CCTV broadcast the last episode of the anti-corruption special program "Continue to Promote in Depth" last night (9th), titled "Promoting Three Non-Corruption in One Piece", revealing the corruption problem in mainland football. Former national football coach Li Tie, who was prosecuted last year, admitted to leading two Chinese league teams, Hebei Huaxia and Wuhan Zall, to be promoted to the Chinese Super League because of the fake wave. In addition, he paid bribes totaling 3 million yuan (the same below) to Chen Xuyuan, then chairman of the Chinese Football Association, and Liu Yi, then secretary general of the Chinese Football Association, to become the coach of the national football team.
Li Tie said: When I was a player, what I hated the most was people who played match-fixing. But because I know that this will probably help us increase our chances of becoming a manager for the first time in my own right, I have the mentality of wanting to prove myself. When he was the coach of Hebei Huaxia in 2015, he was asked by the club to spend a lot of money to buy opponents with connections in order to improve the team's ranking, and the club finally played a wave of 8 consecutive wins to be promoted to the Chinese Super League. Meng Jing, the former chairman of the club, confessed that he spent 14 million yuan to bribe the head coach and players of Shenzhen Yuheng in the last game alone. After Li Tie tasted the sweetness for the first time, when he became the coach of Wuhan Zall in 2017, he took the initiative to sell and buy opponents to the senior management of the club, and finally promoted to the Chinese Super League three rounds ahead of schedule that season.
The feature film also revealed that Li Tie successfully became the coach of the national football team in 2020 because he asked Wuhan Zall to pay 2 million yuan to Chen Xuyuan, the then chairman of the Chinese Football Association, and sent 1 million yuan to Liu Yi, the then secretary general of the Football Association, out of his own pocket. In order to repay Wuhan Zall, Li Tie later signed a so-called contract with Wuhan Zall for an amount of 60 million yuan, and selected four players from Wuhan Zall into the national team squad, but the chairman of Wuhan Zall at that time did not think that the ability of the four players could play for the national football team. Li Tie confessed in front of the camera, saying that he regretted it very much, and he should take the right path steadfastly, not rush for quick success, and not try every means to take shortcuts.
Another person who was investigated, Chen Xuyuan, the former chairman of the Chinese Football Association who was indicted in September last year, revealed that the night before he was elected in 2019, two heads of local football associations knocked on his door and sent 300,000 yuan each to ask him to take more care. Over the years, he has received tens of millions of dollars from many clubs.
Chen Xuyuan said that the corruption of Chinese football is not in one aspect, it is all-round, fans can tolerate the backwardness of Chinese football, but can not forgive corruption, as the chairman of the Football Association, he has the main responsibility, and wants to apologize and apologize to the fans across the country;He also said that if he regrets the medicine, he is willing to buy the medicine back with his life, and he will not do these things again.