Developing a sustainable football model with the AFC Vision Asia Philosophy - two grassroots development cases in Zibo and Qingdao

Liang, Yiyong

doi:10.1080/17430437.2015.1133599

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“…The resources have been centralised to urban areas. However, it is important to decentralise the resources into local-level sport organisations to develop sport in non-urban areas (Liang, 2016). In Sri Lanka, most of the resources have been centralised in urban areas such as Colombo and Kandy.…”

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The Difficulties of Making Sport Policy Succeed: A Case Study of Sri Lanka

Jayawardhana,

Crabtree,

Piggin

2023

Journal of Health Management

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Although a new Sri Lankan sport policy framework was introduced in 2012, no research has been done to evaluate the implementation of the policy framework. Consequently, the purpose of this study was to evaluate and identify mitigating factors in achieving the strategic goals of the Sri Lankan sport policy framework. Qualitative data and a quantitative approach were used to analyse and investigate the sport policy framework. A questionnaire (N = 240) and interviews (N = 05) were utilised to gather data from sport participants, non-sport participants and top-level sport administrators. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses suggested that the goals of the national sport policy framework have not been achieved. Lack of financial support, deficiency of government provision, institutional structural issues, and negative attitudes of policy actors were identified as mitigating factors in the process of policy implication. Developing an umbrella organisation for coordinating sport and government’s support are vital to resolve those problems.

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The Difficulties of Making Sport Policy Succeed: A Case Study of Sri Lanka

Jayawardhana,

Crabtree,

Piggin

2023

Journal of Health Management

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“…Recent evidence (e.g., [6,11,21,22]) has suggested that there have been, to varying degrees, advancements in the commercialization of sports such as football, table tennis, badminton, and volleyball (see Figure 2). As Ma and Kurscheidt [23] (p. 6) noted, from an economic viewpoint, commercialization can be explicitly perceived as a change in the structures of resource allocation toward greater adoption of market mechanisms.…”

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Modifying Tradition: Understanding Organizational Change in Chinese Elite Sport Training at the Grassroots Level

Kurscheidt

2021

Sustainability

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This research examines the organizational change in Chinese elite sport training at the grassroots level, which is perceived as foundational to and crucial for the development of sustainable competitive advantage at the Olympics. Predicted on an in-depth single case study design linked to qualitative research, this study pursued a “thick description” of the process of change in Shanghai elite sport training by identifying the impetus for change and factors moderating the change process. All qualitative data were sourced from semi-structured interviews and official and semi-official documents. Participants included current sport leaders; officials/administrators; senior, including head and non-head, coaches; and renowned Chinese social science scholars who either specialize in or are familiar with the elite sport training scene in general and the landscape at the grassroots level. The key findings, on the basis of organizational change theory, were that the internal and external political pressures are strongly linked to the growing concern about athlete performance management, the alignment of elite sport training with the sport service industry, and limited financial resources; the functional pressures emerge from the broadening of the talent pool of money-consuming sports and newly added Olympic sports; and other fields’ successful practices, the unlimited registration rule, and a virtuous cycle of training contribute to organizational change.

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“…Despite this, representation of non-Muslim Asian and Oceanian citizens is among the lowest of all groups. Liang (2016) notes that organised amateur football has been relatively underdeveloped in China and a community-based football culture has been lacking. Additionally, as a recreational sport, football in China faces strong competition from very popular sports such as table tennis, badminton and basketball.…”

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Ethnic participation in Dutch amateur football clubs

Haaften

2019

European Journal for Sport and Society

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Sports, especially when organised within clubs, are often celebrated for their ability to link different ethnic groups together. However, various studies indicate the persistence of a gap between majority and ethnic minority sports participation. This study explores the participation of multiple ethnic groups in the Netherlands' most popular organised sport. Three explanations for ethnic disparities in sports participation are discussed and explored: a lack of resources, discrimination and ethnic specific sport preferences. The article concludes that resources and discrimination do not seem to substantially structure ethnic participation in amateur football. Ethnic preferences seem to have more merit explaining differing participation rates. A combination of a high number of amateur football clubs, subsidies and geographic concentration of minority groups might be responsible for these findings.

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Developing a sustainable football model with the AFC Vision Asia Philosophy - two grassroots development cases in Zibo and Qingdao

Cited by 5 publications

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The Difficulties of Making Sport Policy Succeed: A Case Study of Sri Lanka

The Difficulties of Making Sport Policy Succeed: A Case Study of Sri Lanka

Modifying Tradition: Understanding Organizational Change in Chinese Elite Sport Training at the Grassroots Level

Ethnic participation in Dutch amateur football clubs

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