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The Chinese team that won an international youth championship by stacking itself with pros has said it will let go of its claim on the title, says a Sydney Morning Herald report.
For now, it's the principal of Daping School in Chongqing who is taking the heat, according to the SMH story, which quotes Zhang Jianling as saying: "What we have done goes against sportsmanship and has undermined the image of our city as well as soccer's development in China."
Titan, China's biggest sports newspaper, reports in its online edition (here in Chinese) that the school will keep the physical trophy, as a reminder of the shame of the incident.
It's difficult to make sense of all of the blame-shifting that's going on, but the Chinese Football Association still denies any knowledge of the scheme. This is difficult to believe. China's women's professional soccer league isn't widely followed and the matches are generally held in small venues, but this is a busy time of year for the teams. And as is true with every sport in China, players' schedules are closely dictated by their teams' leadership.
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This football scandal is only one more example of the duplicity and corruption endemic in China.
At least these "ring-ins" didn't actually poison anybody with melamine.
They just followed the traditional way, enshrined in the Chinese Olympic tradition of breaking the rules for short term profit and the pathetic grab for national recognition.
Obviously the CFA was involved. They even regulate the length of shoelaces, don't they?
I hope the kids from Brazil and Germany who got beaten by these cheats (were any of them under 21?)can sleep easier...
What a a contemptible society you people have constructed...
This was exposed by the Chinese press, thats the real story, the so called cowed suppressed censored Chinese press doing its job.
As for comtemptible, its obvious the Chinese are following the footsteps of westerners. Whats a pity.
@paintingrainbowsblack
"the so called cowed suppressed censored Chinese press doing its job."
Doing its job? Insofar as it occasionally gets it right?
You express surprise at the fact that the Chinese press reported the story at all, and then, you try to defend them against western criticism in the same breath.
As if many of you can read the chines press at all. if it were not for translations by bloggers, so many things would go unnoticed. Come to think of it. much of it probably still is given the limited scope of the chinese media most have here.