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Chinese bookie guarantees all matches on website are fixed
Published: 27 November 2009 17:05 | Changed: 27 November 2009 17:12
The result of some this weekend's Dutch premier league football matches has already been decided in Shanghai, says Sister Chen, who sells memberships to a betting website.
By Oscar Garschagen in Shanghai
News - Dutch football is not immune to Chinese match-fixing
The agent of the football site 05026.com in Shanghai didn't beat around the bush. "All the games in the Netherlands on our website are fixed. We have agreements with the trainers and players so we know exactly who is going to win or lose," she said with confidence.
The woman, who introduced herself as Sister Chen, wanted to know if the foreign gentleman was interested in a 1,500-euro yearly membership to the site, in return for which he would get access to all inside information on the European professional football competitions. A contract could be delivered by messenger within the hour, and as soon as the fee was paid, bets could be placed for this weekend's games. "Seeing that you're a foreigner, we could perhaps lower the fee to 500 euros just this once," she insisted.
This Friday, for instance, there is money to be made by betting on Dutch first division matches: the De Graafschap vs Haarlem or Stormvogels Telstar vs. Fortuna Sittard. The games start at 8 p.m. CET, but the outcome has already been decided in Shanghai, said Sister Chen. "We can guarantee the result and a doubling of your bet: 1,000 euros will become 2,000 euros. After we take out a 30 percent transaction fee you will be getting 1,400 euros back."
Online casinos for football games
The website also offered four premier league games this weekend, including AZ Alkmaar vs. VVV Venlo. There were games on offer from all the European and Central-Asian competitions as well as games in the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia. "The lower the division the more games are on offer", Sister Chen explained. "The English premier league games are the hardest to fix."
Sister Chen said she is "only an agent, not a fixer." She said she didn't know anything about the organisation behind 05026.com. Fact is there are dozens of Chinese websites functioning as online casinos for football games in Europe and elsewhere. You can even place bets during the game; spotters at the game or behind their TV sets provide relevant information for the gamblers back in China.
Officially, gambling is illegal in China. In order to escape detection by the police the sites are often registered in Brussels, London or Hong Kong rather than China itself. But the police does little to nothing to track down the illegal casinos. The gambling industry has become too big and the police has other priorities.
According to Chinese sports journalist Yang Ming, who in 2002 wrote a book, Black Whistles, about the role of the illegal Chinese gambling industry in football, the business is good for 15 billion dollars. Part of that money stays in China, an unknown other part has contaminated foreign football competitions.
Young people have switched to basketball
"It is a cancer that has completely destroyed the Chinese football competition and it is now spreading to Europe," said Yang Ming, who works at the state press agency Xinhua . Since his book was published Yang Ming has never gone to a game or watched one on television, because, he said, "everything is fixed from the first to the last minute".
The arrests this week of 16 Chineses football coaches, players and officials of the Chinese football league will not make a big difference, Yang Ming said. "Corruption and gambling have killed Chinese football: the most beautiful sport in the world, which was first played in China during the Han dynasty in 206 B.C., is no more," he lamented.
Most Chinese seem to agree: the number of registered football players in China has gone down from 650,000 to around 50,000 in 15 years time. Young people have switched to basketball en masse . But that hasn't stopped the Chinese from being football-crazy: the international games broadcast by sports channel CCTV-5 draw up to 400 million viewers on weekends.
Football has become a state affair
And the fact that China, with its 1.3 billion inhabitants, can't seem to get a decent national football team together, has now become a state affair. Both president Hu Jintao and vice-president Xi Jinping , himself a football fanatic, have recently taken a personal interest. According to Chinese state media, the country's highest political leaders have called it a "national disgrace" that China will not be playing in the 2010 world championships. The combination of the corruption scandals and China's absence on the international football scene, "are threatening to overshadow the success of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, according to the state media.
This week's arrest are said to be part of a drive by the president and vice-president to rid Chinese football of corruption and revitalise the sport, or, as the English-language state newspaper China Daily wrote, "to stop the fall of Chinese football further into ignominy".
It seems a given that many more heads, of football players, coaches and officials, will roll in the coming weeks and months. But sports journalist Yang doubts it will make a difference. "They're just hollow words that we've all heard many times before."
Chinese bookie guarantees all matches on website are fixed
Published: 27 November 2009 17:05 | Changed: 27 November 2009 17:12
The result of some this weekend's Dutch premier league football matches has already been decided in Shanghai, says Sister Chen, who sells memberships to a betting website.
By Oscar Garschagen in Shanghai
News - Dutch football is not immune to Chinese match-fixing
The agent of the football site 05026.com in Shanghai didn't beat around the bush. "All the games in the Netherlands on our website are fixed. We have agreements with the trainers and players so we know exactly who is going to win or lose," she said with confidence.
The woman, who introduced herself as Sister Chen, wanted to know if the foreign gentleman was interested in a 1,500-euro yearly membership to the site, in return for which he would get access to all inside information on the European professional football competitions. A contract could be delivered by messenger within the hour, and as soon as the fee was paid, bets could be placed for this weekend's games. "Seeing that you're a foreigner, we could perhaps lower the fee to 500 euros just this once," she insisted.
This Friday, for instance, there is money to be made by betting on Dutch first division matches: the De Graafschap vs Haarlem or Stormvogels Telstar vs. Fortuna Sittard. The games start at 8 p.m. CET, but the outcome has already been decided in Shanghai, said Sister Chen. "We can guarantee the result and a doubling of your bet: 1,000 euros will become 2,000 euros. After we take out a 30 percent transaction fee you will be getting 1,400 euros back."
Online casinos for football games
The website also offered four premier league games this weekend, including AZ Alkmaar vs. VVV Venlo. There were games on offer from all the European and Central-Asian competitions as well as games in the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia. "The lower the division the more games are on offer", Sister Chen explained. "The English premier league games are the hardest to fix."
Sister Chen said she is "only an agent, not a fixer." She said she didn't know anything about the organisation behind 05026.com. Fact is there are dozens of Chinese websites functioning as online casinos for football games in Europe and elsewhere. You can even place bets during the game; spotters at the game or behind their TV sets provide relevant information for the gamblers back in China.
Officially, gambling is illegal in China. In order to escape detection by the police the sites are often registered in Brussels, London or Hong Kong rather than China itself. But the police does little to nothing to track down the illegal casinos. The gambling industry has become too big and the police has other priorities.
According to Chinese sports journalist Yang Ming, who in 2002 wrote a book, Black Whistles, about the role of the illegal Chinese gambling industry in football, the business is good for 15 billion dollars. Part of that money stays in China, an unknown other part has contaminated foreign football competitions.
Young people have switched to basketball
"It is a cancer that has completely destroyed the Chinese football competition and it is now spreading to Europe," said Yang Ming, who works at the state press agency Xinhua . Since his book was published Yang Ming has never gone to a game or watched one on television, because, he said, "everything is fixed from the first to the last minute".
The arrests this week of 16 Chineses football coaches, players and officials of the Chinese football league will not make a big difference, Yang Ming said. "Corruption and gambling have killed Chinese football: the most beautiful sport in the world, which was first played in China during the Han dynasty in 206 B.C., is no more," he lamented.
Most Chinese seem to agree: the number of registered football players in China has gone down from 650,000 to around 50,000 in 15 years time. Young people have switched to basketball en masse . But that hasn't stopped the Chinese from being football-crazy: the international games broadcast by sports channel CCTV-5 draw up to 400 million viewers on weekends.
Football has become a state affair
And the fact that China, with its 1.3 billion inhabitants, can't seem to get a decent national football team together, has now become a state affair. Both president Hu Jintao and vice-president Xi Jinping , himself a football fanatic, have recently taken a personal interest. According to Chinese state media, the country's highest political leaders have called it a "national disgrace" that China will not be playing in the 2010 world championships. The combination of the corruption scandals and China's absence on the international football scene, "are threatening to overshadow the success of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, according to the state media.
This week's arrest are said to be part of a drive by the president and vice-president to rid Chinese football of corruption and revitalise the sport, or, as the English-language state newspaper China Daily wrote, "to stop the fall of Chinese football further into ignominy".
It seems a given that many more heads, of football players, coaches and officials, will roll in the coming weeks and months. But sports journalist Yang doubts it will make a difference. "They're just hollow words that we've all heard many times before."
