Du Zhaocai, the former "head" of the Chinese Football Association (hereinafter referred to as "CFA"), has now been formally arrested. With the conclusion of the preliminary hearing, he will usher in a harsh legal trial. Since 2017, Du Zhaocai took charge of the Football Association, the years are like a shuttle, the whole six spring and autumn has passed. The former brilliant "head", but now deep in prison. Behind all kinds of events, all reveal the sadness; and it is like Du Zhaocai such as the existence of the Chinese soccer has left a wound that can not be healed.
In the hot summer of 2017, Du Zhaocai was parachuted into the position of a hand of the Football Association. At that time, Cai Zhenhua's influence is weakening, Du Zhaocai logically became the actual "head" of the Football Association. At the beginning of his tenure, Du Zhaocai carried out a drastic reform of the controversial "transfer fee" system. Not only did he not relax his control over the clubs, but he also increased the penalties and filled in every loophole of the transfer fee system, making it impossible for the clubs to get rid of this "heavy tax".
To 2020, Guangzhou Evergrande, Beijing Guoan, Tianjin Tianhai and other clubs to the Football Association to pay a total of more than 1.5 billion yuan of corrective fees, once became Du Zhaocai's "treasury". However, this huge amount of money of unknown origin has now become a pile of "bad debt". The destination of the money, how to get back, has become a difficult to solve the puzzle. Obviously, this is a great challenge to the "bad governance" of Du Zhaocai at that time. Ironically, all this seems to foretell the end of Du Zhaocai.
In addition, Du Zhaocai at the helm of the Football Association, the Chinese Super League also ushered in three years of chaos. "Every year there is a new policy", Du Zhaocai tried to create a "national team to participate in the professional league", but also wanted to create a "national training team", and even forced the selection of players from various teams. During the tournament, military training was conducted to form the so-called "U25 national team". All of these so-called new policies have ended in failure, but they have dealt a devastating blow to the Chinese Super League standings and the confidence of sponsors. In fact, over the years, the Chinese Super League, although still in the "Golden Dollar Era", has gradually begun to decline.
In the summer of 2019, Chen Xuyuan officially joined the Football Association, Du Zhaocai's monopoly in the Association declared an end. For a time, there was a situation where Chen Xuyuan was inside and Du Zhaocai was outside. However, despite the fact that the two men agreed on the surface, they actually fought behind the scenes, either explicitly or implicitly. In order to consolidate his own authority in the Association, Du Zhaocai even went so far as to expand the already too large power structure of the Association, and deployed his "allies" to attack Chen Xuyuan. So far, the Football Association has been completely reduced to Du, Chen two people compete with each other in the field of fame and fortune. People can't help but ask, how much charm is left in soccer?
However, all of the above is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Du Zhaocai's greatest damage to Chinese soccer.In 2019, China's national Olympic team sparked an uproar when they failed to beat Vietnam at home. It was later revealed that the national team selection was manipulated by the organization and turned into a transfer of benefits. As Du Zhaocai, who controlled the selection of youngsters at the time, he naturally became a target. This is the act of destroying the foundation of Chinese soccer, and Du Zhaocai can not shirk his responsibility.
