At 20:00 on the evening of January 9, CCTV's annual anti-corruption feature film "Continue to Make Efforts to Promote in Depth" broadcast the fourth episode - "Promoting the "Three Non-Corruptions" in One Piece". This episode involves Du Zhaocai, former deputy director of the General Administration of Sports of China, Chen Xuyuan, former chairman of the Football Association, and Li Tie, former head coach of the Chinese men's football team.
According to the program: At that time, there was another person who also wanted to bet 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: Because I really want to be the head coach of the national team, 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 could help me say good things and recommend me.
Li Tie's idea of bribing is the same as playing match-fixing, and he feels that he needs multiple insurances. On the one hand, he 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: 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) :(Li Tie) asked me to chat 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: 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 at the level of the Football Association, it will definitely have a good relationship and help you provide some resources. He gave us so many very ** chips and asked us for money.