Poster News reporter Zheng Hao reported
"Fans can tolerate the backwardness of Chinese football, but they cannot forgive corruption. As the chairman of the Football Association, I bear the main responsibility. I want to deeply apologize to the fans across the country. I am wrong. Yes, I really think that I was wrong. I regret myself very much. There is no regret medicine to buy. If there is regret medicine to buy, I am willing to buy it back with my life, and I will not do such a thing again. "In the fourth episode of CCTV's anti-corruption feature film "Continuous Efforts and Deep Advancement" on the evening of January 9, Chen Xuyuan, the former chairman of the Chinese Football Association, shed tears of regret in front of the camera.
However, many fans believe that this is "crocodile tears". After all, the hearts of Chinese fans have been hurt too deeply.
Betting on the World Cup
The last person to "put out the fire" was Li Xiaopeng
On February 1, 2022, as the Chinese national men's football team defeated Vietnam and announced that it would miss the Qatar World Cup two rounds in advance, the expectations of Chinese fans once again ended in disappointment. During the Chinese New Year holiday, the Chinese men’s football team really gave fans across the country a hard time.
If the Chinese women's football team had not won the Asian championship that holiday, then it would have been a difficult year for Chinese fans.
However, few people blamed the then coach Li Xiaopeng. Everyone knows that this outstanding local coach was only positioned as a "fireman" at the time - extinguishing the flames of anger in the fans' hearts.
Whether Lippi was "destroyed" by Chen Xuyuan and Li Tie jointly, perhaps everyone has their own answer.
Objectively speaking, the outside world's evaluation of Li Tie can be divided into two stages. First, in the last four rounds of the Qatar World Cup top 40, Li Tie performed well and led the team to the top 12. It was at that time that the scene of Chen Xuyuan dancing in circles was widely circulated.
"I hope everyone will maintain their fighting spirit. We still have the top 12 games next year. Next year we will walk into Qatar with our heads held high!" It looked so exciting at the time, but now it looks so embarrassing and helpless.
The second stage of Chen Xuyuan and Li Tie's "reign period"
is naturally the top 12 competition. The use of troops has been questioned, especially the use of naturalized players. He refused to admit defeat and held a 32-minute press conference. When public opinion was extremely passive, he also used the "Nine Palaces" form to advertise in disguise... Li Tie's series Behind the bizarre operation, there was the "strong support" of the Chinese Football Association at the time.
"Corruption in Chinese football is not in one aspect, but in all aspects." Chen Xuyuan's repentance came a little later.
From "Dock Chen" to "Worship the Dock"
The chairman of the Football Association is a "high-risk profession"
CCTV's anti-corruption feature film introduced that Chen Xuyuan became the 6th chairman of the Chinese Football Association on August 22, 2019. To be precise, Chen Xuyuan is the sixth leader of the Chinese Football Association after entering the new century. The night before he was elected, two heads of the local football association knocked on his door one after another, and each gave him 300,000 yuan in "payments", asking him to take good care of him.
"Come into my room, put your backpack on my sofa, and say, Chairman Chen, congratulations and congratulations to you, I hope I can take care of you, and then I say something, and he said it's the old rule, we all do it."
Because Chen Xuyuan was born as a dock worker, many fans at that time privately called Chen Xuyuan "Dock Chen" after he was elected chairman of the Football Association - but on that night, others called him "Dock Chen". .
Chen Xuyuan and Du Zhaocai
Before Chen Xuyuan took office, he put forward the idea of "two objections and one support". The first is to resolutely oppose the naturalization of unrelated foreign players; the second is to resolutely oppose money worship; what is supported is the implementation of a professional football league.
"Someone has discussed with me many times that I hope SIPG can naturalize foreign players, but I don't agree with this idea. To succeed in Chinese football, we must do our best honestly and don't leave." There are too many shortcuts, don’t think that the victory brought by shortcuts will last long.” “Football is a noble sport, don’t let money taint or distort it.If you put money first, your career will not have a future. The real backbone of a person is faith and ideals. "The words were spoken by Chen Xuyuan at the time, but what he did is already clear.
Yan Shiduo, Xie Yalong, Nan Yong, Wei Di, Cai Zhenhua, and Chen Xuyuan, after entering the new century, these six former helmsmen of the Chinese Football Association have become Half of them "got in."
From this point of view, the chairman of the Football Association is still a "high-risk profession."
