On the afternoon of July 25, Beijing time, the Chinese Football Association announced the 15th referee review work of the 2024 season. Two of the precedents are aimed at the two similar kicking incidents of Shandong Taishan Cressan and Chengdu Rongcheng Wei Shihao, which have attracted high attention in the Chinese Super League recently, and the review and analysis believe that the two precedents are different in nature, Cressan is a serious foul, while Wei Shihao is a violent act, and the referee omitted a direct red card for Cressan on the spot.
For these two precedents, the Chinese Football Association review team unanimously believes that the action of Cressan, the No. 9 player of the Shandong Taishan team, belongs to the use of excessive strength and brutal ways to scramble and kick down the opposing team members in the case of the possibility of touching the ball.
The evaluation team of the Chinese Football Association unanimously agreed that the action of Wei Shihao, the No. 7 player of the Chengdu Rongcheng team, belonged to the fact that the ball had left the scope of contention, and in the absence of the possibility of touching the ball, he deliberately kicked the opposing player for the purpose of touching the ball.
The biggest concern for the media and Chinese fans is: why did Wei Shihao receive an additional punishment of a four-game suspension, but Cressan did not?
For this situation, the Chinese Football Association also made a special explanation. In the explanation, the Chinese Football Association attributed the reason for not chasing Cressan to the referee of the match who did not submit a report of the violation of discipline after the game, thus initiating the disciplinary procedure. After the game when Wei Shihao received a direct red card, the referee on duty submitted a report on violations of discipline and regulations to the Chinese Football Association, which made the Chinese Football Association start the procedure for initiating disciplinary punishment for Wei Shihao's violent behavior, and finally according to the relevant disciplinary guidelines, Wei Shihao was suspended for 4 games and fined 40,000 yuan.
In the official announcement on the review of Wei Shihao's punishment incident, the Chinese Football Association finally stated that the Chinese Football Association will continue to uphold the principles of fairness, justice and openness, actively accept the feedback and appeal opinions of the club, and review the key precedents and typical precedents with high social attention and conducive to the unification of the penalty scale, and announce the results of the review to the public, and make internal penalties for relevant wrongful and omitted referees.
First of all, in terms of attitude, the Chinese Football Association can make relevant comments and explanations in the case of Wei Shihao's public questioning of the penalty result, which can be regarded as a great progress in the work of the Chinese Football Association, because in the past, if there was a situation where domestic players personally questioned the penalty result, the Chinese Football Association often turned a deaf ear.
However, in terms of professional business ability, the Chinese Football Association still has a lot of room for improvement, especially this public comment on the Wei Shihao incident, the result is obviously difficult to convince the public. The review team of the Chinese Football Association believes that Cressan may touch the ball, which is a serious foul; It is considered that Wei Shihao did not have the possibility of touching the ball, which is a violent act. This explanation is untenable from a professional point of view, because from the scene footage, we can clearly see that Cressan and Wei Shihao are both players who use excessive force to kick at the opponent without the possibility of touching the ball behind them, which is a clear venting malicious foul, and the actions of these two are essentially the same.
However, the Chinese Football Association may consider that because Cressan did not receive additional punishments, and Wei Shihao received additional punishments, there is no way to level out a bowl of water now, so it must find a way to justify itself, so there will be different characterizations of so-called serious fouls and violent acts, but such a characterization is obviously a bit ridiculous.