Suspected of serious violations of discipline and law
Chen Xuyuan, chairman of the Chinese Football Association, under investigation
Yesterday, the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Group of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervision Committee of the State Sports General Administration (hereinafter referred to as the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Team of the General Administration of Sports) and the website of the Hubei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision announced that: Chen Xuyuan, chairman of the Chinese Football Association and deputy secretary of the party committee, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law. It is under investigation by the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Team of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervision Committee of the State Sports General Administration and the Hubei Provincial Supervision Committee.
Chen Xuyuan served as the leader of the preparatory team for the re-election of the Chinese Football Association in May 2019, the chairman of the Chinese Football Association in August 2019, and the deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the Chinese Football Association in December 2019.
The investigation of Chen Xuyuan means that a new round of anti-corruption storms in Chinese football is still continuing.
On November 26 last year, the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Group of the General Administration of Sports and the website of the Hubei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Li Tie, the former head coach of the Chinese National Men's Football Team, was under investigation for serious violations of the law.
On January 19 this year, the above-mentioned two websites announced again that Liu Yi, a member of the 11th executive committee of the Chinese Football Association and former secretary-general, was suspected of serious violations of the law and was under investigation; the executive deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Football Association and the national team Chen Yongliang, director of the management department, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is under review and investigation.
On August 22, 2019, Liu Yi was elected as the secretary-general of the Chinese Football Association at the first meeting of the 11th General Assembly of the Chinese Football Association. dispute.
Chen Yongliang once served as the general manager of the Chinese Super League and the leader of the Olympic working group.
This series of problems came to the surface because of the report of the Wuhan Changjiang Club.
In 2022, the Yangtze River Club reported Li Tie's suspected "economic crime".
They pointed out that Li Tie did not "sever all interest ties" with local clubs in accordance with the national team's management regulations after he became the coach of the national team, and he still received a high salary from the Wuhan club.
Since then, the relationship between Li Tie and the club has broken down due to suspected serious illegal incidents such as "signing kickbacks" and "league match-fixing". At that time, the senior officials of the Chinese Football Association helped Li Tie to "ask for salary" from the Wuhan club, which also violated the regulations of the Chinese Football Association. Regulations related to the national team.
On January 25 this year, the Wuhan Yangtze River Club announced its withdrawal from Chinese football, and mentioned in the statement that it would not make up the wages of "a certain coach and some of the players he handled, foreign aid and individual players who violated team discipline".
Reporter Li Li
Beijing Evening News