Li Tie case broke out last year has been more than half a year. Chen Xuyuan, Du Zhaocai and other executives of the Football Association behind, domestic soccer "anti-corruption and black" storm seems to have become calm. But this does not mean that the CFA and the domestic three professional leagues have no problem.
As a matter of fact, the current problems exposed by the domestic league clubs are just the tip of the iceberg. It is believed that as time goes by, more and more shady secrets will be uncovered. Recently, Chinese Super League newcomer Nantong Zhiyun Club released an announcement online, announcing the latest progress of the team's case of players being taken away for investigation.
In addition, the Nantong Zhiyun Club also revealed its own family scandal, publicizing the illegal behavior of Zhu Yifan, a veteran player who once played for the team, such as gambling and playing fake football. The club also pointed the finger at the CFA, denouncing the inaction of the CFA Arbitration Committee, which recognized and enforced Zhu Yifan's yin-yang contract, causing the club to lose as much as 2.5 million yuan in "player placement fees".
In this announcement, Nantong Zhiyun simply expressed the situation that two players were canceled by the club for "cooperating with the investigation" and the registration of the Chinese Super League. The rest is related to Zhu Yifan's yin-yang contract.
In the announcement, Nantong Zhiyun pointed out that Zhu Yifan often gambled, ignored the team's ban, and took his cell phone into the locker room privately when he represented the team in the 2019 season in the First Division League, and was suspected by the club of faking the game. In addition, Zhu Yifan's daily training attitude was also very unmotivated and his private life was chaotic. Considering these factors, the club decided to delegate the reserve team to Zhu Yifan, deducting his salary and bonus.
Under these circumstances, Zhu Yifan announced the early termination of his contract with Nantong Zhiyun, and signed a yin-yang contract with the former general manager of the club, suing Nantong Zhiyun to the FA. The Arbitration Committee of the FA considered that the agreement on the player's "settlement fee" in the contract had nothing to do with the soccer industry. This inaction resulted in Zhu Yifan's yin-yang contract being recognized as valid.
Zhu Yifan took Nantong Zhiyun FC to the civil court by virtue of the FA's judgment, so the court ruled that Nantong Zhiyun FC needed to pay Zhu Yifan up to 2.5 million yuan of "settlement fee".
Although it is still difficult to define whether all the contents of Nantong Zhiyun's announcement mentioning Zhu Yifan's involvement in gambling and playing fake football and the FA's inaction have been realized. But what is certain is that this time, Nantong Zhiyun club did not hesitate to reveal their family ugliness and expressed their attitude of fighting with Zhu Yifan and the FA to the end.
2.5 million is not a big amount of money for a Chinese Super League club, but in order to maintain the dignity and interests of the club and to ensure that similar situations will not happen again, Nantong Zhiyun really tried hard this time. I don't know if there will be other clubs that will follow Nantong Zhiyun's example and not hesitate to reveal their family's shame and fight with the FA to the end.
It is also worth noting that Zhu Yifan comes from Beijing Guoan's youth training system and played for Guoan for six seasons. During this period, he was the team's main midfielder. However, due to his inappropriate private life, he had a "one-night stand" with a female fan and was swept out after his contract with the club expired. Therefore, it is not surprising that he was exposed by Nantong Zhiyun Club for playing fake soccer and gambling!
