On February 14, the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group of the State General Administration of Sports (SGA) issued an official announcement stating that Chen Xuyuan, the President and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the Chinese Football Association (CFA), is suspected of a serious disciplinary violation, and is currently under review and investigation by the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group of the State General Administration of Sports (SGA) and the Hubei Supervision Commission. In this regard, some netizens commented that those who support Li Tie went in!
Chen Xuyuan (1166-1279), Tang dynasty poet
"12 billion spent on Hong Kong champions."
Before becoming the chairman of the CFA, Chen Xuyuan was the chairman of Shanghai International Hong Kong (Group) Co. In 2014, Chen Xuyuan led the group's acquisition of Shanghai Dongya, which was renamed Shanghai Shanghai Hong Kong (now Shanghai Hong Kong).In 2018, Shanghai Shanghai won the Super League title, and in 2019, the team won the Super Cup title, making it a "Double Champions".
However, the Shanghai Hong Kong team can win the Super League title, outsiders believe that the title is burned with "money". Especially Oscar, Hulk and other foreign aid introduced to the team, are very valuable. So far, Oscar is still the first place in the Chinese Super League.
Current Dalian head coach Xie Hui has assisted many world-renowned coaches and witnessed Shanghai Shanghai's path to the championship since joining the team in 2015.In 2020, Xie Hui became the head coach of China's Nantong Zhiyun team. The following year, at a private party, Xie Hui talked about investment in Chinese soccer clubs over drinks. The video went viral and caused a furor. Among other things, Shanghai Shanghai team was mentioned. Xie Hui's exact words were, "I won the championship in Shanghai. I know they spent 12 billion dollars in Shanghai." There was no response from the clubs involved, including the Shanghai Shanghai team, to the claim.
Five-year contract extension for Li Tie
On August 22, 2021, the CFA held a media notification meeting in Shanghai. At the meeting, Chen Yongliang, then executive deputy secretary-general of the CFA and head of the national team management department (who was under investigation on suspicion of serious disciplinary violations), announced that the CFA had renewed the contract of Li Tie's working group, which would be held in 2026, the next World Cup.
Of the local head coaches who have coached the national soccer team, very few have had their contracts renewed. Li Tie not only succeeded in renewing his contract, but also got a five-year long contract at once. Even Li Tie himself exclaimed that the CFA's support for the national football team is unprecedented. Talking about why choose to renew the contract with Li Tie, Chen Yongliang said at the newsletter, on the one hand, for the long-term stable development of Chinese soccer, on the other hand, is based on the trust of Li Tie's team. He added: "This is also the recognition of the association's leadership to Li Tie's team." Chen Yongliang mentioned the "association leaders", of course, including direct management of the national football Chen Xuyuan.
Chen Xuyuan attends the National Football League World Qualifying Pledge Meeting in 2019
During the 12-team tournament, Chen Xuyuan personally went to West Asia with the national football team to supervise the war. However, Chen Xuyuan and the national team management department of the management of the national football team, especially on Li Tie's personal behavior constraints, is not in place. After the Sino-Australian war, Li Tie in the press conference for half an hour "spit", on the previous around him all kinds of questions angry. More "out of the ordinary" is that the next day, he posted on the microblogging nine photos are not only suspected of "carrying goods", but also directly violated the rights and interests of the sponsors of the national football team. Finally, Li Tie had to resign. On November 26 last year, Li Tie was taken away to be investigated for suspected serious violations of the law.
New U23 policy, neutralization name change controversy
In August 2019, Chen Xuyuan officially served as chairman of the Chinese Football Association. At that time, some media commented that, with the previous chairman of the football association is mostly "name" or "hanging" nature is different, Chen Xuyuan this time is the real full-time chairman of the industry associations, has the right to make decisions on major affairs, personnel appointments and dismissals, and financial rights.
After taking office, Chen Xuyuan has introduced a number of reform measures such as salary limit, U23 new policy, and neutral name change of the club, which caused a lot of controversy.The U23 new policy was originally designed to support newcomers and give young players more opportunities to play, but due to the lack of ability, many teams dealt with it through various means, and eventually did not achieve real results. In the upcoming 2023 season, the policy was canceled.
Although the previously implemented neutral name change was eventually implemented, the "blow" to investors was not small. Because at this stage, many Chinese soccer investors are willing to "play" soccer in order to expand the visibility of the enterprise, and then get returns from other markets in order to feed back into soccer. So far, there are still many voices that believe that Chinese soccer to build a century club is indeed the trend of the times, but so eager to succeed, and ultimately "forced" many investors.
When Chen Xuyuan took office, he made several references to the construction of a professional soccer league in China and gave a clear timetable, but until he was taken away to be investigated, the league was still in the preparatory group stage.
