{"id":686169,"date":"2026-05-22T10:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/686169\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:37:10","slug":"china-soccer-crackdown-brings-lifetime-bans-for-former-club-executives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/686169\/","title":{"rendered":"China Soccer Crackdown Brings Lifetime Bans for Former Club Executives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s soccer authorities issued a new round of punishments in a widening crackdown on match-fixing, gambling and corruption, imposing lifetime bans on 17 people and shorter bans on 48 others, including former executives at some of the country\u2019s best-known clubs.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Football Association said Thursday that the 17 people had been found by courts to have committed crimes and would be barred for life from any soccer-related activity. The association also said 48 people who had seriously violated industry rules would be banned from soccer-related work for five years or less.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/loading.gif\" alt=\"loadingImg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve accessed an article available only to subscribers<\/p>\n<p>VIEW OPTIONS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s soccer authorities issued a new round of punishments in a widening crackdown on match-fixing, gambling and corruption,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-686169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}