Former national team coach is the biggest name to be netted in China's sweeping crackdown on corruption in sport.
One of China's most recognisable former footballers, Li was convicted of taking bribes worth more than 110 million yuan.
The former coach of the Chinese men's national football team has received a 20-year-prison sentence for bribery, Chinese state media has reported.
The national men's team coach and former English Premier League player is the latest high-profile sports figure to fall in China's anti-graft campaign.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has waged an unrelenting campaign against deep-seated official corruption since coming to power more than a decade ago. Anti-graft ...
China's crackdown on corruption in soccer claimed a notable figure on Friday when former Everton midfielder and national team coach Li Tie was sentenced to ...
BEIJING (Reuters) -- China's crackdown on corruption in soccer claimed a notable figure on Friday when former Everton midfielder and national team coa.
The former midfielder with English Premier League side Everton reportedly acknowledged earlier this year that he was mixed up in fixing matches and accepting ...
Former Chinese national football team head coach Li Tie was sentenced to 20 years in prison in a first-instance verdict on Friday for a number of charges ...
The former coach of China's men's national football team, Li Tie, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for bribery, according to Chinese state media...