After more than four months, the results of the investigation have finally surfaced, but like a pool of stagnant water, the waves are not alarming. An official of the Guangdong Sports Bureau revealed in an interview that although the results have been announced, it is not known when the specific notice will be published. I am still confused about the characterization of the final, whether it was a sham or a tacit agreement.
[The results of the punishment are hotly debated and trivialized as child's play]
After a long wait, the results of the punishment have finally been unveiled. According to "Guangzhou Team Magazine", the results of the investigation into the suspected match-fixing case at the Guangdong Provincial Games in August this year came as a surprise: the director of the Guangdong Provincial Sports Bureau was removed from his post, three were given serious warnings, and five were demoted. However, this news has not yet been officially confirmed, and official announcements and red-tape documents have yet to appear.
If this is the result of the punishment, it is undoubtedly a great irony. Such a major incident only resulted in the dismissal of the Director of the Sports Bureau, and the "dismissal" was not punitive. It is obvious that the game was a sham, but it was only characterized as a tacit agreement, which seems to be an evasion of the public eye.
Indeed, is it conceivable that all the participants in this provincial tournament would admit that the game was a fake? Does match-fixing really exist in this circle? Perhaps there is only relationship ball, tacit understanding ball, workplace ball and official ball. How can a prefecture-level city team dare to easily defeat a provincial capital city team? How can a prefecture-level city official be promoted in the future?
Chinese soccer desperately needs to clean up its environment
In fact, it is not only the Guangdong Provincial Games u15 men's soccer team in 2022 that has exploded with suspected match-fixing, but also other provincial Games where similar problems have occurred, not to mention the selection problems triggered by the Olympic women's soccer team's participation in the Games, which has directly led to the disgrace of China's women's soccer team at the Tokyo Olympics. All this shows that the ecological environment of Chinese soccer is in dire need of change!
Chinese soccer is bound by all sorts of rules and regulations and we have lost the original soccer. The Olympic team, the national team, the provincial team, the Asian team ...... Do you really play soccer? It all seems to depend on the day you are born, whether you meet a good age or not. Half of the success in the Chinese soccer arena seems to belong only to those lucky ones.
As for our youth training and growth mechanism, it is the lack of a mature, regular growth environment. Is there any hope for Chinese soccer? No. If we want to reform, how to start? Perhaps, from the provincial games soccer competition mechanism to start, improve the rules, is to let the children from childhood to learn the right way to good soccer.
