China soccer boss Wei Di promises to tackle corruption

China's New football director Wei Di has pledged to attack corruption and raise the country's world rankings by introducing a raft of new measures to tackle Corruption and match fixing in the sport.

Wei Di, the newly appointed chief of the Chinese Football Association (CFA), speaks  at a press conference in Beijing on Feb. 2, 2010.  On the press conference, Wei  made his official debut after taking over the position.(Xinhua/Guo Yong)

With various media gathered for Wei Di's first official press conference, the man charged with cleaning up China's football scandal admitted the game is corrupt at the lower levels, with coaches and players involved in match fixing.

Wei Di, director of Chineses Football Association, says, "The moral standard of high level administrative officials in this industry has experienced a serious decline and at the lower levels, we have coaches and players that are involved in match-fixing."