(Department of Physical Education,Dalian University of Technology,Dalian 116024,China) Abstract: By doing a comparative analysis on autobiographies LI Yuan Wei’s Basketball World and Loyalty without Regrets: Me and Chinese Football written respectively by LI Yuan Wei (head of Chinese Basketball Association) and YAN Shi Duo (former head of Chinese Football Association) in such 4 aspects as taking and leaving office, dealing with the media, foreign coaches and coaching environments as well as crisis handling, the author drew the following conclu-sions: 1) such an appointment mechanism as “folk rumors + private information disclosure + official appointment” is provided with too many subjective factors, not conducive to basketball and football development in the long run; 2) “in-discrete management and execution” has hindered the progress of basketball and football professionalization reform to a certain extent; 3) basketball and football management is still mainly based on “people management”, lacking of a “legal system” foundation. Different tracks of football and basketball development in China indicate that seeking development during reform and boosting reform during development is the inevitable way to sports system reform in China. Key words: sports system;system reform;basketball;football;China |