On the afternoon of August 7, 2022, a match-fixing incident occurred in the final of the 16th Boys' Football BA (U15) Group in Guangdong Province. With the approval of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection set up an investigation group to find out the truth, conduct an in-depth investigation into the incident of poor fulfillment and dereliction of duty, insist on accountability and strict accountability, adhere to the disciplinary rules and regulations, and adhere to the truth, scientific and accurate, and hold 16 party members and leading cadres seriously accountable.

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Wang Yuping, secretary of the party group and director of the Guangdong Provincial Sports Bureau, was given a serious warning within the party, a political demerit, and removed from office.

Guangdong Provincial Sports Bureau party group members, deputy director Mai Liang given a warning within the party, political demerits.

Lei Qijun, member of the party group of the Guangdong Provincial Sports Bureau, deputy director, was given a serious warning within the party, a major political demerit, removed from office.

Guangdong Province soccer center party branch member, director Cheng Zhiwen was revoked party position, political affairs were removed, downgraded to a career management post staff.

Tan Ping, member of the party group of the Guangzhou Municipal Government and deputy mayor, was given a warning within the Party and a political demerit.

Ouyang Ziwen, party secretary and director of the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Sports, was given a serious warning within the party, a major political demerit and removed from office.

Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Sports Deputy Secretary of the party group, deputy director Lin Yanfen given a serious warning within the party, the political record.

Wu Minchun, a member of the party group and deputy director of the Guangzhou Municipal Sports Bureau, was dismissed from his party post and demoted to second-class researcher.

Guangzhou Municipal Sports Bureau party committee full-time deputy secretary Wang Shuyong, secretary of the Discipline Inspection Committee to give a serious warning within the party, political demotion.

Pei Weimin, Secretary of the Party Branch of the Competitive Sports Department of the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Sports, Director, revocation of Party duties, political dismissal, demotion to third-class researcher.

Su Jindan, a member of the party group of the Qingyuan Municipal Government and deputy mayor, was given a warning within the party and a political demerit.

Xu Guangyong, secretary of the party group of Qingyuan City Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau, was given a serious warning within the party, a major political demerit, and removed from office.

Cai Invention, Qingyuan City Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau party group members, deputy director, given a serious warning within the party, political demerits, removed from office.

Sun Hao, a member of the party group of the Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports of Qingyuan City, was given a warning within the party and a political demerit.

Xie Zhiguang, chairman of Guangzhou Football Association, former director of Guangzhou Football Management Center, stayed in the party for two years, reduced retirement benefits, determined retirement benefits according to the tenth grade staff of the institution management position, exempted from the position of chairman of Guangzhou Football Association.

Party organizations and party members and cadres at all levels in the province should deeply study and implement the important instructions and directives of General Secretary Xi Jinping on the work of soccer, learn the lessons, take warning, make in-depth rectification and improve the system. We should insist on learning from the past, establish a correct view of political performance, follow the laws of soccer development, improve the long-term mechanism of tournament management and supervision, and effectively prevent the recurrence of similar problems. Carry forward the spirit of Chinese sports, do a good job in the construction of soccer, with zero tolerance attitude to investigate and deal with match-fixing and other serious violations of the style of play, discipline, and resolutely stop match-fixing and other malpractices, to promote the healthy and orderly development of the cause of soccer.

Game Recap:

August 7, Guangdong Provincial Games men's BA group U in 15 group final, Guangzhou 5-3 victory over Qingyuan to win the title. However, according to the blogger, "No. 10 Pei Pei" had a lot of questions about the video posted for this game.

Guangzhou took the lead in 17 minutes before Qingyuan equalized on the right in 32 minutes. In the second half, Qingyuan surpassed the score with a corner kick opportunity to lead 2-1. Then, with individual breakthroughs from players, the score was extended to 3-1.

With a two-goal lead, Qingyuan changed a couple of players, and a Guangzhou player first made contact with an opponent in the penalty area, and the referee punted the ball, and the Guangzhou player punted the ball to make the score close to 2-3.

Guangzhou then formed a chance on the right side, while Qingyuan's players in the center and on the right were nowhere near the players on the right. Meanwhile, they watched their opponent break through and successfully shoot to equalize the score.

After being equalized, Clearfield made a mistake at the back. The goalkeeper passed the ball directly to the center back with opposing players pressing for a goal, and was broken up and scored to complete the comeback. The rest of the Qingyuan defense watched calmly.

After that, Guangzhou had a chance to counterattack with a 2-4 up front. however, Qingyuan's four defenders were inactive and moved slowly. They were broken by two of the opposing team's defense and conceded another goal. In the end, Guangzhou reversed 5-3 and won the championship.

The blogger who released the video of the game, "No. 10 Pei Pei", wrote on his personal social media: "The first lesson for Chinese soccer players, and also the most important lesson that needs to be supplemented, should be the ideological and moral lessons. Doing soccer, first of all, love soccer, respect soccer, first be a person, and then play soccer. Otherwise, no matter how many championships you win, even if it is the World Cup champion, what is the significance of it? First of all, you must be a human being, and then you need to keep reminding yourself that you are a human being, and you also need to educate the player that he is also a human being."

According to another video posted by the blogger, Qingyuan was not in a hurry when they were down by two goals and were backpedaling in the backfield. Guangzhou didn't move forward aggressively either.

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