QINGDAO, China, May 26 (Xinhuanet) -- The latest scandal of troublesome Chinese football Super League, triggered by sacking of the coach of defending champions Shenzhen Jianlibao, had alerted Asian football chief who demanded a quick solution from Chinese football authorities.

　 　"The crisis at Shenzhen must be solved urgently, or Chinese football would collapse," Peter Velappan, general secretary of Asian Football Confederation (AFC) said here Thursday, a day before AFC announcing the launch of series of programs to boost football development in the region.

　　Coach Chi Shangbin of the Shenzhen club was sacked last Tuesdayfor poor performance that led the defending champions languishing at the bottom of the Super League standings with one win, four draws and five losses.

　　But Chi and Yang Saixin, the interim board chairman of the clubwho announced resignation soon for protest of the sack, said the club had succumbed to "ruffian" players who wanted to control the club and played the key role to fire the coach that they did not favor.

　　Coach Chi took the post at the start of the season, but his relation with key players soured over his tough management style, coming along with the salary cuts that left many players in the club disgruntled.

　　Yang said the bad-behaving players, including the national teamcaptain Li Weifeng, are more gangsters than players as they are multimillionaires, owning companies and capable of fixing matches.

　　And Yang said he had held sufficient evidences that these "ruffian players" took bribes, fixed match results, and engaged ingambling in last year's league games.

　　The domestic media gave blanket coverage of the event and called it a start of new crisis following last year's "black referee" scandal.

　　"I will talk to officials with China Football Association rightafter the launch ceremony here," said Velappan who blamed poor administration of the Super League for the crisis.

　　"Super League was a professional league and it must be run by professionals, not some amateurs," he said. "China's football administration needs great upgrading."

　　Velappan said in his meeting with CFA officials they will have to exam China's super league from the perspective of a professional league, especially in fields like club management, marketing, and media coverage.

　　"And we must bring the fans back to the stadium," said Velappan, adding that many fans, dissatisfied with referee corruption, match-fixing, have turned away from the super league.

　　As part of the Vision Asia program that AFC is going to launch Friday, city league, a semi-professional football league, will officially start in two Chinese cities - Qingdao in east China andWuhan in central China.

　　Velappan said the city league is more targeted for ordinary people and one of their goals is to have full stadium for all the matches. Enditem