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On January 9, the fourth episode of the four-episode TV feature film "Continue to Make Efforts and Promote in Depth" jointly produced by the Propaganda Department of the ** Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission and ** Radio and Television Station was broadcast on CCTV.
The feature film exposes the details of a series of corruption cases in football.
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, Chen Xuyuan, former chairman of the Chinese Football Association, and Li Tie, former head coach of the Chinese national men's football team, appeared on the scene.
"It's like a convention to dredge things up by sending money and goods."
What happened to Chinese football?This is a question that countless fans have asked for years.
Starting from the end of 2022, the ** Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission, together with the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group of the State General Administration of Sports and the Hubei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, will adopt 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.
* Yan Weiyao, director of the Second Supervision and Inspection Office of the Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission, said: "There has been systematic and collapsed corruption in the field of football, and the discipline inspection and supervision organs have struck hard, and they dare not, cannot, and do not want to advance as a whole, and the punishment is unprecedented. ”
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 10 high-level and middle-level cadres of the Chinese Football Association were reviewed and investigated, including: Du Zhaocai, former deputy director of the State General Administration of Sports and former secretary of the Party Committee of the Chinese Football Association, and Chen Xuyuan, former chairman of the Chinese Football Association. The discipline inspection and supervision organs will also work with the public security organs to investigate dozens of people involved in the case, covering coaches, players, referees, club executives, agents and other aspects. With the comprehensive and in-depth investigation of a series of cases, the deep-seated problems in the field of football have gradually emerged.
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, said: "It seems to have formed a bit of a routine in this regard by often sending money and goods to dredge things. ”
Chen Xuyuan, former chairman of the Chinese Football Association, said: "Corruption in Chinese football is not in one aspect, it is all-encompassing. ”
Li Tie, the former head coach of the Chinese national men's football team, said: "Some things are taken for granted in the football circle, but now it seems that many things are illegal and criminal. ”
A ball game cost 14 million to dredge up "match-fixing".
The feature film mentions that Li Tie is the first person to be subject to supervision and investigation and detention, and it has been proved that the choice of this entry point is very accurate, and he is used as a breakthrough to bring out a number of suspected violations of discipline and law from the league to the national team, from the club to the Football Association, as well as various shady scenes and system loopholes.
Luo Yu, a staff member of the Hubei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, said: "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 has 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: "When I was a player, I hated people who played match-fixing, but because I knew that these might help our team increase our chances and become the head coach of a team for the first time, I also had the mentality of wanting to prove myself. ”
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".
After Li Tie took office, he played a magical "eight consecutive wins" 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 "super-miracle" is completely manipulated behind the back by the hand of money. For example, in the last game of the season, Huaxia Fortune must win or draw to ensure that it can surpass, and the club has spent a lot of money on it.
Meng Jing, the former chairman of Hebei Huaxia Happiness Club, said: "In the last game, we spent about 14 million yuan, and we greeted the Shenzhen team club, the head coach and the players. ”
The official level of Shenzhen Yuheng Club accepted a huge amount of money from Huaxia Happiness and agreed to "release water". At the same time, in order to provide multiple insurances, Li Tie's coaching team is responsible for directly buying 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 actually surpass it (Shenzhen Yuheng), that is, we can win by playing normally, but we want to get some ways to win 100%, and everyone just 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.
Li Fei said: "Actually, I didn't look for anyone, because at that time, whether it was the right time and place, they had the advantage, we were away, and we had just finished the relegation, and our hearts were already scattered, so I 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.
Li Tie: "In order to achieve results, find referees to do work, buy other players, coaches, and some clubs find clubs to find clubs, which has become a habit, and even a little bit of dependence later." ”
Li Tie tasted the "sweetness" of match-fixing at Huaxia Happiness Club, and when he was hired as the head coach of Wuhan Zall Club in 2017, he began to take the initiative to promote match-fixing to the club.
Tian Xudong, the former chairman of Wuhan Zall Club, said: "When I first came into contact with match-fixing, you might not think that it was Li Tie who came to me, so I said, as if this is not 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.
Chen Xuyuan:
"To grasp this atmosphere, isn't it to catch yourself?"
An important reason for the continuous growth and spread of unhealthy trends in football is that the Chinese Football Association, which should have been responsible for supervision, has had many cadres who have been unable to resist themselves for many years, and have been coerced into the club's capital game.
Chen Xuyuan said: "I also received money from the club, so I won't catch this kind of atmosphere, because if you go to catch this atmosphere, isn't it that you yourself are catching yourself, so in fact, this phenomenon should basically be laissez-faire." ”
Chen Xuyuan was elected as the sixth chairman of the Chinese Football Association at the Xianghe National Football Training Base in Hebei Province on August 22, 2019. 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.
Chen Xuyuan recalled: "(They) came to my room, put the backpack on my sofa, and said Chairman Chen, congratulations, congratulations, I hope to take care of you, and then I said something, he said the old rules, we are all like this." ”
In the past few years, Chen Xuyuan has received tens of millions of yuan from many clubs.
Through their case analysis, the task force 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".
Chen Xuyuan said: "Fans can tolerate the backwardness of Chinese football, but they cannot forgive corruption. As the president of the Football Association, I am mainly responsible, I want to deeply apologize to the fans across the country, I was wrong, I really think I was wrong, I regret myself very much, there is no regret medicine to buy, if there is regret medicine to buy, I am willing to buy it back with my life, I will not do this kind of thing again. ”
In front of the camera, Chen Xuyuan shed tears.
Du Zhaocai:
Change the investigation of match-fixing to "research" to be perfunctory
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" and "relying on football to eat football", and accepted tens of millions of yuan in property.
Du Zhaocai said: "I have not been a 'goalkeeper' in the anti-corruption struggle of Chinese football, and in the 'hunting' of the interests of the club owners, it is actually a subjective reason, and it has not been strictly controlled, and some have gone 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 General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China asked Du Zhaocai to take the lead in investigating and dealing with it, but Du Zhaocai secretly changed the concept and used the so-called "research" to perfunctory.
* Cui Haifei, a second-level inspector of the 16th Review and Investigation Office of the Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission, said: "The investigation was changed to research, and no problems were found, and no one was dealt with, but only a research 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. ”
The party and the state attach great importance to sports and pay great attention to the reform and development of Chinese football, and in 2015, the General Office issued the "Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Chinese Football".
Du Zhaocai and Chen Xuyuan, as the heads of the Football Association, should have implemented the best decision-making and deployment, and took the promotion of reform as the first priority, however, they all felt that the reform was difficult and slow.
Chen Xuyuan said: "After reading the reform and development plan, I am afraid of difficulties, and I feel that there are many things that I can't do when the Football Association is in office. In fact, it is also a matter of political performance, I want to be in my office, the national team can participate in the World Cup, doesn't that prove that Chen Xuyuan is very capable. ”
Li Tie bribed 3 million to become the head coach of the national team
At that time, there was another person who also wanted to gamble 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 said: "Because I want 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 can help me say good things and recommend me." ”
On the one hand, Li Tie lobbied the Zall Club to pay for him to do the work, saying that if he could "get on top", 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 said: "The club sent me money and recommended it to me, and 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, said: "(Li Tie) asked me to chat and talk 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 national football selection team as he wished, and after Lippi resigned, he was immediately appointed as the head coach of the men's national football team. The day after the position was confirmed, Li Tie flew to Wuhan to negotiate a deal with Zall Club.
Tian Xudong, the former chairman of Wuhan Zall Club, said: "In fact, it is an exchange of interests, and the conversation is very naked, which players I bring in, which player may give you playing time, and it will definitely have a good relationship at the level of the Football Association to help you provide some resources." He gave us so many very ** 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 only used as 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 said: "When I saw the national team list that day, my face was red, what do I mean, I know the ability of our players, I can't get in, I can't get in." ”
The feature film said that 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.
Li Tie was appointed as the head coach of the men's national football team from January 2, 2020 to December 3, 2021, when he was "dismissed" amid the scolding of fans.
Li Tie said: "I regret it very much. It is still necessary to be down-to-earth, but also to take the right path, not to rush for quick success, and not to do everything possible to take shortcuts. ”
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