China jails former national football coach for 20 years for bribery
- The former national football coach in china has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for bribery.
- This case is part of a larger anti-corruption campaign in chinese sports.
- The former coach admitted to accepting bribes during his tenure.
- The lengthy sentence reflects china's serious stance against corruption.
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Li Tie, 47, has played in the Premier League and was the national team captain for China. Now he is sentenced to 20 years in prison.


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The former coach of China’s national men’s football team, Li Tie, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for bribery, state media reports. Once a star player for Everton in the Premier League, Li admitted earlier this year to accepting bribes of millions of dollars in return for favors. Li Received $16 Million in Bribes Li’s crimes spanned from 2015, when he was an assistant coach at Hebei China Fortune Club, to 2021, when he stepped down a…
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China jails ex-national football coach for 20 years for bribery
BEIJING — The former coach of the Chinese men’s national football team has received a 20-year-prison sentence for bribery, Chinese state media reported Friday. Li Tie, who once played in the English Premier League as a midfielder for Everton, was found guilty of “leveraging his positions” as head coach of the national football and national selection team to receive bribes of more than 50 million yuan (about $7 million), by a court in the city o…
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