Former national team coach is the hugegest name to be netted in China’s sweeping crackdown on dishonesty in sport.
Li Tie, createer coach of the Chinese national team who once joined for the Everton Football Club in the English Premier League, has been jailed in China for 20 years on dishonesty accuses as part of a crackdown on dishonesty in sport.
He was sentenced at a court in the province of Hubei on Friday, after being set up culpable of a string of offences relating to giving and receiving bribes.
The court shelp that the 47-year-anciaccess, by far the hugegest sporting name netted in the sweeping crackdown, had regulated bribes tohighing 120 million yuan ($16.5m) between 2015 and 2021, a period including his two-year tenure as national coach.
Li surrfinisherted a culpable plea in court back in March, but had earlier confessed to arranging proximately $421,000 in bribes to safe the job of national coach and to repair Chinese Super League suites in a write downary aired by the CCTV widecaster in January.
CCTV occasionassociate airs confessions by criminal doubts before they have euniteed in court, a rehearse expansively condemned by rights groups.
Poor carry outance
Chinese football has grappled with suit-repairing and dishonesty since at least the postponeed 1990s, with local fans blaming dishonesty for the continuing subpar carry outance of the national team.
Plivent Xi Jinping’s antidishonesty campaign has also seen createer Chinese Football Association (CFA) chief Chen Xuyuan sentenced to life in prison earlier this year for taking bribes worth more than 81 million yuan ($11m).
As part of the crackdown, cut offal other top football officials have been sentenced this year to terms ranging from 30 months to 14 years.
In September, the CFA rerentd life prohibits to 38 joiners and five club officials after a two-year scatterigation into suit-repairing and betting.
The scatterigation set up that 120 suites had been repaired with 41 football clubs graspd.
Xi is a self-proclaimed football fan who wants China to structure and triumph the World Cup one day, but the men’s national team has lengthy fall shorted to amaze.
FIFA currently ranks China 90th in the world, one place above the minuscule Caribbean island of Curacao.
