The fall of Du Zhaocai and the revelation of the crimes he was involved in has triggered a major change in the winds of discussion about abandoning the use of naturalized players. Since Li Tie took over the coaching of the national team, naturalized players have found it difficult to find a starting position, and there is even the embarrassing situation of multiple naturalized players playing on the same field, which has made the fans who originally expected them to rewrite the national team disheartened. For the Evergrande Club, which invested heavily in the introduction of naturalized players, these investments did not bring the expected return, resulting in the pursuit of the national team's dream of leaping so far failed to come true.
The implementation of the naturalization policy, due to Li Tie's underhanded manipulation, the national soccer team failed to qualify for the World Cup, and even failed to beat Vietnam, setting an unenviable and shameful record. Against this backdrop, many speculate that the national soccer team's rejection of naturalized players was not to promote the progress of local players, as Li Tie openly stated, but rather stemmed from Chen Xuyuan's bias. In order to curry favor with Chen Xuyuan, Li Tie did not dare to use naturalized players.
However, Li Tie and Chen Xuyuan were not the top leaders of the FA, the real helmsman was Du Zhaocai. Du Zhaocai implemented the naturalization policy, while Li Tie and Chen Xuyuan appeared to be quite conservative in the use of naturalized players. In the later stages of the policy, Du Zhaocai was indifferent to this resistance and never even stood up to defend his policy, leading Li Tie and others to abandon the naturalization policy. This also reflects how difficult it was for Du Zhaocai to implement the naturalization policy in the beginning.
According to the criminal evidence exposed by the media, Du Zhaocai seriously disrupted the soccer ecology, and he used sports, soccer and his huge fortune to illegally enrich himself. While promoting the naturalization policy, Du Zhaocai forced through a number of policies that should have been blocked in order to pursue his personal interests. To date, the recruitment and adjustment fees for naturalized players have not been refunded to the clubs. Meanwhile, this huge amount of money to aid mediation fees is dwindling at a time when many clubs in the CSL are in dire need of funds. Many fans are also concerned whether other club fees are also falling into Dzogchen's pocket.
Generally speaking, Du Zhaocai's naturalization policy is not genuinely for the well-being of Chinese soccer, but rather, he himself has gained great benefits from the policy. Du Zhaocai can use the naturalization policy to raise a lot of money and get more benefits for himself. Therefore, it is not difficult to see that, as the leader of the FA, Du Zhaocai was silent and even appeared indifferent to the suppression of naturalized players by Li Tie and others. In the final analysis, the so-called FA is nothing more than a case of each taking what he wants. Du Zhaocai reaped rich benefits through the naturalization policy, and it is impossible for others to be unaware of this. If Du Zhaocai did not suppress the naturalized players, he would not have been able to reap another fortune from the naturalization policy after cutting off the path to wealth.
Cai Zhenhua appears to be more innocent in this matter. Since the launch of the naturalization policy, Cai Zhenhua and Zhang Jian quickly withdrew from the Football Association (FA), and many speculated at the time that Cai Zhenhua might have been subject to higher-level restrictions and forced to leave the important management of the FA. However, from the current situation, Cai Zhenhua has obviously foreseen that the naturalization policy and other profit-seeking tactics will eventually be exposed, and all he can do is to stay away from the federation to avoid getting involved!
