At the beginning of 2023, Wuhan Zall, one of the private enterprises that has been sticking to Chinese football for the longest time, issued a statement that it will no longer register to participate in the future Chinese professional football league. Subsequently, Zall boss Yan Zhi sent a long message to say goodbye.
However, no one knows that it was this incident that became the fuse for the subsequent anti-crime in Chinese football.
In Yan Zhi's farewell, there is a passage that reads wonderingly, "In addition to the coaches and players who have salary disputes, we will settle the salaries of coaches, players and staff." ”
Now people know that when Yan Zhi wrote the word "controversy", all that flashed was the figure of the Liaoning person. This hero, who led Wuhan to the supermajor, became one of the causes of death for the team's disappearance in the end.
Wuhan is suspicious
Late at night in February 2020, Li Tie posted on his personal social platform when he was the head coach of the national football team, and said that he would resign from all his positions in Wuhan Zall and concentrate on the work of the head coach of the national team.
However, in fact, until he resigned as the head coach of the national team, Li Tie continued to receive a salary of 30 million yuan after tax from Wuhan Zall for a year.
At the end of 2021, Du Liyan, the former translator of the Dalian team, broke the news that during the coaching of the Wuhan team, the introduction of the team's internal reinforcement was completely decided by Li Tie, and Jose basically had to go to meetings with Li Tie every day and listen to his opinions.
Under the operation of Li Tie, the Wuhan team spent 6 million euros in transfer fees and 4 million euros in annual salary to introduce Baptistang in order to allow Wu Lei to transfer to Espanyol, which was considered by the outside world to be a letter of nomination handed by Li Tie to Chen Xuyuan, then chairman of the Football Association.
By 2022, there was a large-scale wage arrears within the Wuhan Zall team, resulting in fines and league points deductions. During the summer transfer period, the team was penalized by a ban on bringing in new players.
Faced with tremendous pressure, the team finally decided to withdraw from the competition. Under the mediation of the Hubei Provincial Sports Bureau, Wuhan Zall was able to return to the league and stumble through the whole season.
After the season, Li Tie was reported and subsequently placed in custody for investigation. Within a month, Wuhan Zall team executives, members of Li Tie's coaching staff, and Wuhan Football Association became the targets of the investigation.
Later, the fire burned Li Tiejing's illegal behavior when he was the head coach of the national team, and Chen Yongliang and Liu Yi were investigated.
The incident has developed to this point, and there is a very interesting situation, that is, Li Tie's case can be quickly connected with the last football gambling and anti-crime investigation.
Head coach of the national team
In August 2015, Li Tie coached Hebei Huaxia Happiness.
At that time, there were only nine games left in the season, and Huaxia Happiness was only ranked sixth, and the prospect of surpassing was not optimistic. After Li Tie took office, he played a magical wave of "eight consecutive wins", which made the team finally surpass the success by one point.
In 2017, Li Tie began to coach Wuhan Zall and took the initiative to sell match-fixing to the team, and finally Wuhan Zall successfully surpassed in three rounds ahead of schedule in 2018.
In August 2019, due to Lippi's refusal to lead the team to the East Asian Cup, the Chinese Football Association planned to form a selection team to participate in the team, and at the same time recruit the head coach of the team
Li Tie lobbied Wuhan Zall to take out 2 million to help him bribe Chen Xuyuan, and paid a bribe of 1 million to Liu Yi, then secretary general of the Football Association, out of his own pocket.
In January 2020, Li Tie became the head coach of the national football team as he wished. On the second day of his election, he flew to Wuhan to sign a "contract" with Zall for a total of 60 million, and brought Dong Chunyu, Li Xing, Liu Yun and tomorrow into the national team.
I know the ability of our players, and none of them can get in," Tian Xudong, the former chairman of Wuhan Zall Club, said later.
Many people know that the miracle of Li Tie leading the national team to the World Cup is impossible to happen, and the only people who have hope for it are fans who are not familiar with the world.
For a local Chinese coach, the head coach of the national team is undoubtedly the highest pursuit of his career", Gao Hongbo left this reason when he talked about his reasons for running for the head coach of the national team in 2016.
But it's a pity that not everyone is Gao Hongbo, and for most people who come to the national team, many are originally business, and feelings are too much of an obstacle.
Will Chinese football be good?
From hating match-fixing to leading the team to play match-fixing, from "the hopeful star of Chinese football" to "the sinner of Chinese football", Li Tie used his football career to make a "perfect" typical teaching material of football corruption.
From an upright kicker to a partner of corrupt elements, Li Tie is both a victim and a victim.
Li Tie was one of the first teenagers to study in Brazil, and that group of football people has since been branded as the "Jianlibao team". Their style of play is impactful and highly anticipated when they return home.
Li Tie first appeared on the highest stage of Chinese football in 1997 as one of the members of the "Four Little Swans" to help the national team. At that time, compared with Sui Dongliang, Zhang Xiaorui, and Li Jinyu, who were also members of the "Four Little Swans", Li Tie was inconspicuous.
His skills are rough at his feet and his shooting is outrageous, but he has gained a firm foothold in the national football team with "can't run", and then went to study in the Premier League and participate in the South Korea-Japan World Cup. His development height is unattainable by other peers.
But during his rising period, Chinese football is not a pure land, for example, Gao Zhongxun shouted bitterly that "Chinese football is out of play". That year, we had a "strongest football team in history" and a Chinese women's football team that could be called the "uncrowned king".
But in the end, all of this will disappear, and it is not enough to say "because of corruption".
Li Tie's ascension process seems to have been unusually promoted, but it is precisely by taking advantage of the space formed by the "discretion" of managers to spend money to open the way.
When Chen Xuyuan said "apologize", in these years, many football clubs have died, a generation of football talent is being destroyed, and the dreams of a group of fans are constantly shattered.
The way out for Chinese football is in the first place, the overall plan for the reform and development of Chinese football has been launched for nearly nine years, and everyone understands the reason, but this era is no longer pure. Whether Chinese football will be good, no one can answer now.