The anti-corruption action against Chinese football has lasted for 16 months, and the breakthrough of this anti-corruption is the former national football coach Li Tie, because Li Tie was taken away for investigation on November 26, 2022, so the start time of this round of football anti-corruption has also been unanimously recognized by the public as November 26, 2022, after 16 months, the Intermediate People's Court of Xianning City, Hubei Province conducted a public trial of Li Tie in the first instance, Chinese Super League players, club executives and even referees, the number of people is outrageous
And the protagonist of today's discussion, Shandong football star Wang Yongpo, is also deeply involved in this anti-corruption turmoil, but what is unexpected is that when Li Tiedong's window incident and former teammates Jin Jingdao and Sun Zhunhao were arrested one after another, Wang Yongpo disappeared without a trace as if the world had evaporated, until he was recently photographed by a netizen, Wang Yongpo, who had disappeared for more than 1 year, appeared in a football league in Los Angeles, USA, and all kinds of speculations and rumors about him were set off again
Li Tie's case is not much to talk about, everyone almost understands it very clearly, but about the Chinese Super League club Shandong Taishan team, it has a very important role in the anti-corruption investigation for more than 1 year, because the Chinese Super League has experienced nearly 10 years of "Jinyuan era", then the various sky-high costs incurred in the middle must have an unspeakable insider, and in the entire Chinese Super League, the former Chinese Super League champion Shandong Taishan team even once became a club with the most investigators taken away, in the first half of 2023, from the coach, From the assistant coach to the players, nearly 10 relevant personnel were taken away for investigation, and the one that attracted the most attention was South Korean foreign aid Son Joon-ho
Because he is South Korean, he was taken away for investigation to arouse the attention of the whole of South Korea, from the South Korean media to South Korean fans, and even the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then learned from the official media that Sun Junhao was criminally detained by the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Bureau in accordance with the law on suspicion of "accepting bribes from non-state workers", and was officially approved by the Chinese prosecutor for arrest, until 319 days later, Sun Junhao returned to South Korea on March 25, 2024, after ending 10 months of detention
Why do you want to talk about Sun Junhao? Because of his violation of the law in China, he was dragged into the water by another Shandong Taishan teammate, that is, Jin Jingdao, who was born in Yanji City, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin Province and is proficient in Korean, at present, from the information held by the major media, Jin Jingdao is not a small role in this Super League anti-corruption operation, he is very likely to be a trader behind him, because he knows Korean very well, so Sun Zhun Hao should have been dragged into the water by him to participate in match-fixing, Shandong Taishan team was the key personnel of Jin Jingdao, so many people in the team were taken away for investigation, so the bread here does not include Wang Yongpo we are talking about todayI provide clues, and you analyze them
Li Tie was taken away for investigation on November 26, 2022, and Wang Yongpo has been playing for Shenzhen football since 2020, it can be said that the two seem to have no connection, but the strange thing is that Wang Yongpo's social media began to stop at the end of October 2022 Before that, he left a bunch of questions: Did Wang Yongpo retire? Did he leave the Chinese Super League due to injury? Even if he moved to an overseas league, why didn't there be any news for more than a year? The most important thing is that in his entire resume in the Chinese Super League, in addition to playing for Shandong Taishan team, there is also Tianjin Quanjian Club, which was publicly named by the court for this football anti-corruption, and this club has now been disbanded
Born in 1987, Wang Yongpo came from a football family, his uncle is Shandong football legend Wang Haifang, when Wang Yongpo started playing football at the age of 5, his uncle Wang Haifang was already famous in Shandong, so it was under the guidance and recommendation of his uncle Wang Haifang that Wang Yongpo began to really embark on the road of football. To describe, on the one hand, his football talent is very high, on the other hand, with his uncle's training and connections, Wang Yongpo entered the Luneng Football School under Shandong Luneng Taishan Football Club in 1999
In 2003, 16-year-old Wang Yongpo officially entered the first team of Shandong Luneng, from the A League to the Chinese Super League, Wang Yongpo stayed in Shandong Luneng for more than 12 years (Shandong Luneng was renamed Shandong Taishan in February 2021), during which he won 4 Chinese Super League championships for Shandong Luneng, 1 runner-up in the Chinese Super League and a Chinese Super League FA Cup champion, it can be said that Wang Yongpo was once an indispensable general of Shandong Luneng, and has since gained the resounding nickname of "Chinese Rooney".
In 2017, Wang Yongpo transferred to Tianjin Quanjian team, but on March 26, 2024, the Intermediate People's Court of Huangshi City, Hubei Province, conducted a public name call when the Intermediate People's Court of Huangshi City, Hubei Province conducted a public trial of Chen Xuyuan, Yu Hongchen, Chen Yongliang, Dong Zheng and other former senior officials of the Chinese Football Association! Tianjin Quanjian and Hebei Huaxia Happiness, and Wang Yongpo has played for a total of 2 years in the Tianjin Quanjian team, (Amway, a place to watch football: live broadcast and replay of sports events are free to watch| Link3) And in order to catch up with Wang Yongpo, Tianjin Quanjian team launched a long tug-of-war with Shandong Luneng for more than 1 month, which shows that Wang Yongpo had a high value in the transfer market of the Chinese Super League at that time, but many fans who are familiar with Wang Yongpo also remember that he was once nicknamed "white chicken" by fans because of his fattening figure, and then this word has also become synonymous with fans satirizing national football players
Finally, Wang Yongpo is now in the United States, a Chinese living in Los Angeles, USA, posted a photo and video with Wang Yongpo on social media, the video shows that Wang Yongpo, wearing the No. 10 jersey, is playing a football game that seems to be an amateur, and then learned that this is most likely the American Professional League NISA
This league is equivalent to the third division, and Wang Yongpo joined the first professional football club in North America founded by Chinese investment "Irvine Zeta", Irvine Zeta is the first Chinese-funded team in the American league, the club was established in September 2022, is the founder and chairman of Zeta Sports Group Cary Founded by Lyu, the team Irvine Zeta only reached an agreement with the National Football League (NISA) on March 16, 2024, to compete in the 2024 season, and there is also a teammate of Wang Yongpo's Shandong Luneng team, Lu Zheng, in this team
However, it was found that Lu Zheng also flew to the United States at the end of September 2022 to join Irvine Zeta as an assistant coach and player, this timeline is very close to the end of October 2022 when Wang Yongpo "disappeared".
In the comment area of this video, from a message from a local Chinese, it can be known that Wang Yongpo may not only go to the United States to play football, he and his wife have settled in the United States, if you look at it this way, it makes sense, Wang Yongpo is only 37 years old this year, the only and can get the "craft" is football, the personal resume of the football career is also excellent, plus there is a teammate Lu Zheng playing in a local football club, and this club is invested and founded by Chinese, so it has long been "not bad money." Wang Yongpo is likely to decide to play happily in this kind of low-level league in the United States
Editor: Tang Bohu