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admit the penalty! ding jie responded to the "lifelong ban": i received 70,000 yuan and have refunded it, i did not sell out the team

2024-09-12

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on september 10, the chinese football association officially released a notice on industry penalties for the persons involved in the case, including 60 fines. among them, 43 people including jin jingdao, sun zhunhao, guo tianyu, yang shanping, gu chao, zhu jianrong, and ding jie were banned for life, and 17 people including wang song were banned from engaging in any football-related activities for 5 years.

source: account of the party concerned

the football association's penalty notice shows that ding jie, a former player of shaanxi chang'an athletic football club, was banned from engaging in any football-related activities for life in order to seek improper benefits, participate in improper transactions, manipulate football matches and obtain illegal profits.

on september 12, ding jie responded to the "lifelong ban" by posting a long article: on december 8, 2021, in the match between shaanxi chang'an athletic and nantong zhiyun, we won 2:1 and received 70,000 yuan after the game. i went all out to win the game. i did not sell out the team, nor did i do anything to let down the shaanxi fans. but i broke the law, and i have actively accepted the punishment, refunded the full amount to the judicial authorities, and paid the fine.

the full text is as follows:

hello everyone, my name is ding jie. i am very sorry to retire in this way. i have let down the expectations of my fans. i sincerely apologize to you all here!

regarding the penalty decision, the game where i violated the rules and disciplines was on december 8, 2021, in the match between shaanxi chang'an athletic and nantong zhiyun. we won 2:1 and received 70,000 yuan after the game. i went all out to win in this game. i did not sell out the team, nor did i do anything to let down the shaanxi fans. but i broke the law, and i have actively accepted the penalty, refunded the full amount to the judicial authorities, and paid the fine. it's just that the penalty given by the football association this time is too harsh and unacceptable compared to previous cases.

after this punishment, i reflected deeply that as a professional athlete, i should be strict with myself and set a good example. i should not lose self-discipline in the face of economic interests and break the law.

looking back on my career, i started learning to play football at the age of six, and it has been 31 years. i have dedicated all my youth to football. from 2003 to 2015, i played for liaoning hongyun for 12 years. from 2015 to 2021, i played for chongqing liangjiang athletic for 6 years, with arrears of 9.09 million yuan in wages. from 2021 to 2022, i played for shaanxi chang'an athletic for 2 years, with arrears of nearly 2 million yuan in wages. because i love football, i still fought to the end when the team owed wages, and helped shaanxi chang'an athletic get the best result in history of fifth place in the china league one. after the end of the 2022 league, the team faced difficulties in admission to the football association. i took the lead in signing the first salary confirmation form to give up the arrears of wages. i and the remaining players hoped that the team could survive, but the reality did not match expectations. chongqing liangjiang athletic and shaanxi chang'an athletic were disbanded one after another, and my two arrears of wages became a piece of waste paper. in 2023, mr. zhang asked me to stay and help him unite the old players to form a new team. then the first membership club binzhou huilong was born. in the same year, qin ying increased the capital and became a shareholder. the team was renamed shaanxi united and the club ushered in a booming development. i am very grateful to mr. zhang and qin ying for their contribution to preserving the flame of shaanxi football.

i have experienced many ups and downs along the way, and it is the fans' unswerving support that gave me the courage to persevere. now i can no longer fight for the team as a player. i hope my personal problems will not affect the club and the next games. in the future, i will continue to pay attention to and support the team as a fan, and become the 12th man of the team with everyone. i wish shaanxi football will get better and better! the club can succeed in promotion! i apologize again to the fans who have always supported me.