{"id":1265,"date":"2024-12-14T17:11:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T14:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/china-sentences-ex-epl-soccer-star-to-20-years-for-bribery-match-fixing\/"},"modified":"2024-12-14T17:11:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T14:11:29","slug":"china-sentences-ex-epl-soccer-star-to-20-years-for-bribery-match-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/china-sentences-ex-epl-soccer-star-to-20-years-for-bribery-match-fixing\/","title":{"rendered":"China Sentences Ex-EPL Soccer Star to 20 Years for Bribery, Match-Fixing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_34 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Tabla de contenidos<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1'><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/china-sentences-ex-epl-soccer-star-to-20-years-for-bribery-match-fixing\/#Premier_League\" title=\"Premier League\">Premier League<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/china-sentences-ex-epl-soccer-star-to-20-years-for-bribery-match-fixing\/#Xis_Plan_for_Soccer\" title=\"Xi\u2019s Plan for Soccer\">Xi\u2019s Plan for Soccer<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>Li Tie, the former Everton player and coach of China\u2019s national soccer team,\u00a0was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday by a court in Wuhan for bribery and match fixing, Chinese state media reports.<\/p>\n<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-338635\" data-style=\"width: 1003px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-338635\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Li-858x524.jpg\" alt=\"Li Tie, Chinese soccer, corruption, bribery, Everton, EPL\" width=\"1003\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Li-858x524.jpg 858w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Li-430x263.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Li.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1003px) 100vw, 1003px\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"text-description\">Li Tie, above, back when he coached the Chinese national soccer team. The former Everton player expressed his regret at \u201cchoosing the wrong path\u201d in an interview on state television in January. Today, he was told he would spend the next 20 years in prison. (Image: AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Prosecutors accused Li of receiving more than 50 million yuan (US$6.8 million) in bribes between 2019 and 2021 when he was in charge of the national team. In return, he would select certain players for the China squad and help certain teams to win competitions, according to state media.<\/p>\n<p>He was also accused of fixing games for the two clubs he coached in Chinese leagues between 2015 and 2019 and of offering a bribe to gain the job as national team coach.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Premier_League\"><\/span><strong>Premier League<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Li Tie is one of just five Chinese nationals to have appeared in the English Premier League and one of just two who played regularly in a first team.<\/p>\n<p>The defensive midfielder was part of an Everton side that included a young Wayne Rooney and finished seventh in the 2002-03 season. At international level, Li made 92 appearances for the\u00a0China national team, scoring six goals.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Li was featured in a documentary on Chinese state television about corruption in domestic soccer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"main-blockquote\">\n<p>\u201c\u2018m very sorry. I should have kept my head to the ground and followed the right path,\u201d he said, as translated by the BBC. \u201cThere were certain things that at the time were common practices in football.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAchieving success through such improper means actually made me increasingly shortsighted and eager for quick results,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt became a habit, and eventually, I even started to rely on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Xis_Plan_for_Soccer\"><\/span><strong>Xi\u2019s Plan for Soccer<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping is a big soccer fan. In 2015, he pledged to turn China into a superpower of the sport that would one day lift the World Cup. But if anything, the national team has regressed since then, despite billions being poured into the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing blames <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/chinese-soccer-player-spill-beans-on-match-fixing-epidemic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">widespread corruption<\/a> \u2013 including Li\u2019s alleged sale of international caps to the highest bidder \u2013 for holding back Chinese soccer.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2023, Chen Xuyuan, the former head of China\u2019s official soccer association, was\u00a0sentenced to life in prison\u00a0for accepting bribes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In September, 43 professional players and officials were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/china-soccer-purges-60-players-officials-in-corruption-probe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">banned for life<\/a> from the game and 17 more received five-year suspensions. That followed a two-year investigation that uncovered widespread online gambling, match fixing, and bribery, according to Chinese authorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The move came a week after China\u2019s national team suffered one of the most humiliating defeats in its history, a 7-0 loss to Japan, one of its biggest sporting and geopolitical rivals.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese national team currently sits bottom of its World Cup qualifying group.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/china-sentences-ex-epl-soccer-star-to-20-years-for-bribery-match-fixing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">China Sentences Ex-EPL Soccer Star to 20 Years for Bribery, Match-Fixing<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Casino.org<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Li Tie, the former Everton player and coach of China\u2019s national soccer team,\u00a0was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday by a court in Wuhan for bribery and match fixing, Chinese state media reports. Li Tie, above, back when he coached the Chinese national soccer team. The former Everton player expressed his regret at \u201cchoosing <a href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/china-sentences-ex-epl-soccer-star-to-20-years-for-bribery-match-fixing\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}