The Chinese soccer association (CFA) announced on Tuesday the creation of the first Referee Academy National in the country, in an attempt to restore arbitration credentials after years of corruption scandals. The initiative, published on the Federative Entity website, cooperated with the Provincial Sports Office of the province of Jiangsu (East) and the Sports Institute of the City of Nanjing, the capital of the said province.
The training center will seek to develop a reserve of high -Level members aligned with international standards, as well as improve the quality of arbitration through new training models, according to the statement, published Monday. “Developing a referee Academy is an important step to produce a quarry of high -level professionals,” said the President of the CFA, Song Kai.
For his part, Wu Bingcheng, president of the Nanjing agency, said the institution would contribute to the development of the academy as part of the national effort to survive football, while Liu Tong, representative of the Jiangsu office director, emphasized that the development of arbitration talent will be a priority in search for resulting results.
The latest case, last December
The announcement came in a context of strong scandal of Chinese football arbitration after decades of corruption scandals, the latest case was condemning December to six and a half years in prison and 200,000 yuan ($ 27,450, 26,300 euros) of fines in such a HA, former Director of CFA Referees Director Director.
Corruption cases returned to at least 2003, when international referee Gong Jianping was punished for 10 years in prison for accepting bribes to rise games during the 2000-01 period. His case was uncovered a list of eight colleges involved in a corruption framework known to China as ‘Black Whistles’, a term that refers to refere that sell farm decisions in exchange for money.
Despite efforts to eradicate fraud, in 2012 Lu Jun, it is considered for Asian giant fan as the best Chinese referee in history and known as the “gold whistle”, has been punished five and a half years in prison for receiving bribes to manipulate matches. Referees Huang Junjie, Zhou Weixin and Wan Daxue were also punished, with sentences up to seven years in prison.
The referee’s committee’s dome, that -splash
Arbitral corruption also dropped to the CFA’s referees’ committee committee. In 2012, his former director Zhang Jianqiang was punished for 12 years in prison for accepting bribes that have risen to parties. In addition, the former Vice President of the CFA Yang Yimin was punished by 10 and a half years for his role in the plot. Nan Yong, former Vice President of the CFA and leader of the Amaño scandal of parties with referees, received the same convincing.
Scandals affect the image of football in China and have reduced public interest in the local league, as fans follow European competitions enthusiastic. In recent times, the CFA has promised “more open and transparency” before many cases of corruption registered within its chest.
After his arrival in power in 2012, the current general secretary of the Communist Party of China (PCCH) and President of the country, Xi Jinping, began an anti -corruption campaign in which many high Chinese positions were convicted of receiving a millionaire bribe.
Source: La Verdad
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