School football: the new hope! Exploring the new nationwide system of Chinese sport. Issue 2 (3rd May 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Liu, Tianbiao; Mao, Zhenming; Zha, Ping
• Is Part Of: Asia Pacific journal of sport and social science. Volume 5:Issue 2(2016)
• Page Start: 132
• Page End: 141
• Publication Date: 2016-05-03
• Subjects: School football -- nationwide system -- sport -- reform -- sustainable development; Sports -- Social aspects -- East Asia -- Periodicals; Sports -- Social aspects -- Pacific Area -- Periodicals; 306.48309505
• DOI: 10.1080/21640599.2016.1204048
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2164-0599

Abstract

Abstract: After the Beijing Olympic Games, people began to rethink the long‐existing sport 'nationwide system' in China in light of the many negative aspects of this system. School football, as a new and prominent product of this system, is playing a pioneering role in reforming the system. This paper analyses the existing problems with the old 'nationwide system' through interviews with field experts and suggests a roadmap to a new system. We take school football as an example of system reform, providing a possible way of not only developing school football itself but also reforming the system.