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 ...

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 ...

China yesterday jailed former English Premier League star and China men’s national coach Li Tie for 20 years for bribery, snaring one of the country’s greatest soccer figures in a sweeping government ...

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

Chinese former football star Li Tie, who was also coach of the country ... An intermediate court in China’s Hubei province handed down the conviction and sentence after Li pleaded guilty ...

BEIJING: China on Friday jailed former Premier League star and men's national coach Li Tie for 20 years for bribery, snaring one of the country's greatest football figures in a sweeping government ...

Former Everton midfielder Li Tie has been sentenced to 20 years in ... including a role with the China national team. However, it has now emerged that Li committed bribery during his career ...

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 ...

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 ...

China on Friday jailed former Premier League star and men’s national coach Li Tie for 20 years for bribery, snaring one of the country’s greatest football figures in a sweeping government ...