A laser of such an intensity is “sufficient to cut through metal”, wrote a research team led by Li Xiao, an associate researcher with the school of optoelectronic science and engineering of ...

China on Friday jailed former Premier League star and men's national coach Li Tie for 20 years for bribery, snaring one of the country's greatest football figures in a sweeping government ...

BEIJING — China's crackdown on corruption in football claimed a notable figure on Friday (Dec 13) when former Everton midfielder and national team coach Li Tie was sentenced to 20 years in ...

Li Tie, 47, who played for the English Premier League Everton alongside Wayne Rooney in the early 2000s, is the biggest name to fall foul of a sweeping crackdown on rampant graft in China’s ...

The court in Xianning was told Li accepted over 50m yuan (£5.4m) in bribes from 2019 to 2011 when he was coach of China’s national team. In exchange for the bribes, Li allegedly chose certain ...

BEIJING – Former China men’s national football team coach Li Tie has been jailed for 20 years, state media reported on Dec 13, following a lengthy trial on corruption charges. The former ...

BEIJING, Dec 13 (Reuters) - China's crackdown on corruption in soccer claimed a notable figure on Friday when former Everton midfielder and national team coach Li Tie was sentenced to 20 years in ...

The Xianning court alleged that from 2015, when he was an assistant coach at the Hebei China Fortune club, until 2021, when he quit as China coach, Li gave and received bribes totalling 120 ...

Li coached the Chinese men's team between January 2020 and December 2021. He was also charged with taking bribes between 2015 and 2019, when he worked for clubs Hebei China Fortune and Wuhan Zall.

Li began his career at the age of 15, playing for Liaoning FC’s youth academy before going on to play nearly 100 games for China. At the height of his career, he secured lucrative transfer ...