There is another blockbuster news in Chinese football, the Intermediate People's Court of Huangshi City, Hubei Province has publicly tried the case of Chen Xuyuan, the former chairman of the Chinese Football Association, and the details of Chen Xuyuan's violations and crimes have also been in front of the public for the first time!
In the anti-corruption documentary broadcast by CCTV before, some of Chen Xuyuan's crimes have actually been **. On the night before he took office, some personnel of the local football association offered him bribes, and the amount of a single transaction exceeded 300,000 yuan. Subsequently, in order to be elected as the coach of the national football team, Li Tie instructed Wuhan Zall Club to pay a bribe of 2 million yuan to Chen Xuyuan. But how much money the former chairman of the Chinese Football Association has made from beginning to end is still a mystery.
Finally, not long ago, the mystery was finally revealed! According to the prosecution of the Intermediate People's Court of Huangshi City, Hubei Province, in fact, as early as 2010, when he was the president and chairman of Shanghai International Port Co., Ltd., Chen Xuyuan had already begun to take advantage of his position. In the 13 years from 2010 to 2023, Chen Xuyuan illegally accepted other people's property, equivalent to 81.03 million yuan, if the average is per day, then Chen Xuyuan's daily average ** amount exceeds 170,000 yuan!
There is no doubt that the amount of money involved in Chen Xuyuan's case must be "a particularly huge amount", and according to the relevant laws and regulations, he will be sentenced to more than ten years in prison, life imprisonment or even the death penalty, and a fine or confiscation of property! But considering that Chen Xuyuan is only an economic crime, he should not be sentenced to life imprisonment or death, but because the amount is too large, his starting sentence may be more than 15 years. Chen Xuyuan, who was born in July 1956, is about to turn 68 years old, and if he is sentenced to more than 15 years in prison, he will most likely die in prison, which can be regarded as paying the due price for his illegal acts.
And Chen Xuyuan's sentence will also create a new record high in the anti-corruption and anti-crime campaign in Chinese football without any suspense. As early as 2010, there was also a large-scale corruption within the Chinese Football Association, when the vice chairman of the Football Association Nan Yong, Xie Yalong, and Yang Yimin, director of the league department, were finally imprisoned. However, Xie Yalong, who had the highest amount of money involved at that time, was only 1.72 million yuan, which was a drop in the bucket compared with Chen Xuyuan!
I hope that Chen Xuyuan's experience can alert the latecomers of the Football Association, and I also hope that Chinese football can be on the right path from now on and return to the top ranks in Asia!