Du Zhaocai was detained for half a month, and the Li Tie controversy seemed to be coming to an end, however, with the rekindling of the Chinese Super League, the Li Tie incident has set off waves again. A number of journalists broke the news that former international soccer player Gu Chao was suspected of being involved in a soccer betting scandal and has been arrested by the police, while former Suning Club executive Yin Chenglong has also mysteriously disappeared.
Gu Chao's arrest stems from his alleged operation of match-fixing in a 2019 Chinese Super League match between Jiangsu Suning and Shanghai Shenhua. Notably, the case is unrelated to the gambling cases of Jin Jingdao and Qin Sheng, whose gambling behavior has been reported by the media. In fact, even though the era of gold-dollar soccer is coming to an end, players are still earning good money.
According to reporters, the clues to the arrests of Gu Chao and Yin Chenglong came from Shenhua's former chairman Wu Xiaohui. Back then, despite having a strong foreign aid lineup and home field advantage, Jiangsu Suning unexpectedly lost to Shanghai Shenhua, which was on a nine-game winning streak at the time, raising many questions. Gu Chao, who was Suning's goalkeeper, put in an amateurish performance against a shot from Shenhua's foreign aid man Moreno.
After the match, both the media and Jiangsu fans were convinced that it was a fake game. However, whether it was a match-fixing or not needs to be further investigated. Once confirmed, Shanghai Shenhua will surely face heavy punishment. Let's not forget that in the last round of soccer anti-corruption action, Shanghai Shenhua was stripped of the championship trophy and deducted points for bribing referees.
As soccer corruption continues to fester and the top echelon of the Football Association is scarce, the Shanghai men's basketball team and the Jiangsu men's basketball team have been penalized by the Basketball Association just for tacitly agreeing to play the ball. Against this backdrop, the FA is bound to severely punish teams suspected of match-fixing. Gu Chao was caught, Suning and Shenhua battle allegedly fake, we still need to wait for the official investigation results. After all, Shanghai Shenhua, a giant in the Chinese Super League, will not easily repeat the same mistake.
Li Tie incident continues to ferment, the Chinese Football Association urgently convened a meeting of anti-corruption and integrity. Reporter Zhao Yu revealed that the meeting was chaired by the Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Committee Yan Zhanhe, the newly established working group Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Committee Yuan Yongqing has also been in contact with the staff of the Football Association. This shows that the Football Association will focus on strengthening discipline. If any team is suspected of playing fake football, it will be severely punished. What do you think about this? Feel free to leave your comments and share your thoughts in the comments section!
