Investigating Factors that Affect the Development of Football in South Nation Nationalites ind Peoples Region: With Particular Refernce to Kaffa Zone
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2013-06
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Addis Abeba university
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This study was conducted with the objectives of investigating factors that affect the development of
football in SNNPR with particular emphasis to kaffa zone and to recommend the possible solutions
accordingly. Data utilized for the study have mainly been acquired through sample survey of (N= 68)
participants. Among these, (N= 40) randomly selected football players from the four clubs and (N=4)
purposively selected coaches (Wushwush Bonga TVET, Bonga TTC and Mankira Coffee) were included
in the questionnaire and (N=10) were participated in interview and the other 14 purposively selected were
participated in the FGD. Mainly, descriptive (frequency distribution and percentage, mean) method of
analysis has been utilized to analyze the data collected through questionnaire whereas the data from FGD
and interview was analyzed through qualitative technique. A cross sectional design method is employed
as a general approach in the study. The findings of the study indicated that the following major problems
were dominant in the zone football sport clubs: less emphasis given to the value of sport in general and
football in particular, by the general public, the investors and sport officers at all levels, absence of
transparent and accountable administration, lack of cooperation among the concerned stallholders, very
low popular participation, absence of permanent fund for the clubs, lack of sufficient football courts in the
area and less emphasis given to even the existing ones, lack of trained sport professionals that could
supplement the problems man power from zone to woreda levels, less access and opportunity or available
structure that could invite the private investors to attract to. As a general solution to the identified
problems greater emphasis has to be given to the youth football in the area so that it could be possible to
recruit adult players in the near future and this could also be a fundamental base for the sustainability of
the major adult football clubs in the zone. Establishing and organizing football youth projects and clubs in
all of keffa zone weredas could be one major strategy to address the sustainability of the major football
clubs.
Key words: development, football clubs, football projects, investigation, investment, national
league, Primer league
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Development; Football Clubs; Football Projects; Investigation; Investment; National League; Primer League