BEIJING (Reuters) -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 20 years in prison ...

Li Tie, 47, who played for the English Premier League Everton alongside Wayne Rooney in the early 2000s, is the biggest name to fall foul of a sweeping crackdown on rampant graft in China’s ...

A Chinese court has sentenced former Everton midfielder Li Tie to 20 years in prison for ... in bribes from 2019 to 2011 when he was coach of China’s national team. In exchange for the bribes ...

Former national team coach is the biggest name to be netted in China’s sweeping crackdown on corruption in sport. Li Tie, the former coach of China’s male football team, who has been jailed ...

The authorities have shown the determination to take painful measures to eradicate corruption. And the investigation against ...

Li Tie pleaded guilty to fixing matches ... when he was an assistant coach at the Hebei China Fortune Club, until 2021, when he quit as the national coach. In exchange for the bribes, Li would ...

China's anti-corruption battle continues to roar. In 2024, it made waves in sectors such as finance, energy, healthcare and ...

China’s recent crackdown on corruption in football is not the end because the sport in the country is rotten to the core, observers have declared. On Friday, Li Tie, a former coach of the men ...

More than 200 specialized detention facilities have been built or expanded across China, a CNN investigation finds, as the ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday vowed an "all-out battle against corruption" as top leaders convened in Beijing for an annual planning session of the country's top disciplinary agency.

BEIJING, Dec 13 (Reuters) - 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 20 years in ...

BEIJING — China's crackdown on corruption in football claimed a notable figure on Friday (Dec 13) when former Everton midfielder and national team coach Li Tie was sentenced to 20 years in ...