Abstract
Success in any commercial events of sport in today’s world is built and refined largely based on abundant and exceedingly diversified information. Player as the principal element of any sport has long been measured by many attributes and further examined by multiple disciplines and resulted with abundant findings and inspiration. The study tries to utilize information regarding birthplace at prefecture city level of a player in those records to identify some distributional characteristics of those places and examine the certain factors that leading to the findings. The results of spatial Distribution Analysis of Chinese Soccer Players’ birthplaces show a very unbalanced distribution, and are promoting that differentiated background of soccer developments, geographic seating with advantageous means of outward communication as well as conventional social-economic measures interact closely with a place in promoting its chance of breeding more soccer players of top level in nation.
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Zhang, Y., Hu, C., Liu, J. (2015). Spatial Distribution Analysis of Chinese Soccer Players’ Birthplaces. In: Bian, F., Xie, Y. (eds) Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem. GRMSE 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 482. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45737-5_73
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