After Li Tie was taken away and kept silent for many hours, the news came out like a volcanic eruption. Finally, he softened his attitude under immense pressure and tried to exonerate himself by revealing the crime. He revealed that Zhang Lu, a former national team goalkeeper and now captain of the Shenzhen club, an active big fish, has also been caught up in the storm of the investigation.
It turned out that Zhang Lu was taken away for investigation because of his alleged involvement in a match-fixing scheme orchestrated by Li Tie. This incident occurred in the 2019 Chinese Super League relegation battle, Wuhan against Tianhai, and Li Tie had intervened before the match. The news was like a bolt from the blue, shocking countless fans, and for the first time, the Chinese Super League match-fixing scandal was uncovered. Fans have called on Li Tie to continue to expose, in order to completely clean up the soccer circle "rotten shrimp".
Meanwhile, former naturalized foreign aid of the national football team, Elkeson, also exposed another crime of Li Tie. He revealed that Li Tie banned the naturalized players from playing at the same time and put the blame on Guangzhou Evergrande's head coach Cannavaro, saying that Luo Guofu and Alan had physical problems and could only play half the game. This comment further reveals the reason why the national soccer team is struggling to achieve good results.
In order to raise funds and increase the value of the signed players, Li Tie did not hesitate to bench the naturalized players that the country spent hundreds of millions of dollars to bring in. In the first 12 qualifiers, he promoted four players from his old boss Wuhan Zall to the national team in one go, resulting in the naturalized players not being able to play at the same time, which in turn affected their motivation. This explains why new coach Li Xiaopeng refused to return to the national team.
Li Tie caused the national team to lose for his personal interests and indirectly made the national soccer team miss the World Cup. How can the national soccer team develop with such a manager? How is this different from losing on purpose?
Obviously, Li Tie's strength alone is difficult to set off such a huge wave. He can't manipulate the national soccer team by himself, and there must be pushers behind him. Although no one in the FA was involved in Li Tie's illegal behavior, the decision to appoint the club manager as the head coach of the national team is ridiculous in itself. After investing huge sums of money in naturalized players, they did not get Li Tie's reuse, but the Association turned a deaf ear to this, allowing Li Tie to do whatever he wanted. It can be said that the Association can not escape the blame.
So Li Tie is not alone in kicking up this storm. In addition to the players involved in the match-fixing, there is also Li Tie and the goalkeepers, but obviously much more than that. I am sure that more players or coaches will be exposed. However, this is not what fans expect. What fans expect is that all the "rotten shrimps" will be removed, whether they are active players or senior officials of the Football Association, all of them will be subject to a thorough cleanup, so as to change the ecological environment of Chinese soccer, so that the national soccer team can regain hope and embark on the right path.
