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☆ China bans 43 soccer players and officials for life for match-fixing
  + stars: | 2024-09-10 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
CNN —The Chinese Football Association has banned for life 38 soccer players and five club officials after a two-year investigation into match-fixing and gambling, as part of a crackdown on corruption in one of China’s most popular sports. Power Sport Images/Getty Images/FileJin Jingdao during the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifier match between Australia and China on September 2, 2021 in Doha, Qatar. CFA President Song Kai said 43 of the 44 had been banned for life from football-related activities, and 17 others received five-year bans. The findings were announced ahead of a World Cup qualifier in Dalian later on Tuesday where Team China will host Saudi Arabia after last week’s 7-0 loss away to Japan. A former chairman of the CFA was sentenced to life in prison in March.
Persons: Zhang Xiaopeng, Jin Jingdao, Guo Tianyu, Gu Chao, Son, Mohamed Farag, Zhang, Song Kai Organizations: CNN, Chinese Football Association, Ministry of Public Security, Xinhua News Agency, Administration of Sport, CFA, Visual China, Getty, FC, AFC, China, men’s Locations: Dalian, China, South, Administration of Sport of China, South Korea, Hungary, Australia, Doha, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Japan
☆ China names Song Kai as new chairman of CFA
  + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
BEIJING, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Song Kai was named as the new chairman of the Chinese Football Association (CFA)，China's state news agency Xinhua reported on Monday, amid a spike in anti-corruption investigations into the soccer body. Song works as the director of Liaoning province's Sports Bureau, according to state media Global Times. Sun Wen, Yuan Yongqing, Yang Xu and Xu Jiren were named CFA vice presidents, Xinhua reported. China's top prosecutor said last week it had ordered the arrest of former CFA vice chairman Du Zhaocai, who was suspected of accepting bribes, state media previously reported. read moreOver a dozen officials working in the football sector have been placed under investigation since November last year, state media reported last week.
Persons: Kai, Sun Wen, Yuan Yongqing, Yang Xu, Xu Jiren, China's, Du Zhaocai, CFA Chen, Ella Cao, Liz Lee, Peter Rutherford Organizations: Chinese Football Association, Xinhua, Liaoning province's Sports, Global Times, CFA, Thomson Locations: BEIJING, Liaoning
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