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While the Chinese Football Association permanently expelled 73 more people involved in match fixing that occurred in the past, the Chinese national team-turned-manager included in the list also eventually dropped the baton. It has been only 11 days since the manager was appointed.
The Chinese professional football league (division 3) Changchun Sidhu officially announced the termination of the contract with manager Wang Dong (45) on the club's official website on the 29th. The Changchung club said, "We take the Chinese Football Association's disciplinary announcement very seriously and actively support related disciplinary decisions. As a result, the contract with Wang Dong was terminated," he said.
Coach Wang Dong was included in the Chinese Football Association's disciplinary list for match fixing and was permanently expelled from the soccer community. As a result, Wang Dong, who was appointed as the new head coach of the Changchun club on the 18th, was terminated in just 11 days. According to Chinese media outlet Titanzhou Bao, he was disgraced as the shortest coach in the history of the Chinese league.
Wang Dong is a midfielder who played in 30 A matches while playing for China in the mid-2000s. As a player, he played for Changchun Yutai, Chongqing Lippan, Tianjin Teda, and Qingdao Huanghai. Since then, Changchun has been the third team since 2022 and has left without even being able to properly lead the team since taking office.
Earlier, the Chinese Football Association held a joint press conference with China's Ministry of Public Security and the National Sports Administration, and permanently expelled 73 former and current soccer employees who were caught in connection with match manipulation, gambling, and irregularities, and imposed up to 10 points reduction and sanctions of up to 1 million yuan (about 210 million won) on 13 clubs. The list of permanent exits includes not only Wang Dong, but also Chen Xu Xuan, former president of the Chinese Football Association, who is already serving a life sentence for bribery, and Li Tie, former coach of the Chinese national team, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The Changchun Sidhu club, which appointed Wang Dong, was not disciplined separately, but immediately terminated the contract when Wang Dong was disciplined by the Chinese Football Association. The Chinese Football Association previously permanently kicked out 43 people in the first round in September 2024, and Son Joon-ho (currently Asan FC in Chungnam), who played for Shandong Taishan, was also included in the list, which was controversial.
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