Investigating Factors that Affect the Development of Handball Sport: With Specific Reference to Addis Ababa Handball Federation
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2014-08
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Addis Abeba university
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate factors that affect the development
of handball sport, with specific reference in Addis Ababa handball federation.
The study comprises 42 handball players in Addis Ababa city club, 8 current
and former administrative staffs of Addis Ababa handball federation and 10
club coaches, 10 professionals, 2 Instructors, 1 officer and 8 referees. Inclusive
sampling is to focus on particular sampling techniques of the study which will
best enable to answer research questions. Then, inclusive study is used to
carry out this research. Three instruments such as questionnaire, interview
and observation cheek list were used. The descriptive analysis of the data was
analyzed by using both qualitative and quantitative methods. The result of the
study clearly showed that Addis Ababa handball federation had its own
problem for the growth and development of handball sport in the city. Schools
communities in a grass root level have been the main source of potential
players for handball; coaches also started their carrier in the school. The major
constraints associated with Addis Ababa handball federation are found to have
very low and shortage of finance, shortage of skilled manpower, a few number
of clubs, lack of facilities and equipments, no regular project training, no
female clubs or teams, lack of control play ground in the villages, not following
scientific method of training by coaches and very low level of sponsorship .To
overcome these problems, the following recommendations have been forwarded:
every stakeholder such as Coaches, Instructors, Professionals and Amateurs
should work hand to hand in order to solve the problems, the government
should give equal emphasis to handball sport like other sports and the federal
sport commission and Addis Ababa sport commission to gather, should help
for the development of handball sport in different corners of the city so as to
increase its popularity.
Key words:- Handball, Investigate , coach , federation, project, grass root level,
purposive study ,Administrative staff
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Handball; Investigate ; coach ; federation; project; grass root level; purposive study ;Administrative staff