Chinanews.com, Beijing, February 15th (Reporter Bian Liqun) "I will work diligently and firmly establish a correct view of political achievements, 'success does not have to be mine, success must be mine', not only grasping the present, but also focusing on the long-term, and being down-to-earth Solidly lay a solid foundation for the development of Chinese football, act honestly in accordance with the laws of football development, and earnestly do every job in football development."
This is the generous speech of Chen Xuyuan as the chairman of the Chinese Football Association in August 2019.
Data map: Chen Xuyuan was elected as the new chairman of the Chinese Football Association at the 11th Football Congress.
Image source: Chinese Football Association
As the first full-time chairman of the Football Association, he has carried a lot of expectations and hopes.
But there was no time for the "long-term". After only three and a half years, before even completing one term of office, Chen Xuyuan was associated with the words "suspected of serious violations of discipline and law" and "investigated", and quickly reached the top of the major media and media outlets. network platform.
These words are all too familiar these days.
From Li Tie, the former coach of the National Football Association, to Liu Yi, the former secretary-general of the Chinese Football Association, Chen Yongliang, the executive deputy secretary-general, and then to the investigation of the chairman of the Chinese Football Association Chen Xuyuan, it took only 80 days.
Perhaps, these are just commas in the "hurricane" process of Chinese football.
The comma was left 10 or 20 years ago, but it was mistaken for a period at the time.
Or to be more precise, not many people can think of the gap between the two commas, which is only more than 10 years apart.
Data map: Chen Xuyuan (left), chairman of the Chinese Football Association, and Liu Yi (right), secretary general, have both been investigated.
Image source: Chinese Football Association
reincarnation
"According to the statistics of the vote counters, there were 47 votes in favor, 0 votes against, and 0 abstentions. The election results have been announced."
"According to the articles of association of the association, Comrade Chen Xuyuan won the approval of more than half of the participating members and was successfully elected as the 11th chairman of the Chinese Football Association."
Accompanied by Lippi who "entered the palace for the second time" and the national football team that once again launched an impact on the World Cup, Chen Xuyuan became another head of Chinese football.
Data map: Chen Xuyuan took office as the chairman of the Chinese Football Association.
Image source: Chinese Football Association
As the first chairman of the Chinese Football Association from a non-sports management system in the history of the Chinese Football Association, the "different" Chen Xuyuan has carried a lot of expectations.
During his 46 years in SIPG, he started as a dock worker and became a group executive step by step.
Many people hope that he can steer the lost ship of Chinese football and bring something different.
However, with the top 12 stage of the World Preliminaries, the national football coach Li Tie dismissed get out of get out of class due to off-field turmoil, and then the national football plummeted and missed the World Cup again, starting another cycle.
Chen Xuyuan was caught in the same cycle of controversy as his predecessors, but at that time he was limited to whether to leave or stay.
Data map: Chen Xuyuan at the press conference.
Image source: Chinese Football Association
During his three and a half years in office, Chen Xuyuan left many classic quotations.
"Don't you all wake up? Are our consciences dead?"
"Football is a noble sport, don't let money tarnish and distort it."
"I have always felt uneasy in the past three months since I came to the Football Association. I always have football in my mind. The responsibility is heavy on the shoulders. Whether it can meet the expectations of the broad masses of the people for football, in the final analysis, football needs a long time to work. "
"I used to have hesitation, hesitation, and discouragement for a while, and sometimes I even wanted to retreat, but now I am very strong, and I feel that I must continue."
How loud the slogan was at the beginning, how ironic it is now.
Data map: Chen Xuyuan was in SIPG.
Image source: Osports All Sports Photo Agency
80 days
It is also ironic that Chinese football is undergoing a rapid "hurricane". In just 80 days, the news of the investigation of several important figures was announced one after another, and the "hit rate" can be described as quite high.
When the World Cup in Qatar was in full swing, Li Tie, the former coach who led the national football team to the top 12 in the Asian region of the world preliminaries, was investigated.
It is also quite ironic that Japan, Saudi Arabia and Australia, who were in the same group as the national football team at that time, all made historic breakthroughs on the World Cup stage.
The investigation of Li Tie was only the beginning, and then Liu Yi, the former secretary-general of the Football Association, and Chen Yongliang, the executive deputy secretary-general of the Football Association, were both investigated.
Former national football coach Li Tie.
Just before the news of Chen Xuyuan's investigation was announced, Meng Jing, director and co-president of China Fortune Land Development Co., Ltd., was detained on suspicion of violating the law.
It is worth mentioning that he once served as the chairman of Hebei China Fortune Football Club.
And Li Tie once coached the Hebei team.
From the investigation of Li Tie on November 26, 2022, to Chen Xuyuan, the current chairman of the Football Association, in just 80 days, the information that 3 Football Association executives, 1 coach and club chairman were investigated in Chinese football was released.
Perhaps, these are just the commas left by the current rapid "hurricane" Chinese football.
Data map: Chen Yongliang, the head of the National Management Department of the Chinese Football Association who was investigated before.
Image source: IC photo
22 years
The "comma" was left there 10, 20 years ago.
On October 16, 2009, Zhong Guojian, the former owner of the Guangdong Eagles, was controlled by the police, and the last anti-gambling crackdown in Chinese football kicked off.
It is also "pull out the radish and bring out the mud", from Yang Xu, an official of the Guangzhou Football Association, several former executives of the Guangzhou Club, to Fan Guangming, an official of the Football Association, Ding Zhe, the former coach of Jinde, and the former general manager of the Shaanxi Guoli Club.
Step by step, I dug deeper into Nan Yong, the head of Chinese football at the time, his partner Yang Yimin, and Zhang Jianqiang, the former director of the referee committee.
Data map: Nan Yong, former director of the Football Management Center of the General Administration of Sport of China and vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association, was taken out of the Intermediate People's Court of Tieling City, Liaoning Province with the verdict.
Photo by Zhang Hao issued by China News Agency
Only 8 months after Nan Yong was taken away, Xie Yalong, the former head of Chinese football, was also suspected of match manipulation, commercial bribery and other criminal acts, along with Li Dongsheng, director of the referee committee, and Wei Shaohui, the former team leader of the national football team. A case was filed for investigation.
Those who "go in" together include Golden Whistle Lu Jun, referees Huang Junjie, Zhou Weixin, Wan Daxue and other well-known referees.
The wide scope involved and the depth of internal corruption in Chinese football are truly shocking.
Data map: Xie Yalong, who was once the head of Chinese football, arrived at the court.
Image source: CFP Vision China
Looking back, it was only a node of qualitative change.
As early as 2001, the day before the national football team entered the Korea-Japan World Cup, the "A-B Five Rats" incident broke out in Chinese football. Zhejiang Greentown lost 0:6 to Changchun Yatai.
After the game, Song Weiping, then the boss of the Zhejiang team, announced the expulsion of five problematic players in the team, and at the same time submitted a list of "black whistle" to the Chinese Football Association.
He even did not hesitate to blew himself up as a bribe: "I will never defend myself. If my imprisonment can change the anti-moral and anti-value concepts in football, it will be worth it. I also think that those clubs who engage in match-fixing with us, They should also be punished in the same way. Only through such pain can Chinese football gain new life."
Yang Yimin, the former deputy director of the Football Management Center of the General Administration of Sport of China, was taken out of the court.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Hao
Yan Shiduo, who was the head of Chinese football at the time, waved his stick and said that he would severely punish the responsible persons and black whistle related to the "Five Rats".
However, Chinese football did not get the "rebirth" that Song Weiping expected, but was hastily ended after the referee Gong Jianping was jailed.
From Gong Jianping, to Nanyong and Xie Yalong, to Chen Xuyuan and Li Tie, Chinese football has experienced three waves of anti-gambling and anti-crime storms in 22 years, but it has not been able to usher in a new life, but has been sinking in the cycle of reincarnation.
Nan Yong once said when he was in office: "The development of Chinese football has a long way to go. It may not work in the next three to five years, but Chinese football will definitely improve in ten or twenty years."
But more than ten years have passed.
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