Son Joon-ho explained everything to the best of his knowledge about the permanent expulsion of the Chinese Football Association. Nevertheless, questions remained unresolved enough for the Q&A to last more than an hour.
At 4 p.m. on Wednesday, a press conference was held at the Suwon Sports Center in Suwon Stadium. The meeting was held to express an official position and explain the controversy over the recent expulsion of Son Joon-ho from the Chinese Football Association.
The Chinese Football Association permanently expelled Son Joon-ho from the Chinese soccer community. “Son Joon-ho, a former Shandong Taishan player, participated in unfair transactions to promote unfair profits and seriously violated sports ethics such as match fixing and illegal profits,” he said in an official announcement on the 10th (Korea Standard Time). “Son Joon-ho is not allowed to engage in any activities related to soccer throughout his life.”
Currently, the disciplinary action is only applied under the jurisdiction of the Chinese Football Association, but there is room for it to be extended to the world in the future. If the Chinese Football Association notifies FIFA of the disciplinary action, FIFA will also hold a disciplinary committee and the details of the disciplinary action will be delivered to each member country later. As soon as FIFA delivers the message to each member country, citing the disciplinary action taken by the Chinese Football Association, Son Jun-ho’s career is nearing an end.
This was the reason why Son made his announcement. When Son made his official announcement, he clearly resolved some of the questions. First of all, Son’s final charges were not match fixing but receiving money and valuables. “As a soccer player, I thought match fixing was a huge disgrace, and I was well aware of how fatal it was to my career,” Son said, stressing that if match fixing had been presented as his charges, he would have denied it until the end.
Regarding the reason why he is revealing the whole story, he said, “Judges and senior officials who appear to be in charge of a sentence should never disclose the information to anyone, and warned them that they will no longer be able to play soccer if they do,” adding, “This is an issue that the Chinese Football Association announced first. I thought I had to say it now. I have nothing to lose,” stressing that he is a victim, not a criminal.
Nevertheless, unresolved questions remained, not because of Son Jun-ho’s fault, but because of insufficient evidence in many ways. Chinese public security refused to disclose the evidence, citing the absurd reason that the video file that investigated Son Jun-ho was lost. The Chinese side also refused to disclose the video and audio at the prosecution stage. As a result, all the truth had to borrow Son Jun-ho’s mouth, and several issues continued throughout the Q&A.
▲ an allegation of receiving money and valuables and a route to receiving 200,000 yuan
The most controversial issue is the fact that the 200,000 yuan (about 37.65 million won) came from Son’s alleged bribery, which was finally admitted by Son for the transaction of sentence, and that the Chinese public authorities presented it on this basis. The amount was received from Jin Jingdao, who helped Son adjust to China.
Son said, “I have never manipulated matches or participated in them. It is not illegal money,” adding, “I talked about the match with Shanghai Shanghai in January 2023. There was no mention of how I participated.” Chinese authorities believed Jin Jingdao benefited from the match, and Son Jun-ho was also involved in it. The evidence is that he traded 200,000 yuan five days after the match.
However, neither the Chinese public nor Son’s side can clearly explain this. What is most important in this situation is the fact that Son did not receive the money or evidence that he did not receive the money illegally. Son has already received 200,000 yuan. Under the circumstances where this is clear, the only way for Son to survive is to clearly reenact the situation and provide solid evidence. 먹튀검증
There is no evidence to prove this. “I received the phone a little late and did a forensic examination through my wife to find out what was going on, but since the conversations between December and January 2023 have disappeared, there is no way to recover,” Son said.
During the Q&A session, Son said, “I clearly do not remember the situation in which I received 200,000 yuan.” He said that he could not remember the exact situation because there were many cases of large transactions, such as exchanging gifts for children and lending money when he was in a hurry. However, as long as the clear date of “five days after Shanghai Sanggang and after the match” is released, the fact that the allegation is due to anti-Parking can be proved only when the person remembers it. If there is evidence that can raise an allegation regardless of whether the person actually received money or not, evidence that this is not the case should be raised to a similar level.