The Chinese Football Association (CFA) requires all its employees to watch a four-episode anti-corruption docuseries aired by CCTVthe state television network of the Asian giant, and write a reflection of at least 1,500 words on the topic.
The notice of CFA to its workers, which was broadcast last weekend, asks employees to watch the series “on time” and present their reflections before 3:00 pm local time on Thursday, January 11 , some local media reported today.
For their part, the players of the national team, are currently focused on taste for arguing the next edition of Asia Cupand the soccer players of the under-20 team, summoned for the category’s continental tournament, must also view the docuseries at the request of the country’s highest soccer organization, but they are free to express their reflections about here.
The series, titled ‘Integratedly Promote the Three Immortals’, focuses on several cases of corruption in the Chinese football sector, including Du Zhaocaiformer deputy director of General Administration of Sports of China; Chen Xuyuan, past president of CFA; and Li Tieformer coach of the men’s national soccer team China.
The final episode of the series, which aired this Tuesday under the title ‘Continue to advance deep’, caused a great impact both inside and outside the world of football and on the country’s social networks, which is in fact another “educational warning” about anti-corruption content for the entire industry according to CFA.
The documentary, produced by Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCID)the powerful anti-corruption body of Communist Party of China (CPC)and the National Supervision Commission, China’s main authority on State affairs, focused on a series of corruption cases in various sectors of the Asian country’s society.
In November 2022, with the initiation of a disciplinary investigation into Li Tiehas begun a series of investigations that have uncovered other cases of corruption and bribery in football at the Asian giants.
Since then, nearly 20 senior officials in the sector have been under investigation, such as the president of the Chinese Football Super League (CSL), Liu Junwhich caused discomfort among Chinese fans, who were increasingly unhappy with their national team.
The sports leader Song Kaiwho was appointed CFA president in October, announced at the start of his tenure that he would seek to make the federation, which has been plagued by persistent corruption charges, “more open and transparent”.
After coming to power in 2012, the current general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and president of the country, Xi Jinpingbegan an anti-corruption campaign in which several high-ranking Chinese officials were convicted of accepting millions in bribes.
Source: La Verdad
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