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Former Shanghai footballers on trial for bribery
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April 25, 2012, Wednesday
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Four former soccer stars of the Shanghai International Football Club today stood trial for bribery in the Shenyang Intermediate People's Court in northeast China's Liaoning Province.
Shen Si, Qi Hong, Li Ming and Jiang Jin, all former Chinese national team members, are accused of taking bribes to fix a match during the 2002/03 Jia-A League.
Shanghai International lost 2-1 to Tianjin Teda in the game. The result sent their crosstown rival Shanghai Shenhua to the league title and prevented Tianjin from being relegated.
Sources said that the four players received bribes totaling 8 million yuan (US$1.27 million).
At the same time, the former Chinese soccer chief credited with leading the Chinese team into their only World Cup finals was put on bribery trial in Tieling, another city in Liaoning this morning.
Nan Yong, the former director of the Chinese Football Administrative Center, stood trial on multiple charges of bribe-taking, one day after his predecessor Xie Yalong faced court in Dandong, another Liaoning city.
The 50-year-old Nan, named as a vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association at the age of 35, was instrumental in China's only appearance in the World Cup finals as he hired Serbian coach Bora Milutinovic despite voices of opposition and oversaw the qualifying campaign as the team's chef de mission.
Nan was arrested in 2010 with his associates Yang Yimin and Zhang Jianqiang, who had been sentenced in February's bribery trials to 10 1/2 years and 12 years in prison respectively.
The court will release the indictment against Nan to the press late in the day.
In Dandong, Li Dongsheng, the former head of the CFA's referees committee, faced charges of bribery and embezzlement today.
Shen Si, Qi Hong, Li Ming and Jiang Jin, all former Chinese national team members, are accused of taking bribes to fix a match during the 2002/03 Jia-A League.
Shanghai International lost 2-1 to Tianjin Teda in the game. The result sent their crosstown rival Shanghai Shenhua to the league title and prevented Tianjin from being relegated.
Sources said that the four players received bribes totaling 8 million yuan (US$1.27 million).
At the same time, the former Chinese soccer chief credited with leading the Chinese team into their only World Cup finals was put on bribery trial in Tieling, another city in Liaoning this morning.
Nan Yong, the former director of the Chinese Football Administrative Center, stood trial on multiple charges of bribe-taking, one day after his predecessor Xie Yalong faced court in Dandong, another Liaoning city.
The 50-year-old Nan, named as a vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association at the age of 35, was instrumental in China's only appearance in the World Cup finals as he hired Serbian coach Bora Milutinovic despite voices of opposition and oversaw the qualifying campaign as the team's chef de mission.
Nan was arrested in 2010 with his associates Yang Yimin and Zhang Jianqiang, who had been sentenced in February's bribery trials to 10 1/2 years and 12 years in prison respectively.
The court will release the indictment against Nan to the press late in the day.
In Dandong, Li Dongsheng, the former head of the CFA's referees committee, faced charges of bribery and embezzlement today.
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