On February 1, 2022, the Chinese team lost 1-3 to Vietnam in the world preliminary round and missed the Qatar World Cup. Systemic and collapsing corruption is the root cause of football's declining decline. Discipline inspection and supervision departments have struck hard.
In November 2022, Li Tie, the former head coach of the Chinese men's football team, was investigated, and in May 2023, he was transferred to the procuratorate for investigation. Another anti-corruption campaign in football has begun. Since then, more than a dozen high-level or middle-level cadres have been examined and investigated. Include:
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 Football Association.
Chen Xuyuan, former chairman of the Chinese Football Association.
Tan Hai, former director of the technical department of the Football Association.
Huang Song, former director of the competition department of the Football Association.
Liu Yi, former secretary general of the Football Association.
Yu Hongchen, former secretary of the Party Committee of the Football Association.
Li Yuyi, former vice chairman of the Football Association.
Wang Xiaoping, former director of the Disciplinary Committee of the Football Association.
Chen Yongliang, former deputy secretary general of the Football Association.
Dong Zheng, former director of the market development department of the Football Association.
Qi Jun, former director of the Strategic Planning Department of the Football Association.
Liu Jun, former chairman of China Super League.
Ma Chengquan, former chairman of the Super League.
These guys are more than enough to form a football team, and they also have three substitutes. Li Tie plays forward, and Du Zhaocai is the goalkeeper.
Du Zhaocai said that it has become a common practice to do things by giving money and gifts. Chen Xuyuan said that the corruption of the Football Association is not in one aspect, but in all aspects. Li Tie said that many things are Xi in the football circle, but looking back, many are illegal and criminal.
Li Tie has served as the head coach of many clubs and the head coach of the Chinese men's football team, and the relationship in the football field is intertwined. He started to bring out a number of criminals suspected of violating laws and disciplines from the league to the national team, from clubs to the Football Association. In a way, his contribution is also "remarkable".
Li Tie was able to serve as the head coach of the national team mainly because he led the two Chinese League A teams to successfully surpass and establish his position in the industry. In fact, Li Tie's two overtakes were full of a lot of match-fixing.
Li Tie's first time as head coach was in Hebei Huaxia Happiness Team, and the team only ranked sixth in the standings with only 9 rounds of games left, and the situation was grim. The club hopes that Li Tie will use his connections to buy opponents after taking office, and Li Tie bluntly said that what he hated most when he was a player was someone who played match-fixing.
But Li Tie knew that if he wanted to succeed, he had to do it, and driven by interests, Li Tie began to go against his original intention. Jinyuan football became an important catalyst for corruption in football. Evergrande's football success has left other teams ready to move. You want to emulate the way you burn money to increase your influence and popularity.
After Li Tie took office, he won a miraculous eight-game winning streak! In the last game, Meng Jing, chairman of the Hebei Huaxia Happiness Club, admitted frankly that he spent 14 million yuan to deal with the head coach and players of the Shenzhen Yuheng team. At the same time, Li Tie instructed assistant coach Zheng Bin to contact his hometown Shenzhen team's main defender Li Qi. In fact, the team can win by playing normally, but in order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, special means are still used. Li Ting offered six million. In fact, Li Wan did not find any teammates to share the stolen money behind her back, but chose to swallow it alone.
Because the whole team had no fighting spirit at that time, Li Tie still won 2-0 smoothly in the end.
After Li Tie tasted the sweetness of match-fixing, he began to take the initiative to promote match-fixing to Wuhan Zall Club. Tian Xudong, chairman of Wuhan Zall Club, said that his first contact with match-fixing was when Li Tie looked for him, which was not like Li Tie in his mind. In 2018, Li Tie led Wuhan Zall Club to successfully surpass three rounds ahead of schedule.
The fans were very excited at the scene of the success of the super, but they didn't know that they were watching a fake show, but they invested in real feelings. This feeling can hurt the passion of the fans for football.
In fact, on the other hand, the Football Association is also seeking improper benefits in referee penalties, schedule arrangements, and relegation access. Chen Xuyuan said that he would not grasp this kind of atmosphere if he received money from the club, otherwise he would shoot himself in the foot. So he is also in a state of letting go.
In fact, the night before Chen Xuyuan took office, two local football associations handed over 300,000 Bai Wharf. He was already corrupt before he took office, and he also tasted the sweetness of corruption. After taking office, he was even more willing to fall into the "Golden Sea". After taking office, Chen Xuyuan received tens of millions of money from many clubs, the chairman of the Football Association, and the heads of other departments of the Football Association also showed their powers.
There is no distinction between league management and management, and the Football Association both supervises and organizes, relying on football to eat football. Too much centralization of power carries a lot of risk. The regulators have become hunted and held hostage by the various clubs and the capital behind them.
Du Zhaocai also accepted tens of millions of yuan in property, saying that he was a little drifting. In 2022, there will be public opinion on match-fixing in the Chinese League, and Du Zhaocai will secretly change the concept and replace the investigation with research. Didn't find any problems, didn't deal with anyone, just made a research report. He did not dare to grasp or manage, which led to the increasingly serious corruption problem in Chinese football. Just like Chen Xuyuan said, isn't it like lifting a stone to shoot yourself in the foot?
Chen Xuyuan looked at the football reform and development plan, but he was afraid of difficulties, and he felt that he couldn't do many problems. He wants to bet on Chinese football to reach the World Cup. Including Li Tie also wants to gamble on the World Cup. He has accumulated a lot of capital through match-fixing, but if he wants to be the head coach of the national team, he still needs to be pushed by the door. For this reason, Li Tie bribed many people, including lobbying the Zall club to contribute money, and he would also repay the club in player selection and other aspects, and the club took out 2 million to bribe Chen Xuyuan. Li Tie paid 1 million out of his own pocket to bribe Liu Yi. Li Tie became the head coach of the national team as he wished.
On the second day after Li Tie took office, he quickly returned to Wuhan Zall Club to discuss transactions with the chairman, such as which players to take to the national team, which players have playing time, and at the same time provide some network resources of the Football Association. With these tempting chips, the lion opened his mouth to ask for money, with a total amount of 60 million. Sign a so-called contract. Soon, Li Tie selected 4 Zall players to enter the national team squad.
Chairman Tian Xudong's face turned red when he saw the list of national team players, because he also thought that these people did not have the strength to enter the national team at all.
Nowadays, the training base of Hebei Huaxia Happiness Club has long been deserted, and Hebei Huaxia Happiness and Wuhan Zall have been disbanded. Chen Xuyuan also choked up and wept in his confession.
Fans can tolerate football backwardness, but they can't tolerate corruption. It is hoped that this anti-corruption campaign will deepen reform, improve the system, and clean up the green field.