Chapter 21 G7 Actions Dissolved Invisibly

He remembers that line very clearly, and the same is true for Chinese football. It is really possible to change a lot of beautiful things overnight-"The land is so white and so clean." Many important histories are indeed changed because of some small details.For example, "11.17", such as the G7 revolution, they can actually be seen as originating from that accidental sliding tackle by Sun Xiang, or the penalty kick awarded by Zhou Weixin. Let us turn the time back to October 14, 2004, when the Chinese team challenged Kuwait, the most important opponent, in an away game. If Sun Xiang’s sliding tackle was successful, Zhongke would be tied, and then the Chinese team only needed to win 1-0 Hong Kong will qualify, and all the following things will not happen at all, Xu Mingye will not enter Guoan, Zhang Hai will not run wild in the fog, the Chinese team will not qualify for the two World Cups, and players will not be buried alive , Jianlibao team members were hunted down in the street.

But Sun Xiang's sliding shovel failed.He said it was because the lawn hadn't been watered.In all fairness, Sun Xiang did not lie. Domestic courts are generally sprinkled with water before the game. This is for the ball to run at a more uniform speed and to slide farther when tackling.Even in West Asian countries where water is very precious, some water is sprinkled on the lawn before the game.For unknown reasons, the lawn was not watered on October 14th.In the 48th minute, the Kuwaiti striker dribbled the ball forward from the right. This was a breakthrough without too much threat. Sun Xiangfei went down to the ground. Sun Xiang is not big, but he has a lot of speed and energy. Normally, he can slide five or six meters. The problem, however, is that on this day, the lawn was not watered...

So like someone installed a brake on his body, Sun Xiang stopped in an instant when he was sliding for more than two meters.The situation was quite weird. For a while, Sun Xiang was stunned, and the Kuwaiti striker was also stunned, but he didn't stop, and continued to dribble the ball to the baseline, crossed... and scored in the middle. This 0-1 due to a sliding shovel error will inevitably push the Chinese team to "11.17".We said in the previous chapters that the Chinese team worked hard to calculate the small points, but in fact, after Sun Xiang's sliding tackle, experienced people said that the Chinese team was dead.Because Kuwait and Malaysians are a kind of belief, and football exchanges are frequent. When the Chinese team lags behind in both goal difference and goal count, it is almost impossible to make a comeback. The reason is very strong. If the Chinese team dares to If you hit the Hong Kong team with 5 goals, Kuwait will definitely hit 6 goals.

Facts have proved that this pessimistic argument is very reasonable. The last performance of the Chinese team is actually creating a tragic funeral for themselves. Therefore, people with foresight will go ahead of the Chinese team, such as Xu Ming.Just after Sun Xiang's sliding tackle, Nan Yong, the vice chairman of the Football Association in Kuwait, the national team, and Chinese reporters all got the news: Xu Mingye joined Guoan and planned to hold a joint press conference to publicly announce his challenge to the Football Association. Because of that October, 2004 became the most explosive year in the political structure of Chinese football, because the various investors who are football capital tycoons can no longer tolerate the fake gambling of Chinese football.Although in fact, from the perspective of the club, they are also active participants in fake gambling, but they are also miserable because they cannot control this growing monster at all, and people understand that the Chinese football system is the the source of this situation.

Therefore, both Beijing Guoan and Dalian Shide regard "cutting out the cancer in football and changing the football system" as the most resounding slogan.In terms of skills, Xu Ming and Li Shilin believed that they had seized a great tactical opportunity, because the Chinese Football Association was currently in a stage of internal and external difficulties: internally, there were match-fixing, betting and black calls; externally, China defeated Kuwait.Fans across the country, the media and even senior leaders of the central government have expressed extreme dissatisfaction with the Chinese Football Association.

Two small details determine the G7 storm, one is Sun Xiang's sliding tackle, and the other is: as early as October 3, Beijing Guoan believed that the referee Zhou Weixin's penalty kick was unfair in the match with Shenyang Jinde, and retired on the spot. On the 14th, the Chinese Football Association fined Beijing Guoan 300,000 yuan and deducted 3 points.Beijing Guoan then announced that it might withdraw from the Chinese Super League, and Xu Ming came to the fore against this background. He also announced that he would support Beijing Guoan’s actions and would not rule out withdrawing from the Chinese Super League. Chinese football undergoes a thorough reform.

Regarding the motives of Xu Ming and Beijing Guoan, many people still have doubts until now, and we will have an in-depth discussion later.Now let me tell you the story of those days: 1. At 19:10 on the evening of October 5, Guoan announced its withdrawal from the Chinese Super League. 2. From October 5th to 14th, Beijing Guoan successively contacted the bosses of five clubs including Shide, Crown City, Luneng, Tianjin, and Liaoning to seek support. 3. At 19:45 on October 14, the Guoan Board of Directors made a decision not to accept the punishment of the Football Association on the grounds that "the Football Association violated procedures and the punishment decision was obviously inappropriate".Li Shilin called the bosses of the five clubs mentioned above, hoping to attend the press conference held by Guoan in the evening.

4. At 22:50 on October 14, Li Shilin, the vice chairman of CITIC, came to the club. 10 minutes later, Xu Ming appeared in the Guoan club.Guoan issued a proposal to call on 12 Chinese Super League clubs to urgently hold a league meeting. 5. At 23:30 on October 14, the Guoan Club officially held a press conference.Li Shilin expressed his refusal to accept the punishment results of the Football Association.Xu Ming clearly expressed Shide's attitude of fully supporting Guoan, and then pointed the finger at the Football Association. This action, which was originally intended to protest against the unfairness of the referee, has gradually become a storm to demand rights from the Football Association and change the Chinese football fake gambling system from the system.Of course, their revolutionary nature has been questioned, and opponents can easily produce evidence: such as the relationship between Dalian Shide and Sichuan Guancheng, Shenzhen Jianlibao and Liaoning Zhongyu.And this is a kind of match-fixing.

In the following chapters, we will explain in detail the rationality and absurdity of this storm, but the storm of that month has alarmed FIFA.Although the Chinese Football Association informed through relevant channels that this is just an extension of the strike, the international football world has regarded this as a signal of the reform of the Chinese football system.Its iconic events are: October 17th, "All revolutionary success should be from the top down". On October 17th, Xu Ming sat in his huge office on the 21st floor of the towering "Changfeng Center" in Shanghai, and released a series of revolutionary programmatic documents to the whole of China. Outdated system - "It's a revolution".Under the arrangement of Xu Ming, the relevant personnel of Shide Group spent more than ten hours to formulate 13 documents, involving 9 substantive contents with a total of 80,000 words: "Chinese Football Revolution Plan".

Please remember, this was exactly one month before "11.17", that is to say, after only one month of this revolution, Chinese football was completely dead, but on this day, the Chinese Football Association became very tough , using the rules of the Chinese official game, cleverly dispelled the actions of G7, which proves that the Chinese Football Association is not good on the court, but it is very good in the official arena. ... There is no need to describe what happened in that month in detail. Anyway, the storm failed inexplicably, and then "11·17", and then Zhang Hai was arrested because of the Jianlibao case, and Xu Zexian faded out because of business differences with the Sanlin Group. , In addition, there are voices from the top management of the central government that they are worried that this football storm will cause social unrest. This is very important, so G7 quickly withdrew from the stage.

The reason why we focus on the G7 storm in a book on counterfeiting and anti-crime is precisely because the G7 storm has an inseparable relationship with fake gambling gangs. They are part of it, but they are not the original sin, and they cannot bear it themselves. time to demand change.However, the Chinese Football Association and the General Administration of Sports, which have a strong administrative color, categorically rejected this request, because these two bureaucratic organizations must first ensure their own authority and interests, so they did not hesitate to use ostrich policy to resist. Before Zhang Hai was arrested, someone once asked him in private: "Have these associations of yours been involved in match-fixing, and have these bosses teamed up with gambling companies to gamble?" Zhang Hai replied: "There must be a tacit understanding of the associations. , I thought about joining forces with a gambling company, but after careful study, I found that this is not feasible, because the boss can't find the players in person, he has to go through the general manager, and the general manager has to find the coach who leads the team or the main force of the team. There are too many links , it is easy to leak information, and it costs money for each link. For example, winning a handicap can earn up to 10 million. After the above-mentioned links are divided, the boss earns only two to three million. Investing tens of millions in sports and only earning two or three million, this kind of high-risk and low-return investment is not feasible, I can swear that I have never dealt with gambling companies." Zhang Hai added: "Actually, after discussing a game to bet, you can't win 10 million at all, because the gambling company makes money by raking in money. A certain game in the handicap suddenly places an abnormal bet of 10 to 20 million. The dealer will raise the price very high, that is to say, if I invest 10 million, even if the result is correct, I can only win two to three million at most, plus the general manager, coaches, and players. The maximum amount in the game is 500,000, who will bet 10 million to win 500,000." I found people who are familiar with gambling to investigate related games, and the water head at that time was indeed as Zhang Hai said. This proves one point: it is not a cost-effective thing for club investors to fund gambling.In fact, those who arrange tacit balls like Zhang Hai just want to control the overall situation in the future, and they don't want to win like You Ke and Wang Po, because the cost is too high and the return is too small, and a slight mistake in the middle link will lead to a loss. Leaked. Some people have inquired about the Liaoning team, Dalian team, Sichuan team, etc., and the answers are similar.Of course, these people’s statements cannot be fully trusted, but they are enough to clarify what interests they want during the G7 storm. It is easy to condemn them morally, but we are more concerned about the truth. There are many match-fixing truths in the G7 storm: One day, the bosses of G7 were having a meeting in Beijing, and leagues were going on all over the place.Suddenly, Li Danyang, the titular boss of Sichuan Guancheng who was present at the meeting, connected a call from a subordinate far away in Chengdu. After listening to the report, Li Danyang said to Xu Ming, the real boss of Guancheng: "They found a mysterious person in the stands, holding a A computer, has been reporting the score to the outside, and said that it is not enough, and I need to play one more game, and soon, the score becomes 2 to 1, is this person sent by the dealer?" This game is the famous Sichuan Crown City VS Liaoning Zhongyu at home.Before the game, people generally believed that Zhang Hai, the real boss of the Liaoning team, would definitely order the Liaoning team to give up the soon-to-be-relegated Sichuan team out of friendship with Xu Ming. Sichuan.After a while, Li Danyang answered another call and said: "After the second half started, that person still said it wasn't enough, and then the score became Sichuan leading Liaoning 3-1."After a while, he said: "After that person said it was not enough, the two teams each scored a goal, and the score became 4-2." The G7 who were in the meeting stopped, and Li Danyang didn't turn off his mobile phone at all, just turned on the hands-free Let everyone listen, there are still breaking the news, and it is not enough, so the score changed from 4 to 2 to 4 to 3, then to 5 to 3, and finally fixed at 6 to 3! This was obviously a game of football. Both Xu Ming and Zhang Hai were so angry that they called and cursed at the coach who led the team. At the end of this story, the person concerned immediately contacted the Liaoning Provincial Sports Bureau, and the team was led by the Liaoning Provincial Sports Technology College. Zhou Tiemin, the deputy director of the Liaoning team, immediately made a decision to punish the relevant team members. At that time, "those with criminal records and key positions" were designated as key targets for breakthroughs, so Liu Jiansheng was finally locked in. He met the above three conditions.It was precisely because of this 6-3 that Liu Jiansheng became a vagrant. Later, he took drugs, got involved with the underworld, and was finally sentenced.But Liu Jiansheng is just a scapegoat for this big score, because he scored 9 goals in the game, obviously it cannot be controlled by a certain player, he is just a small role. This story was revealed in 2006. The person who revealed it did not know that in 2009 the crackdown on counterfeiting and corruption would have nothing to do with G7. He would not deliberately excuse a few irrelevant people. It tells the truth Yes: The famous 6-3 match was actually manipulated by the banker, and had nothing to do with G7, but G7 also had something to do with it. It must be that the banker knew that Zhang Hai was going to let Xu Ming go, and took advantage of the wind to make a move. The super big score came out, and it won a beautiful handicap like a storm, so 6 to 3 can also be called the result of the banker PK club owner. It vividly shows that what the G7 bosses want to do is the structure, what they want to play is the big market of football politics, while what the players and bookmakers want to do is money. Under the different goals of all parties, they created a game similar to table tennis. score. With this game, one of the main topics of the G7 bosses in the storm meeting was: mutual confirmation of each other's problem balls, which brought out a lot of tricky games from their respective teams.It's also a struggle, a struggle between the players and the owners. Things in between are: In the Shanghai Derby on the 17th, Wang Guolin punched and swollen Lu Jun's face because he suspected that he was unfair; there was also a battle in the lounge of the famous Lifan players - the 0-3 loss to Liaoning made the Lifan team very upset. After the game, the Lifan team When all the staff walked back to the waiting room, a defender had just sat down, and a striker went up and kicked him, angrily reprimanding him for his abnormal performance on the field. Fortunately, the foreign aid Domokos stopped in time, and the two sides avoided further troubles. Conflict escalates. A boss of G7 made it very clear at the time: "I have materials about a famous international footballer's match-fixing, and I will make it public when appropriate." But he didn't make it public because he himself is not clean. After "November 17", G7 entered a period of depression. They reluctantly held a "Changlong meeting" to express their anger at the inaction of the Football Association. It was Wang Guolin, the general manager of COSCO Club, who suddenly launched an attack: "We will catch a team in the last three rounds." A typical case of match-fixing and gambling!" Wang Guolin's speech was made in an environment with few transitional language.At that time, the investors already had a tacit agreement to jointly catch fake matches, and claimed that they had evidence of players kicking matches. Among them, the teams that believed to have misbehavior were Shenzhen and Tianjin, and some players of the two teams were in In the "Super Cup" game on August 22, a tacit score of 4 to 2 was played, which was consistent with the rumors before the game; in return, Shenzhen Jianlibao team lost 0 to 1 in the Chinese Super League on October 31. The Tianjin team also matched the rumors before the game.Due to accidental factors, the investors also got a tape of the "trading" of players from both sides, which proved that these two games were indeed two abnormal games.Zhang Hai also announced that he has a piece of evidence of international football betting in his hand, which will be announced in due course. Before Zhang Hai was arrested, the last time he appeared in a prominent position in the newspaper was this news: "Is it Zhang Hai? Be careful! Please don't meddle in business and talk nonsense recently, it won't do you any good if you talk too much!" At noon on November 11, Zhang who had just returned to downtown Guangzhou Hai received such an anonymous phone call.Afterwards, Zhang Hai learned that it was the "banker" who called, and the recording material mentioned earlier alarmed the "underground banker", who suspected that Zhang Hai had exposed the inside story. Zhang Hai asked: "Who are you, why are you talking to me like this?" The other party finally pointed out: "Don't talk nonsense to the outside world, it is not good for you or me if you talk too much, and your personal safety cannot be guaranteed. We will Anything can come from the ball, I advise you not to ask for trouble. Besides, this is none of your business!" The threatening phone call just hung up, and another call came in. It turned out that a member of the Shenzhen Jianlibao team saw the article After the report, he expressed his views to Zhang Hai and eagerly stated that he was not involved in this matter. On the day when several players’ involvement in gambling was exposed, Tianjin Master Kong was still on vacation, Zhang Yifeng, general manager of TEDA Club, said that day: “If they have evidence, let them sue, we would like to declare that TEDA Club will reserve the right to pursue the case. "But Tianjin TEDA has never used the right to pursue. Lifan boss Yin Mingshan even exposed his family scandal on CCTV. When he was a guest on "News Meeting Room", he admitted: "Some team members have already written to the club the materials of exposing and explaining their participation in betting and match-fixing." After Lifan had a series of strange matches some time ago, Lifan Club launched an investigation in private. In fact, these materials involved many players. Chen Hong, the executive vice president of the club, also said that if the judiciary can intervene, then these materials may also be submitted to the judicial organs as evidence. .However, there has been no judicial intervention for these materials. G7 is doomed to fail. On the eve of the failure, it was a confrontational scene: it was a foggy night, Xu Ming and Zhang Hai went straight from Beijing to Xianghe, where Luo Ning was waiting for them to start. The last meeting is to study how to use the last force to drive Yan Shiduo out; and there is another meeting in Xianghe, the local sports bureaus and football associations are preparing to launch the final blow to G7, and issue a basic regulation of the Chinese Super League to restrict Xu Ming , Luo Ning, Zhang Hai's professional league. That night, news from high-level officials said that the leadership was very dissatisfied with Yan Shiduo and was now looking for a successor.At Guoan Xianghe base, Luo Ning, Xu Ming and Zhang Hai were very happy. They believed that although G7 failed (but they never used this word, they thought it was a strategic retreat), driving away Yan Shiduo was also a victory. As a result, salary cuts and suspension of relegation were basically established.In particular, salary cuts are what these bosses really want to see. It was the end of 2004, and the new year soon turned to Zhang Hai. Immediately after Zhang Hai was arrested, G7 went their separate ways, some withdrew, and some reluctantly supported. There was a rare heavy snowfall in the new year. Xu Ming suddenly remembered that at the beginning of this storm, that is, on the night of October 16, 2004, he went to the Shanghai Grand Theater to watch a dance drama. I remember a line very clearly, and the same is true of Chinese football. It is really possible to change many beautiful things overnight-"The land is so white and so clean."