In the spring of 2023, the winds of discipline blowing in Hubei, China's track and field head Yu Hongchen suspected of violating discipline storm, the central and local watchdogs join forces to launch an in-depth investigation.
This case is like a heavy bomb which has been stirring up the nerves of the soccer sector since last year, and more than eight key players have been involved in the case.
Hongchen's love affair with soccer has been closely linked since 2006, when he was given the responsibility of being the deputy director of the Beijing Olympic Games preparation office.
In 2009, the soccer industry anti-gambling storm swept through the Football Association, the top management of the Association was investigated one after another, Yu Hongchen, as the deputy director of the Football Management Center, bluntly stated that "the top leaders of the industry to make the mistake is heartbreaking".
At the end of 2015, Yu Hongchen stepped down as vice-chairman of the Football Association and took over as full-time executive committee member. in the height of summer 2017, he bid farewell to soccer.
Huntsman's departure coincides with the launch of an innovative strategy by the Football Association aimed at guaranteeing young players' appearances, a move that has sparked much debate in the industry.
"If you can't play, you can't play," Yu Hongchen's quote seems to be one of the most remembered phrases of his career.
His "rise to fame" began with the story of Shandong Luneng, who rented Wang Hao for 4.1 million dollars in the 2006 Bing Super League, and after some twists and turns, the rental fee was cleverly transformed into a permanent transfer fee.
Cai Zhenhua, who was the "head of the national football team" at the time, in the face of the "sky-high delisting" controversy, took a firm stance that the policy had been set and could not be changed.
Subsequently, Cai Zhenhua turned to soccer, and this controversy over the BING has become the trigger for the discord between Luneng and the Football Association.
In 2009, China's soccer anti-triad storm, Shandong Luneng was involved in it, but the impact was not great.
In the 2010 Chinese Super League, Shandong Luneng hosted Liaoning Hongyun, and a controversy over "offside" sparked the match.
In the background of the "black whistle" rampant, the Football Association will be customized referees to the lottery system, the emergence of new referees has led to a series of problems.
At that time, the senior management of Shandong Luneng expressed dissatisfaction with the referee's decision, while Yu Hongchen said that everything will be carried out in accordance with the procedures.
In the 2011 Chinese Super League (CSL), referee Ma Ning's controversial decision in the match between Shandong Luneng and Tianjin Kangshi once again triggered Luneng's dissatisfaction.
Just like that, the conversation between Yu Hongchen and Han Gongzheng seemed extraordinarily harmonious, but Luneng's wait was long and lonely.
In 2013, Guangzhou Evergrande enjoyed the "seven foreign aid" policy in the AFC Champions League, a move that caused a furor in the industry.
The Beijing Guoan boss has been outspoken about this and believes that such a policy is not fair.
Zhang Linpeng and Rong Hao withdrew from the national soccer team's warm-up match with Oman due to injuries, but appeared in Guangzhou Evergrande's warm-up match, an act that has been described by outsiders as "swindling".
In 2019, a similar incident once again, the "fraudulent" behavior of the Guangzhou Evergrande national footballer has aroused concern.
Yu Hongchen was investigated, an event that put Hubei at the start of the storm, six years after he left the FA.
This soccer anti-corruption seems to have spread beyond the FA level and is spreading to a wider area, and it is, well, far from over.
Chen Yongliang's arrest is directly related to Yu Hongchen, and the truth behind Hongchen has become the center of attention.
In this storm, the top management of the Football Association, former coaches and many players have been taken away on suspicion of gambling, while the referee, a key player, seems to remain outside the storm.
For more than a hundred days, Chinese soccer has undergone a profound baptism in the storm, and all kinds of bad habits have been uprooted from youth soccer to professional soccer to the national team.
All this seems to indicate that Chinese soccer to really rise, still need to experience more wind and rain, in order to break the cocoon into a butterfly.
