On February 15 last year, the day after Chen Xuyuan was officially announced, Du Zhaocai made it clear that he would "resolutely support the review and investigation of Chen Xuyuan by the discipline inspection and supervision organs" when he presided over the enlarged meeting of the party committee within the Football Association! In mid-March last year, Du Zhaocai criticized the actions of Chen Xuyuan and other illegal and criminal elements in an internal meeting, and asked all staff of the Football Association to learn from the pain, learn from the case, and promote reform with the case.
However, after criticizing Chen Xuyuan for half a month, Du Zhaocai was also arrested; When the official has already characterized him as "relying on football to eat football", "seriously damaging the political ecology of the football field", and "violating the spirit of the ** Eight Points". He is not only the highest-level to be arrested in the two football anti-corruption, but his problem will also be the most serious!
Unlike Chen Xuyuan, a layman who knew almost nothing about sports before coming to the Football Association, Du Zhaocai is the backbone of the business who grew up from the sports system.
He has experience as an ice hockey player, but after retiring, he entered the Shenyang Institute of Physical Education to study football.
After graduating from Shenyang Institute of Physical Education, Du Zhaocai entered the Liaoning Sports Commission, and since then he has met his leader in the sports systemCui Dalin!
When Du Zhaocai was only a grassroots employee of the Liaoning Sports Commission, Cui Dalin was already the deputy director of the Sports Commission. During the period when Cui Dalin became the deputy director and director of the Liaoning Provincial Sports Bureau, Du Zhaocai was successively promoted to vice president and principal of the Liaoning Provincial Military Sports and Navigation Sports School, and deputy director of the Liaoning Provincial Sports Bureau.
When Cui Dalin was transferred to Beijing to be in charge of the Hockey Baseball and Softball Sports Management Center, he transferred Du Zhaocai to the National Hockey and Softball Sports Management Center as deputy director during the Beijing Olympic cycle. After the Beijing Olympics ended, the project centers were reshuffled, and after the baseball was under the management of Cai Zhenhua, Du Zhaocai was transferred to the track and field management center managed by Cui Dalin at the beginning of 09.
From Du Zhaocai's participation in work in 1986 to Cui Dalin's retirement in 2010, Du Zhaocai was promoted by Cui Dalin many times in the sports system. So why is Du Zhaocai very appreciated by Cui Dalin? Du Zhaocai is indeed a capable business backbone.
When Du Zhaocai was in charge of hockey, the Chinese women's hockey team won the runner-up in the Beijing Olympics for the first time.
When Du Zhaocai was in charge of track and field, in the 12th London Olympics, the Chinese track and field team won 1 gold and 5 bronzes, setting a new medal record in previous competitions.
At the World Championships held at home in 15 years, the Chinese track and field team won 1 gold, 8 silver and 1 bronze, setting a new medal record in the history of Chinese track and field. Among them, the men's 4x100m relay team won the silver medal and set a new Asian record.
In the 16 Rio Olympics, the Chinese track and field team won 2 golds, 2 silvers and 2 bronzes; Not only ranked fourth in the medal table of track and field events, but also made historic breakthroughs in many individual sports results.
Because of his outstanding contributions in the fields of hockey and track and field, Du Zhaocai was successively promoted to the assistant director of the State General Administration of Sports and the deputy director of the State General Administration of Sports, which also gave him the opportunity to replace Cai Zhenhua to take over the Football Association.
Like any leader parachuted into the Football Association, Du Zhaocai, who has just arrived, also wants to make a difference. Not only did he bring a group of people from track and field to the Football Association, but his original plan was to engage in track and field football in the same way.
When Du Zhaocai was engaged in track and field, he took measures such as hiring excellent foreign teachers and strengthening international exchanges. After he took office at the Football Association, he quickly promoted all national brands at all levels of men's football to hire foreign coaches and actively expanded football diplomacy. Hiddink, Jankovic, and Antonio were all invited to China by Du Zhaocai. Du Zhaocai has also served as a member of the FIFA Council, the chairman of the AFC referee committee, and the chairman of the East Asian Football Confederation. In addition, Du Zhaocai also set up a "football track and field mixed material selection base" with ingenuity.
However, on the surface, he used track and field to engage in football, and behind the scenes, he also brought the corruption problems that existed in the track and field period to football.
When Du Zhaocai first arrived at the field management center in 09, there were about 10 marathons held in China every year. By the year before Du Zhaocai left the Athletics Association, 328 marathons were held in China. In 2017, when Du Zhaocai left the Athletics Association, 1,102 large-scale events were held across the country (more than 800 people in road running events and more than 300 people in cross-country running events).
Marathons and various track and field events are being held more and more, setting off a boom in China; As the promoter of the marathon road running industry, Du Zhaocai was "hunted" by the enterprise very early.
Among them, Chang Olympic Sports (now renamed Youmai Sports), the major shareholder of Kunshan Club in the future, started with marathons back then, and it was also through marathons that he established close ties with Du Zhaocai. Changao Sports switched from marathon to football, which also happened after Du Zhaocai went to the Football Association; Their first football tournament was in October 2017, when Madaloni led the U23 national team to play two international friendlies in Zhenjiang and Jiangyin. Changao Sports has changed from an event operating company to a major shareholder of Kunshan Club, behind taking away the club's operating rightsThe female boss of Changao Sports once called Du Zhaocai "Uncle Du" in public! And this sentence "Uncle Du" not only sparked all kinds of speculation, but also the weight it can play in the Chinese sports circle is also immeasurable.
If the performance in the track and field association is more outstanding, it can cover up Du Zhaocai's "corruption" to a certain extent. Then when it comes to the Football Association, which has poor results and has been under a magnifying glass, Du Zhaocai's operation will naturally be constantly magnified. For example, after he took office, the first thing he did was to nearly double the number of departments, claiming to make the work of the Football Association "flattened", "refined", "professionalized" and "scientific". However, the number one position of more than ten departments was added at one time, and it was once questioned that it had become a means for Du Zhaocai to "make profits".
When Chen Xuyuan took office, 11 departments were reduced at one time, which can also highlight the open and secret struggle between Du Zhaocai and Chen Xuyuan in the Football Association.
However, during Du Zhaocai's tenure in the Football Association, it was not only Chen Xuyuan who fought with him? The long-term internal friction between different forces caused each other to tear down each other, resulting in twice the result with half the effort, which once made Du Zhaocai and Chen Xuyuan frustrated! It's just that the difference is that Chen Xuyuan's heart is "more frustrated and braver", and he wants to do another term before he is arrested; But Du Zhaocai actually wanted to leave a long time ago, but when he couldn't go, Du Zhaocai once turned his focus to the Asian Cup and the Club World Cup.
For the 2023 Asian Cup, Du Zhaocai specially approved the establishment of the Asian Cup Organizing Committee, which is a separate "yamen", and Du Zhaocai has absolute control, but in the end, the Asian Cup Organizing Committee has also become a "means" for Du Zhaocai to collect money!
The controversy caused by the abandonment of hosting the Asian Cup, Du Zhaocai can be regarded as a "backstabber" at best, because such a major decision is not something that the sports system can decide at all. However, the host cities of the Asian Cup have paid high hosting fees, but this part of the fees has not been refunded in full, and the Asian Cup Organizing Committee has not been able to give a complete bill, which has caused dissatisfaction with the host city and caused a lot of conjecture.
Where did these "missing" accounts go? The secret is hidden in the turf and other supporting facilities of the course.
FIFA's turf requirements for the World Cup are only natural grass. However, Du Zhaocai demanded that all Asian Cup stadiums should use anchor mixed grass that is much higher than natural grass, and this grass currently has only two sets of equipment in China to pave! Therefore, during the bidding process, representatives of the host city raised objections!
What is the cost of laying a piece of land? Previously, when the anchored mixed grass football field was laid at the Shenzu Lihu base, the cost price was about 7 million, and the first time that foreign companies came to China to lay a field was about 10 million! But in the end, the Asian Cup Organizing Committee's bidding was much higher than these two prices. In addition, the anchoring mixed grass also needs special equipment to supplement the light, not only the equipment has to spend a lot of money to introduce and rent, but the photoelectric cost will cost tens of millions a year.
For the bidding of turf and other stadium supporting facilities, companies that do not win the bid will feel that they have been tricked. The cities that spend money don't need to spend so much money on turf and so on to host an Asian Cup. However, after spending **, the quality of the turf was not ideal, which caused various conjectures before Du Zhaocai was arrested. And this bid-winning company, which caused public anger, is related to Du Zhaocai, but he hides it deeply.
However, Du Zhaocai, who is still cautious in the Asian Cup stadium facilities, does not seem to be so cautious in matters related to "color". Back then, Du Zhaocai brought a number of ** from the Athletics Association to the Football Association, including his close "female friends". A few years ago, there were rumors in the rivers and lakes that more than one club directly "publicized" into the room in order to get Du Zhaocai.
The first three words of WeChat name are "contented", which was originally Du Zhaocai's expectation for life. But how ironic is the "contented person" and Du Zhaocai's current situation!
In six years, Du Zhaocai left Chinese football with a bad ending. In the past, the business backbone of the "god" in the track and field association has now become a prisoner because of football problems, which has caused embarrassment! But when he started corruption at the "highlight", and then entered the "big dye vat" of Chinese football, his disgrace and imprisonment may have been doomed!
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