Chapter 29 Behind Fan Guangming's Football Association's gambling inside story

The case he involved is not as simple as the Singapore football gambling case. As a former official of the Chinese Football Association, Fan Guangming has participated in many major actions of Chinese football. If there is any illegal behavior in it, it will inevitably involve higher figures. It is very difficult to completely restore the character of Fan Guangming. Before the accident, Fan Guangming was an obscure name for Chinese fans.Like the many departments of the Chinese Football Association in Dongjiu Building, Zhang San, Li Si, Wang Xiaoer, Fan Guangming... are all dubbed the titles of "Chinese Football Association officials", and they have nothing to do with Chinese football. and important relationships.After the accident, Fan Guangming, who was wearing a "yellow vest", just flashed across the TV screen, and still couldn't bring back any more memories from the fans.

On October 29, 2009, Air China flight CA1475 landed smoothly at Wuhan Tianhe Airport.Fan Guangming and his colleague Liu Xifu got off the plane, and were received very warmly by the staff of Wuhan Football Association before leaving the airport. He and Liu Xifu, deputy director of the league department, were the leaders of the organizing committee for the National Amateur Football League Finals held in Wuhan at the end of October, supervising the match on the spot.When the leader came, the Wuhan Football Association instructed to "grandly welcome".But after arriving in Wuhan, Fan Guangming didn't have much time to rest and enjoy the "grand reception". He and Liu Xifu immediately called a team meeting to make arrangements. On the 30th, after the start of the game, the organizing committee held a meeting to issue relevant punishments due to individual players of a Beijing amateur team violating discipline on the court.Subsequent matches in the Wuhan Division went very smoothly. On November 5th, the competition ended.

However, on November 3, the last match day, Lao Fan "disappeared". At noon that day, Lao Fan had already packed his luggage, and when he was going to have lunch, he answered a phone call and went downstairs to wait for someone. Then he came back for a while, and said to the people in the organizing committee around him: "I have something to do when I go out, you Take care of my luggage." This was Fan Guangming's last "instruction" received by the organizing committee. Shortly after Fan Guangming left the hotel, his mobile phone was turned off, and then "disappeared".Wuhan immediately contacted the Chinese Football Association, but did not know what happened.Later, the Football Association learned through some channels that the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Department sent people to take Fan Guangming away from Wuhan.

At that time, the "anti-gambling storm" had already involved many people, but as an official of the Football Association, Fan Guangming was the first.It was not until several days after he was taken away that the media timidly reported a few words: Fan Guangming is from Shenyang. Before 2004, he worked in the Chinese Football Association, responsible for competition and development. During this period, he accumulated relevant experience in team management and development. At the beginning of 2004, Fan served as the deputy general manager of the Singapore Xinqi Club. Since then, the Singapore league gambling case was exposed.At that time, there was no news that Fan Guangming was related to the case. After Fan returned to China, he continued to work in the Chinese Football Association.

After the final of the National Football Amateur League (Southern Region) in October 2009, Fan Guangming, an official of the League Department of the Chinese Football Association, presented the award as a leader. Knowing that Fan Guangming was taken away, the officials of the Chinese Football Association were not surprised, but responded lightly: "It should be related to the gambling in Singapore." At the end of 2009, the reserve team of Beijing Guoan, the new champion of the Chinese Super League, accepted the invitation of the Singapore Football Association and will soon go there to participate in the Singapore League.

This is already the fourth time that the Chinese team has traveled to Singapore.I have to say that Singapore is definitely an ominous place for Chinese football. In 1982, the Chinese team was only one step away from entering the World Cup in Singapore.In the final match of the World Cup qualifiers, the Chinese men's football team lost 1-2 to the New Zealand team in Singapore. Seven years later, the Chinese team fell here again on the way to the World Cup. In October 1989, in the final of the top six in the Asian region in Singapore, the team led by Gao Fengwen suffered two "black 3 minutes" and missed the World Cup again.

What is even more frightening is that in 2004, a shocking tragedy happened to the Chinese team Xinqi team participating in the league in Singapore. On March 10, 2004, the Xinqi team practiced as usual at the JURONG Stadium in the west of Singapore. After a brief warm-up, the coach arranged for the team to play.At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the sky became cloudy, and then there was a muffled thunder, which just hit Jiang Tao's shoulder.Jiang Tao, who was struck by lightning, immediately fell on the grass, with his face facing the blue sky and his limbs stretched out.When his teammates saw this, they all ran over to treat him, but after touching his nostrils, he was no longer breathing.A few minutes later, emergency teams rushed to the scene, but after testing breathing and blood pressure, doctors declared Jiang Tao dead.Jiang Tao was struck to death by lightning, which shocked the entire football world at that time.

In the 2005 season, the Chinese team Xinqi team withdrew from the Singapore League for financial reasons.In 2007, another Chinese team, Liaoning Guangyuan, participated in the Singapore League. At that time, the head coach of the Liaoning Guangyuan team was Wang Xin.The Guangyuan team's performance in the 2007 season was quite different from the initial warm-up match. Soon, the team was found to be involved in gambling.The general manager Wang Xin was the first to be arrested and fled after paying a bail of 80,000 SGD.At that time, the police did not want Wang Xin to be released on bail, but his attorney won the opportunity for Wang Xin on the grounds that human rights should be respected.He then fled back home.

We can be sure that after many years, history will give Wang Xin an accurate position.This "little fish and shrimp" of Chinese football is absolutely of great significance as a strategic turning point in the history of Chinese football's anti-counterfeiting and anti-gambling campaign.The process of Wang Xin's arrest and the subsequent course of events are extremely exciting. Report: At the end of 2008, the Singapore police issued a red arrest warrant for Wang Xin to Interpol, requesting assistance from China. At the beginning of 2009, the Ministry of Public Security, based on the "Red Notice" and relevant requests, deployed the public security organs of Liaoning Province to assist in the investigation of Wang Xin's illegal manipulation of football matches in Singapore.The task force captured Wang Xin in Shenyang in April 2009 after careful deployment, meticulous organization and painstaking work.

According to the person in charge of the special case team, during the investigation of Wang Xin's manipulation of football match-fixing in Singapore, the public security organs discovered that he was also manipulating individual football matches in China through commercial bribery and other means.According to the clues they had, the police followed the clues and uncovered the shady scenes of some matches in the domestic league. So far, we have to be grateful to Singapore, the former "haunted house" of Chinese football.If it weren't for the "red arrest warrant", Wang Xin would not have been arrested; if it hadn't been for Wang Xin's arrest, there would have been no such vigorous anti-gambling and anti-crime storm in Chinese football since the end of 2009.Let's tease out the beginnings of this storm in simple words:

On October 16, Zhong Guojian, the former general manager of Guangdong Eagles, was first controlled by the Liaoning police who went south --- kicked off the landing of the "anti-gambling storm" in southern Guangdong; On October 19, Yang Xu, an official of the Guangzhou Football Association who served as the acting general manager and team leader of Guangzhou Pharmaceuticals in 2006, was arrested on suspicion of bribery; On November 6, Lu Dong, a hero of the Liaozu Ten Champions, was taken away by the police; On November 6, Fan Guangming, an official of the Chinese Football Association in charge of business affairs, was asked by the Liaoning police to assist in the investigation; On November 7, the media reported that former Kinder coach Ding Zhe was taken away by the police for investigation; On November 7, former Guangzhou Pharmaceutical executives went north to assist in the sweeping of gambling, and the depth of the investigation was extended to nearly 6 years; On November 10, the former Xiamen assistant coach admitted that there were ghosts in 11 games, and confessed that he had dropped the ball before the game when he was in Chengdu; On November 11, You Ke was exposed for the fake scenes, and personally finalized the main lineup for the key battle; On November 12, the media revealed that Wang Po was arrested, and the anti-gambling made a breakthrough; On November 13, the Dalian gambling gang confessed that Lu Dong was the banker; On November 13, Yu Ke was arrested on suspicion of gambling crimes; On November 16, the media reported that the anti-gambling Qingdao made a breakthrough, and the former Hailifeng team leader was detained; On November 18, Leng Bo, the former main striker of the Shandong team in the A-A era, was detained; On November 22, the media reported that the police caught gambling and blacklisted 100 people; On November 25, the police announced the preliminary situation of the anti-gambling case, 16 people were suspected of manipulating the game; On November 25th, the public security organ disclosed the truth about counterfeiting for the first time, and the suspect has been detained; On December 11, the public security agency announced new developments in anti-gambling, Chengdu Chongchao was involved in fakes, Xu Hongtao and You Ke were arrested, and Liu Hongwei was detained; ... Back to Fan Guangming, he is by no means a big fish, he is just a shrimp in that unit.The officials of the Chinese Football Association were not surprised by Fan Guangming's arrest. Some people were surprised, but they were actually pretending. Until Fan Guangming’s accident, Wang Jinhui, the general manager of Xinqi Company, his partner in Singapore, still insisted that Fan Guangming was a good person: “It’s too unexpected! Lao Fan is definitely a dedicated and good person. Something happened." In 2005, Xinqi Company operated a group of players to come to Singapore to play in the league. They invited Fan Guangming to help manage the team and serve as the company's deputy general manager. In fact, Fan Guangming is one of the team's controllers.Later, because the sponsors' sponsorship funds were often not in place, and even investors' phone calls were often unable to get through, the players began to get emotional about wages and bonuses, and their performance plummeted.According to Wang Jinhui's recollection, in order to pay the players' wages at that time, Fan Guangming put all his annual income in it, and he didn't get a penny. "Old Fan really paid too much, calmed down many things, and controlled many things, otherwise someone from that team would have to be arrested in 2005." However, some people did not agree with Wang Jinhui's words. During the Asian Cup in 2000, Wang Jinhui established a relationship with the Chinese Football Association. He used the reason of helping Chinese football reporters to book a room and became the head of the tour group of the Chinese football journalists who actually interviewed the team at that time.Later, because of the high housing prices, Wang Jinhui had conflicts with many reporters at the time.It was at that time that Wang Jinhui managed many relationships with the Chinese Football Association, and also laid the initial foundation for the relationship between Chinese football and the Singapore League.Therefore, in the eyes of many Chinese footnotes, Wang Jinhui's words are not very credible. In fact, in 2004, the Xinqi team had rumors of match-fixing and dismissed 5 Chinese players. This matter even made a fuss about FIFA. In 2007, Fan Guangming came to Singapore again, this time he cooperated with Wang Xin and Ding Zhe.This is also doomed that Fan Guangming will eventually have contact with "gambling".However, people felt more sympathy for Fan Guangming.Many football people in Shenyang couldn't help sighing: "Lao Fan's family is ruined, it's too miserable!" In 2004, Fan Guangming's beloved son was suffering from leukemia. It was against this background that Fan Guangming decided to accept Xinqi's invitation and take his son to Singapore.In the best private hospital in Singapore, Fan Guangming's son underwent bone marrow transplantation. Although the operation was successful, he relapsed soon after.This treatment cost him millions.Back in China, he tried his best for his son once, but it also ended in failure.To Fan Guangming, watching Aizi leave was undoubtedly the biggest blow in his life.After his son died, Fan Guangming's wife also fell seriously ill. It is precisely because of the special family situation that after Fan Guangming was taken away, there were two branches of speculation about the reason for his arrest. One said bribery.This is the news disclosed to the media by a friend who has a good personal relationship with Fan Guangming: Fan Guangming is still under scrutiny, and the issue of the censorship is that as an official of the Chinese Football Association, he accepted bribes from some Chinese Super League and Chinese Premier League clubs.As far as we know, he was investigated for taking bribes mainly because when his son was hospitalized with leukemia a few years ago, various clubs saw that Fan Guangming’s son was terminally ill and urgently needed money for medical treatment, so they also sent some money to Fan Guangming.At that time, Fan Guangming also rejected these clubs that gave money.But later, seeing that his son's condition was getting worse day by day, he also accepted the money from the clubs.But not long after, Fan Guangming's son passed away.On the day of his son's funeral, many clubs also sent representatives, and all of them gave him some money.Later, Fan Guangming's lover couldn't afford it because of his son's death, and some clubs gave some money one after another.Of course, the amount of money given by each club is definitely not small. If the clubs only give money from the perspective of favor, they will definitely not give so much money.However, the clubs must take this opportunity to hope that Fan Guangming can remember this favor and provide some work convenience when he needs help in the future. Another theory is that Fan Guangming is involved in the inside story of the Chinese Football Association's gambling.Among the rumored versions that broke out in many media, one of the more memorable ones is: Fan Guangming's problem has been involved as early as Wang Xin's Singapore gambling case. The first team to go to the Singapore League, the Xinqi Team, was organized by Fan Guangming, but why has there been no relevant case report yet?The reason is very simple, that is, the case he involved is not as simple as the Singapore football gambling case. As a former official of the Chinese Football Association, Fan Guangming has participated in many major actions of Chinese football. If there is any illegal behavior, it will inevitably involve higher figures. Is there a direct relationship between the Chinese Football Association and gambling? I don’t know if it was in a hurry to clear up the relationship with Fan Guangming. The Chinese Football Association quickly stated publicly: After Fan Guangming returned from Singapore in 2007, considering his family’s difficulties, he was allowed to return to work in the Chinese Football Association, but there was no fixed staff. . The positioning of "non-staff personnel" obviously distanced Fan Guangming's relationship with the Football Association.Later, some media reported that the "good guy Fan Guangming" was actually not very popular with the Football Association. "Fan Guangming's reputation in the Football Association is really not very good, but everyone can understand him to some extent. It is Fan Guangming's tragic experience, and the leaders are more sympathetic to him, and they don't interfere too much with what he does. No, now If something really happened, no one from the Football Association will protect him at this time. And what he did can’t be guaranteed, after all, those things are not a secret in the circle, and many people know.” An official of the Football Association commented on him. colleague. Unfortunate family, professional dedication, poor popularity, accepting bribes, trading power for money... so many contradictory stories still can't let us restore the complete and real Fan Guangming.Perhaps after the publication of this book, the facts of Fan Guangming's case will be announced on CCTV. It can only be said that poor people must have something to hate.Fan Guangming, the Chinese Football Association, and even Chinese football, could not be better.