The Prospects and Challenges of Youth Soccer Development In the Case of Some Selected Clubs in Addis Ababa
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2014-05
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Addis Abeba university
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to assess and evaluate the prospects and challenges of youth
soccer development in the case of some selected clubs in Addis Ababa, U-15 and U-17 clubs.
For the implementation of the Study, a descriptive survey design was employed. The study
subjects were selected from the availability samples. In this attempt, data were collected through
questionnaires, structured interviews and observation check list. Consequently, the study
demonstrated that youth soccer players and all the coaches contributed for the study to be
conducted by giving their own views regarding the raised issues were selected on the base of
their own voluntary cooperation. The study also payed a thorough consideration to the players
parents contribution on the trainees‘ personal soccer skills development and to skip the progress
of the youth soccer development as a whole. Moreover, the player selection criteria, the coaching
system, and the roles of the administrative bodies to work cooperatively, the facilities provided,
the roles of the coaches, lack of frequent training program and the impacts it brought upon the
progress of the trainees and the youth soccer development, and failure to conduct frequent follow
ups to investigate the strengths and weaknesses of the players through regular assessment all
other related issues are taken as a focal point of the study. To achieve these objectives and to
detect the factors that hindered the concerned bodies the researcher included male players,
coaches, and the Football Federation administrative bodies and encouraged them all to involve
themselves in the issues raised in terms of the youth soccer development. Their genuine
responses are collected and used as analytical framework for the effective implementation of the
study.
Key words: -technical, physiological, psychological, physical, facility, Performance, title,
introduction, methods, materials, analysis and conclusion
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technical; physiological; psychological; physical; facility; Performance; title; Introduction; methods; materials; analysis and conclusion