Beijing time, February 17, the head of the Football Association, Chen Xuyuan, was arrested on suspicion of serious disciplinary violations, which has become a hot topic in the past two days. After all, many of Chen Xuyuan's policies since taking office have been fraught with controversy and have filled Chinese soccer with chicken feathers.
As we all know, Chen Xuyuan, as the former chairman of Shanghai Port, led Shanghai Port to win the Chinese Super League title and enter the knockout stage of the AFC Champions League for four consecutive years, and gained the appreciation of the leadership, parachuted into the highest leadership of the CFA, and Chen Xuyuan became the first chairman of the non-sports system of the CFA.
When Chen Xuyuan took office, there were a lot of expectations. He has made many amazing statements during his time in Hong Kong and has managed businesses for many years. He agreed that Chen Xuyuan would definitely bring changes to Chinese soccer when he took office, but now it seems that Chen Xuyuan did bring changes, but the changes are getting worse.
In particular, the neutral policy proposed by Chen Xuyuan caused companies to lose interest in investing, leading to the dissolution of 35 professional teams. He suppressed the naturalization policy and rejected naturalized players, allowing teams such as Evergrande, Luneng and Guoan to spend 2.2 billion yuan to enter naturalization.
In this connection, the famous journalist HO Hiu-lung has also pointed out his two major sins, namely, sparing no effort in sheltering Shanghai; and sparing no effort in quarrelling with his predecessor.
What He Xiaolong said about Chen Xuyuan sheltering Shanghai is that he acquiesced to Shanghai playing word games on the neutral name policy. After proposing a pay cut, he allegedly let it slip to Shanghai in advance, asking Oscar to renew his contract with Shanghai in advance. In terms of the adjustment fee, he gave Shanghai the green light to acquiesce in Shanghai's non-payment of the adjustment fee without penalty.
As for arguing with his predecessor, it was the suppression of the naturalization policy, limiting the number of naturalized players and the number of years of naturalization, resulting in several naturalized players of Evergrande not being able to play at the same time, and making Tarzan Delgado a curiosity as a foreigner in any league. None of this is really a big deal, after all, it only hurts these teams.
However, Chen Xuyuan instructed Li Tie not to play the naturalized players at the same time, which harmed the interests of the national football team. After all, the national football team's strength has increased dramatically with Ackerson, Luo Guofu, and Alan, which has made teams such as Japan and Saudi Arabia quite scared. However, he suppressed the naturalized players solely to make the national football team give up their own martial arts, which caused the national football team to miss the World Cup again, and also made Li Tie bring him a black pot for not reusing the naturalized players.
It can be said that only these two crimes listed by He Xiaolong are enough to doom Chen Xuyuan. After all, for the sake of his own selfish desires, he harmed the interests of other Chinese Super League teams and neglected national honor. Therefore, from these two perspectives, catching him is not unfair at all.
