Chen Xuyuan was sentenced to life imprisonment, and Li Tie was next
The bribery case of Chen Xuyuan, the former chairman of the Chinese Football Association, was officially approved on March 26, and he was finally sentenced to life imprisonment. It only took a few years for Chen Xuyuan to become a prisoner from the chairman of the Football Association, and such a huge contrast also gave a warning to other relevant practitioners in the future.
According to the statement given at the time of the verdict, Chen Xuyuan received a total of more than 81.03 million yuan in bribes through various names, of which 4 million yuan was not actually obtained. Chen Xuyuan's bribes mainly came from two parts, one was that when he was the leader of the harbor group, he directly or through his wife and son successively accepted bribes from many companies and individuals, which amounted to 40 million yuan. The second part is that during his tenure as chairman of the Football Association, he accepted bribes from many clubs, according to the media, more than 20 clubs participated in the bribery, and the largest one came from Hebei Huaxia Happiness Club, which reached more than 30 million. In this trial, Chen Xuyuan received a lighter punishment because he exposed the criminal acts of others and actively returned the stolen goods.
In addition to Chen Xuyuan, Yu Hongchen, the former chairman of the Chinese Football Association, Dong Zheng, the former general manager of the Chinese Super League, and Chen Yongliang, the former executive deputy secretary general of the Chinese Football Association, have also been duly punished for corruption, and Li Tie's case will be publicly approved on March 28. The corruption of Chen Xuyuan and others has had an extremely bad impact on the ecology of Chinese football, both domestically and internationally, and the impression of Chinese football has further reduced points, or even fallen to the bottom.
At the trial scene, Chen Xuyuan said that he pleaded guilty and repented, and bowed at 90° for nearly 10 seconds in his final statement to express his apology to fans across the country. It is worth mentioning that Chen Xuyuan also had the best attitude of confession and repentance when the anti-corruption documentary was broadcast at that time, compared with the look of others who still looked a little aggrieved, Chen Xuyuan's attitude at that time was also satisfactory to the fans. At the scene of the trial, Chen Xuyuan said that Chinese football itself is relatively backward, but in such an environment he failed to meet the expectations of the fans, he had no face to face the fans, here he publicly apologized to the fans across the country, and also said sorry to the fans, hoping to get the fans' forgiveness and forgiveness.
In addition to personal bribery, Chen Xuyuan also had two things that caused strong dissatisfaction during his tenure, one was the unfinished naturalization matter, and the other was to ask the team to be neutral. Naturalization was originally in the hope that some Brazilian players could help the national football team enter the World Cup, but due to various complex reasons, the result was that the national football team did not get any improvement in strength, but regressed, and there were very few naturalized players who could be used, and there was even a farce of Goulart who took a high salary but did not play 1 game, and then regained his Brazilian hometown. The gender-neutral name policy has directly destroyed the already fragile Chinese club ecology, and in this extremely immature environment, Chen Xuyuan's idealized policy is tantamount to accelerating the death process of many Chinese clubs.