On August 17th, the People's Government of Guangdong Province urgently convened the province's sports system to emphasize the importance of sports discipline and anti-doping education through a video and telephone conference. Wang Weizhong, Governor of Guangdong Province, emphasized at the meeting that strict discipline is a political task and responsibility, and that lessons should be learned from the alleged match-fixing incident in the final of the Boys' Soccer Group BA (U15) of the Provincial Games between Guangzhou and Qingyuan, and that we should resolutely avoid touching the lifeblood and high-pressure line of the work of the sports sector, and ensure that the principles of the "two establishments" and the "two protections" are implemented in our actions. The principle of "two establishments" and "two protections" is implemented in action.
Subsequently, the Chinese Football Association (CFA) quickly responded by issuing two consecutive circulars: on the 17th, it issued a circular on strengthening the discipline of soccer tournaments and cracking down on fake gambling and black acts, and on the 18th, it issued a circular on further strengthening the management of referees, which explicitly requires referees to strictly abide by the bottom line of the law and ensure that the tournaments are fair, just and orderly.
China's soccer may once again set off a frenzy to combat "fake gambling and black".
Obviously, the Guangdong Provincial Games Boys' Football U15 final of the suspicion of fake football, so that the State General Administration of Sports and the Chinese Football Association are worried about fake gambling and black issues may surface again.
On the morning of the 18th, the Chinese Football Association and the preparatory group of the Chinese Football League summoned the person in charge of the clubs of the Chinese Super League, the Chinese A League and the Chinese B League through the on-line way to convene a special working meeting, aiming to comprehensively warn the protection of the style of the game and the discipline of the game and to combat the ugly phenomenon of the football world.
At the end of 2009, Chinese soccer had set off an anti-gambling and anti-triad storm, and a number of professionals were sanctioned by the law, and this storm cleared some of the tumors accumulated in 15 years of professionalization of Chinese soccer.
The 2009 anti-gambling crackdown became a watershed moment for Chinese soccer.
At that time, the problem was mainly centered on the transition years of the A-League to the Chinese Super League. Some policies introduced by the Football Association, such as the abolition of promotion and relegation and the accumulation of two years of league points to determine the attribution of the Chinese Super League quota, led to the final round of the 2003 A-League, in which Chongqing had to lose in order to have any hope of being relegated. In order to prevent the embarrassing situation of Chongqing losing to enter the Chinese Super League, the leaders of the AFA at the time went out and operated the final round match between Shanghai COSCO and Tianjin in the hope that Tianjin would win to stay in the Chinese Super League.
At the level of referees, clubs and players, the frequent occurrence of desperate measures for profit ultimately led to the chaos in Chinese soccer during that time, and now the emergence of large-scale salary arrears in the league bodes well for some bad omens. Many insiders generally believe that although the overall situation of the Chinese Super League has been under control in the last two years, there have been some alarming situations in the lower leagues due to the lack of attention and insufficient supervision.
According to Beijing Youth Daily, the Chinese Football Association (CFA) has received reports that some clubs are involved in gambling on football matches, and the Association has set up a special working group for this purpose, which will join hands with the public security departments to launch investigations and combat illegal and criminal activities of gambling on soccer matches. Leaders of the Association also warned that the phenomenon of gambling has not been extinct in Chinese soccer, and that clubs must exercise self-discipline and must not touch the bottom line of rules, discipline and law.
The hopes of the fans back then still apply to Chinese soccer today.
As a matter of fact, obvious match-fixing, betting and black whistles are not difficult to detect in the end as long as the parties concerned pay enough attention to them. The State General Administration of Sport and the Chinese Football Association reaffirmed the discipline of the game in the event of bad omens, also to take precautions and prevent extreme situations from occurring.
However, some tacit understanding is difficult to manage. In the National Games, the banner "Liaoning and Shandong are one family, two to two draw into the top eight" is a typical tacit understanding of the ball. Even in European football, such a tacit understanding of the ball is also the organizers can not manage. 2004 European Cup, the two Nordic powers Denmark and Sweden played 2-2, sent Italy back home.
At the beginning of the professional league, China's earliest player Yang Chen joined the first season in Frankfurt, leading the team in the final round of the 5-1 victory over Kaiserslautern successfully relegated, but the score of this competition is not the normal strength of the two teams performance. It can be said that this is an unspoken tacit understanding of the two sides of the ball, however, as long as no money transactions involved, even if this looks a little outrageous tacit understanding of the ball, the German Football Association has no way to make any punishment.
Back to the Guangdong Provincial Games this final, if the players of Qingyuan team chose to lose the game with the tacit understanding of the fans difficult to see the way, perhaps the public opinion is difficult to say anything about this. Therefore, from this point of view, we have to thank the U15 players of the Qingyuan team, they used this extremely ugly way to lose the game, so that the outside world to focus on the game behind the possible existence of some of the cats and dogs, which is their courage to say no to some of the unspoken rules. (Raging News reporter Song Chengliang)
