GRAPHIC: The alleged match-fixing incident involving a youth team at the Guangdong Provincial Games had triggered a hot debate on the Internet.
Yan Zhanhe, executive committee member and secretary of the Discipline Inspection Committee of the CFA, took the lead in conveying the educational spirit of the national sports system on match discipline and anti-doping.
In his speech, Deputy Director Du Zhaocai emphasized that match discipline and anti-doping are the lifeline and high-pressure line of sports work, and are crucial to the shaping of the professional ethos of soccer. He called on all soccer practitioners to deeply understand General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on soccer reform, recognize the importance of match discipline and anti-doping work to the soccer career, raise political awareness, unify their thoughts, and take decisive measures to combat the phenomenon of "fake gambling and blackmail" in the field of soccer with a problem-oriented approach, so as to create a good soccer atmosphere and promote the healthy development of the football career. The team will raise the political awareness and unify the ideas, take the problem-oriented and decisive measures to crack down on the phenomenon of "fake gambling and black" in the field of soccer, create a good soccer atmosphere and promote the healthy development of soccer.
Du Zhaocai particularly pointed out that the match style and discipline and doping problems, especially the "fake gambling and black" problem, is a concentrated manifestation of the unhealthy style of the soccer profession, is a tumor that hinders the healthy development of the soccer cause. To deeply analyze the causes of the problem, enhance the sense of urgency and sense of mission, strengthen the overall leadership of the party, deepen the ideological and political education of the soccer profession, establish a long-term mechanism, comprehensively carry out self-examination and self-correction, and increase the intensity of discipline and accountability, and go all out to ensure the effectiveness of the match style and anti-doping work, to meet the twentieth CPC National Congress with practical actions.
Chen Xuyuan, the president of CFA, pointed out in his speech that the current soccer profession's match style and discipline problems have seriously harmed the healthy development of soccer and the image of the country, distorted the moral values that soccer should have, and have come to a point where they must be rectified. He asked all soccer practitioners to raise awareness, implement responsibilities, self-examination and self-correction, strict discipline, the establishment of a blacklist system, serious treatment of all kinds of violations, sound management norms, and jointly contribute to the healthy development of Chinese soccer, with a good professional ethos to meet the party's twentieth congress.
The meeting was presided over by Sun Wen, Vice President of CFA. More than 500 people, including the executive committee of the CFA, the head of the preparatory group, the heads of committees, the heads of secretariat departments, the leaders of member associations, the heads of competitions and referees, the general managers, team leaders and head coaches of clubs at all levels of professional leagues, as well as the persons in charge of the Chinese Championship, Futsal and Beach Soccer Leagues, etc. participated in the meeting through online and offline forms.
Since 2009, China's soccer industry has been waging a storm against gambling and blackmail, which once ushered in a clean slate. However, in the past ten years, under the impetus of the golden dollar soccer, although the fake gambling and black incidents have been reduced, but not eradicated. Chen Xuyuan, chairman of the Football Association, frankly admitted in an interview with CCTV that there are still fake gambling and black behavior in soccer. Affected by the economic environment and the epidemic, the Chinese super investment reduction, fake gambling and black phenomenon has a "resurgence" signs, the federation has received three clubs suspected of playing fake football report, and has set up a joint investigation team to investigate.
The CFA held a national symposium on professional soccer match discipline and anti-doping work, which is both a warning and a statement: the Association will seriously deal with violations, will not go through the motions, and may take tough measures. Of course, the FA's investigation and evidence collection is limited to the field of soccer, further investigation requires the cooperation of public security and other departments.
