Du Zhaocai is out of power and the buzz continues. Who will take over the job?On April 2, news of the former party secretary of the Basketball Association was hotly debated on the Internet. Tennis Association President Bai Xilin seems to be moving to the Football Association, making himself quite puzzled. However, the Football Association saw a new move on April 2nd!
Well-known media person Qin Yun disclosed: "This morning (April 2), the General Administration of Sports, the head and deputy director of the General Administration of Sports led a team to announce that Du Zhaocai was examined and investigated; at the same time, Li Yingchuan, deputy director of the General Administration of Sports, and Cao Jingwei (former men's national football team leader) to form a temporary working group, members include Yang Xu and other members of the Association of Football Associations (AFA) Vice President Gao Hongbo, Sun Wen and Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission Yan Zhanhe. The leadership of the General Administration emphasized that the current task is to assist the FA in the transition and complete the change of government."
The addition of the Airborne Trio gives the FA a new leadership team for a special time. But it seems that this temporary team will not be around for long.
According to the original plan, the CFA will be replaced in May. This time, a number of people in the middle and senior levels of the Football Association were taken away by the Liaoning police and Hubei police, suspected of match-fixing, match-fixing and gambling, and numerous people were caught in the net, exposing the lack of work of the disciplinary department of the Football Association. As the secretary of the Discipline Inspection Committee of the FA, will Yan Zhanhe continue to stay in his post? Vice Chairman Gao Hongbo and Sun Wen in the Association's internal authority is limited, and the two have long had the intention to retire, in the face of a comprehensive reshuffle of the top of the Association, the choice to leave seems logical.
Of the three new arrivals, Li Yingchuan, the deputy director of the General Administration of Sport, is the highest-ranking, having served on the executive committee of the Football Association and is more familiar with soccer. However, at 63 years old, it seems that Li will not be a long-term candidate. The arrival of the relatively young Yang Xu and Cao Jingwei is significant. Yang Xu has not had many previous encounters with soccer, while Cao Jingwei is an old face of Chinese soccer.
In 2010, after the incident of Nan Yong and Yang Yimin, Cui Dalin pushed Wei Di to the leadership position of the Football Association, Wei Di brought the "five tigers of the water army" quickly occupy the core position. These five people are the then director of the Youth Department Sun Zhedong, then Minister of Technology Yang Xinli, then Minister of Competition Management Qi Jun, then Minister of General Affairs Guo Tao, then Minister of National Management Cao Jingwei. Qi Jun has the longest working experience in the FA. 2022, Li Xiaopeng led the team in the last four games of the Top 12, Qi Jun served as the leader of the national football team. Cao Jingwei, on the other hand, is better known.
Cao Jingwei also held the position of national soccer leader, both for the men's and women's soccer teams, during his tenure as Minister of National Management from 2010 to 2013. Cao Jingwei has been in the spotlight many times for his comments on the leadership of the national soccer team, such as the senior national team's training for the Asian Cup, which he initiated. Cao Jingwei is also a staunch supporter of the senior national team and has repeatedly defended Gao Hongbo after the team's 2011 Asian Cup group exit.
Cao Jingwei also showed a long-term vision during his time at the FA. in 2013, in an interview with CCTV Football Night, he called on the country to formulate a relevant policy as soon as possible to allow Murray to represent the national soccer team. He was the first person in Chinese football to bring attention to big data analysis, introducing Amisico, a professional software for data analysis, into Chinese football and establishing a professional data analysis system for the national soccer team.
However, Cao Jingwei's time at the FA also left an impression of being an accident-prone organization. in June 2013, the national football team played three consecutive warm-up matches in Hohhot, Beijing, and Hefei, and the team was in disarray when Cao Jingwei went home to celebrate Camacho's birthday. Subsequently, the national football team suffered a 1-5 defeat in Hefei, Camacho resigned and Cao Jingwei was caught up in the public opinion. But in July 2013, Cao Jingwei took charge of the women's soccer team in the East Asian Cup "Redemption Battle", which may have laid the foundation for his subsequent transfer.
After Cao Jingwei left the Football Association, his career has been smooth, successively serving as the head of the second unit of the Aquatic Center Sports, deputy director of the Aquatic Center, deputy director of the Sports Headquarters, director of the Institute of Science and Research of the Sports Headquarters, secretary of the Party Committee, secretary-general of the Chinese Society of Sports Science, secretary of the Party Committee, deputy director of the Council and other positions.
Ostensibly, Cao Jingwei has not been involved in the FA for the past decade. However, at the end of 2021, after the Li Tie incident, Li Xiaopeng was appointed as the head coach of the national soccer team, and Cao Jingwei was once again put forward as Li Xiaopeng's candidate. Cao Jingwei's last visit to the FA came at a time when he was playing the role of firefighter in the fight against gambling and blackmail. This time, Cao Jingwei will shoulder a more important mission.
