Supervision only way to break soccer's corruption cycle

Several senior officials in the country's soccer administrative system were sentenced to prison after being found guilty of corruption and power abuses on Tuesday. But since this has been the third large-scale anti-graft campaign in the soccer sector over the past 30 years, during which the Chinese national soccer team has fallen in FIFA rankings from around 40th to around 90th, the question is how the world's most popular sport can be put onto the right track in the country that has the largest number of soccer fans in the world. The details of the soccer officials' graft unveiled by the judicial authorities clearly indicate that due to the lack of effective supervision, their corruption can only be described as "unscrupulous", as it spanned their whole careers in the soccer circle, and happened in almost every field they were in charge of, ranging from management of the various national teams and league matches at various levels to referee work and youth training. Were it not for a club sponsor exposing the former national team coach's "insatiable" embezzlement of the funds of the club he then worked for, more than two years ago, the whole systemic corruption involving dozens of major officials of the soccer system, as well as players and referees, would not have come to light. That being said, before an effective oversight mechanism is formed in the soccer system, its corruption cycle that is repeated every 10 years, the duration of two terms of CFA officials, will remain unbroken.