huaxia Happiness and Wuhan Zall Club have now announced their dissolution. Du Zhaocai and Chen Xuyuan also failed to get the "political achievements" they wanted, but both fell off. It's the same old saying: football is round, and no amount of power and money can shape it arbitrarily.
Chen Xuyuan, former chairman of the Chinese Football Association: Fans can tolerate the backwardness of Chinese football, but they cannot forgive corruption. As president of the Football Association, I have the main responsibility. I want to deeply apologize to the fans of the whole country, I was wrong, I really think I was wrong, I regret it very much. There is no regret medicine to buy, and if there is a regret pill to buy, I am willing to buy it back with my life, and I will not do this kind of thing again.
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From hating match-fixing the most to actively selling match-fixing
Li Tie has led the team to surpass the success many times......
With the comprehensive deepening of the series of cases, the deep-seated problems in the field of football have gradually emerged.
Luo Yu, staff of the Hubei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision: The reason why Li Tie was able to become the head coach of the national team is because he has led two Chinese 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 turned to coaching after retiring, and in August 2015 he joined Hebei Huaxia Happiness Club as 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.
Li Tie, former head coach of the Chinese men's national football team: When I was a player, the people I hated the most were those who played match-fixing. But because I know that this will probably help us increase our chances of becoming a manager for the first time in my own right, I have the mentality of wanting to prove myself.
The investigation found that the atmosphere of Jinyuan football 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 by 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.
Meng Jing, former chairman of Hebei Huaxia Happiness Club: Our company's culture is to do everything possible to achieve the goal, and the so-called "doing everything possible" includes some improper means. I hope to get good results as soon as possible and have an impact on the company's brand.
After Li Tie took office, he played a magical eight-game winning streak 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 miracle of rushing over is completely manipulated behind the back by the hand of money. For example, in the last game of the season, China Fortune must win or draw to ensure that it can overtake, and the club has spent a lot of money on it.
Meng Jing, former chairman of Hebei Huaxia Happiness Club: In the last game, we spent about 14 million yuan. At that time, I greeted the Shenzhen team club, the head coach and the players.
At the same time, for the sake of multiple insurances, Li Tie's coaching team is responsible for directly buying the opposing players from the individual level. Li Tie instructed assistant coach Zheng Bin and contacted Zheng Bin's hometown in the Shenzhen team, the main defender Li Fei.
Zheng Bin, the former assistant coach of Li Tie's team: Our strength should exceed it (Shenzhen Yuheng), and we can win by playing normally, but we want to find some ways to achieve 100% win, and everyone attaches too much importance to this result.
Li Fei offered 6 million yuan, saying that he would help them play a number of key players, and Huaxia Happiness agreed. Ironically, if it weren't for this investigation, no one would have known that the 6 million Riffae had actually been taken by themselves.
Player involved in the case Li Fei: Actually, I didn't look for anyone, because at that time, no matter the right time, place and people, they all had the advantage. We were away at the time, and we had just finished the relegation, and our hearts were already scattered, so we thought about the last game, everyone was not injured, and we would have a holiday after the last game.
As Li Fei judged, his interception of the 6 million did not affect Huaxia Happiness and finally won 2:0. A game that should be won by strength, but it is inclined to take the crooked path of evil, behind the absurdity, is an extreme mentality of quick success.
Li Tie, former head coach of the Chinese national men's football team: If you achieve "success" in this improper way, you will actually make yourself more and more eager for quick success. In order to achieve results, finding referees to do work, buying opposing players and coaches, and some clubs looking for clubs have become a Xi, and even a little dependence later.
Li Tie tasted the sweetness of match-fixing at Huaxia Happiness Club, and by 2017, when he was hired as the head coach of Wuhan Zall Club, he began to take the initiative to promote match-fixing to the club.
Tian Xudong, former chairman of Wuhan Zall Club: When I first came into contact with match-fixing, you may not think that it was Li Tie who came to me, so I said that it seemed that this was 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.
Luo Yu, a staff member of the Hubei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision: Fans are invested in real feelings, but what they see is a fake show, and the happy memories are all fictional, which will give people a feeling of instant collapse. Little by little, this feeling can erode everyone's enthusiasm for football.
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Can't resist the temptation of "old rules".
Senior officials of the Football Association accepted tens of millions of yuan from many clubs
On February 1, 2022, with the defeat of the Chinese national men's football team to Vietnam and the announcement of missing the Qatar World Cup two rounds ahead of schedule, the expectations of Chinese fans once again ended in disappointment. While many sports in China are booming, the level of men's football has been declining, fake gambling scandals are frequent, and the industry is chaotic, and the expectations of the people are gradually drifting away. What happened to Chinese football? This is a question that countless fans have been asking for many years. Starting from the end of 2022, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission, together with the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China and the Hubei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, have adopted the "room-group-local" joint case-handling mechanism to thoroughly investigate a series of corruption cases in the football field and dig deep into the root causes of the problems behind them.
An important reason why unhealthy trends continue to grow and spread in the football world is that the Chinese Football Association, which should have been responsible for supervision, has many cadres who have been unable to resist the temptation and have been coerced into the club's capital game for many years.
Chen Xuyuan was elected as the sixth chairman of the Chinese Football Association on August 22, 2019 at the Xianghe National Football Training Base in Hebei Province. 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.
Chen Xuyuan, former chairman of the Chinese Football Association: Come to my room, put the backpack on my sofa, and say Chairman Chen congratulates you, congratulations, and I hope you can take care of me. And then I said something, and he said the old rules, and we all do.
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, the task force dissected the risk points of clean government and 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.
Luo Yu, a staff member of the Hubei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision: The league management has long been managed and managed, 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 hunters, kidnapped by the club and the capital behind the club, giving up the right to supervise the football industry.
And 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, 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, former deputy director of the General Administration of Sports of China and former secretary of the Party Committee of the Chinese Football Association: I have not played a good role as a "goalkeeper" in the anti-corruption struggle of Chinese football. In the hunt for the interests of the club owners, it is actually a subjective reason, and it is not strictly controlled, and some go with the flow.
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. However, Du Zhaocai secretly changed his concept and used the so-called research to perfunctory.
Cui Haifei, second-level inspector of the 16th Review and Investigation Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission: The investigation was changed to research, and no problems were found, and no one was dealt with, but only an investigation report was made. 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.
Source: CCTV News
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