The most hated is to play match-fixing to actively promote match-fixing
Li Tie led the team to surpass twice, relying on match-fixing
The reason why Li Tie was able to become the head coach of the national team is because he has led two Chinese League A teams to successfully enter the Chinese Super League, which has played a very good role in his industry statusBut the truth is that behind this is a lot of match-fixing.
In August 2015, Li Tie joined Hebei Huaxia Happiness Club as the 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 hoped that he would use his connections to buy his opponents.
Li Tie:The thing I hated most as a player was match-fixing, but I knew it might help our team to have a better chance of overtaking. It was the first time I became the head coach of the team on my own, and I really wanted to prove myself.
After Li Tie took office, he played a magical eight-game winning streak 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 miracle of rushing over is completely manipulated behind the back by the hand of money. For example, in the last game of the season, China Fortune must win or draw to ensure that it can surpassThe club spent $14 million on it. The official level of Shenzhen Yuheng Club accepted a huge amount of money from Huaxia Happiness and agreed to "release water".
In order to ensure multiple insurances, Li Tie's coaching team is responsible for buying opposing players directly from the individual level. Li Tie instructed assistant coach Zheng Bin to contact Li Fei, the main defender of the Shenzhen team.
Zheng Bin:Our strength should surpass that of Shenzhen Yuheng, and we can win by playing normally, but we want to ensure 100% win in this way.
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 survey,No one knew that the 6 million yuan was actually swallowed by Li Fei himself.
Li Fei:In fact, I didn't look for anyone, because at that time, whether it was the right time, the right place, and the right people, Huaxia had the advantage. We were away at the time, and we had just finished the relegation, and our hearts were already scattered. Just thinking about the last game, everyone will not get hurt, and we will have a holiday after the game.
As Li Fei judged, his interception of the 6 million yuan did not affect Huaxia Happiness and finally won 2-0.
Li Tie:Achieved "success" in this improper way, and made himself more and more eager for quick success. In order to achieve results, it has become a habit to find referees to do work and buy opposing players and coaches.
Li Tie tasted the sweetness of match-fixing at Huaxia Happiness Club, and in 2017, when he was hired as the head coach of Wuhan Zall Club, he began to take the initiative to promote match-fixing to the club. 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.
The night before he was elected president of the Chinese Football Association
The local person in charge each sent 300,000 yuan to "worship the pier".
An important reason for the continuous growth and spread of unhealthy trends in football is that the Chinese Football Association, which should have taken on the responsibility of supervision, has many cadres who have been unable to resist themselves for many years, and have been coerced into the club's capital game.
On August 22, 2019, Chen Xuyuan was elected as the sixth president of the Chinese Football Association. 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.
Before Chen Xuyuan took office, he felt the huge benefits hidden in this circle, and then he was willing to fall into it. In the past few years, he has received tens of millions of yuan from many clubs. The heads of many departments of the Football Association also crossed the sea to show their powers.
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:If I also collect money from the club, I won't catch this kind of atmosphere, so isn't that my own arrest? So this phenomenon is basically laissez-faire.
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, relying on football to eat football, accepting tens of millions of yuan in property, and letting the chaos in the football world go unchecked.
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. However, Du Zhaocai secretly changed his concept and used the so-called research to be perfunctory, did not find any problems, and did not deal with anyone, but just made a research report.
Du Zhaocai:I didn't play a good role as the "goalkeeper" of the anti-corruption struggle in Chinese football, and I went with the flow in the hunt for the interests of the club owner.
Offered a bribe of 3 million yuan to "get on top".
The head coach of the national football team collects money to let people enter the national team
In 2015, the General Office issued the "Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Chinese Football", and Du Zhaocai and Chen Xuyuan, as the heads of the Football Association, should have implemented the decision-making and deployment of the Football Association and took the promotion of reform as the first priority. However, they all feel that the reform is difficult and slow to produce results, and instead of spending energy to gnaw this hard bone, it is better to reap some benefits for themselves while betting on the hope of "political achievements" in the World Cup.
At that time, Li Tie also wanted to bet on the World Cup. He felt that the false record achieved by match-fixing had accumulated capital for him to seek the position of head coach of the national team. 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, Li Tie felt that the opportunity had come.
Li Tie:Because I wanted 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 could help me say good things and recommend me.
Li Tie's idea of bribing is the same as playing match-fixing. On the one hand, he lobbied the Zall Club to pay for him to do the work, saying that if he could get on the throne, he would 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.
Liu Yi:Li Tie asked me to chat about the construction of the national team, and took the opportunity to give me money, hoping to support me more. I said no problem, I'll definitely support you.
Subsequently, Li Tie became the head coach of the men's football national selection team as he wished. Lippi resigned, and he was immediately appointed head coach of the men's national team. The day after the position was confirmed, Li Tie flew to Wuhan to negotiate a deal with Zall Club.
Eventually,Li Tie signed the so-called contract with Zall Club for a total amount of 60 million yuan, which was actually to cover up the essence of the power-for-money transaction. Four players from the Zall team were then selected for the national team squad.
Tian Xudong, former chairman of Wuhan Zall Club:When I saw the list of the national team, 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 selection of coaches and players is used as a weight for personal gain, and it is inevitable that they will not produce results. When fans were still looking forward to Li Tie leading 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 national football team from January 2, 2020 to December 3, 2021, when he was scolded by fans. The result of quick success is that it rises quickly and falls quickly.
Today, Hebei Huaxia Happiness and Wuhan Zall Club have been dissolved. Du Zhaocai and Chen Xuyuan also failed to get the "political achievements" they wanted, but both fell off. It's the same old saying: football is round, and no amount of power and money can shape it arbitrarily.
Li Tie:I regret it very much, but I still have to be down-to-earth, but also to take the right path, don't rush for quick success, and don't try everything to take shortcuts.
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Editor: Jiang Ping.