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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The court in Xianning was told Li accepted over 50m yuan (£5.4m) in bribes from 2019 to 2011 when he was coach of China’s national team. In exchange for the bribes, Li allegedly chose certain ...