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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...