Practices and Challenges of Football Coaching Leadership Style and Players Satisfaction: the Case of Addis Ababa National League Clubs
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2014-04
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Addis Abeba university
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to identify the practices and challenges of
coaching leadership styles and players satisfaction that can which reflect on
the performance of players. For the implementation of the study, a descriptive
survey design was employed. The study subjects were selected from the availab
ility samples. In this attempt, data were collected through questionnaires,
interview and observation checklist. Four sample Ethiopian national league
participant clubs were selected, from nine clubs (Addis Ababa University, Bios
College, Addis Ababa police and federal police) national league clubs using
simple random sampling technique. Thus, the subjects in the study were 60
randomly selected football players from the four clubs and four coaches, four
managers were purposively selected The findings of the study indicated that,
following major problems are dominant in Addis Ababa league: understanding
level of the player, individual difference, family background of the player,
educational levels of the players and soon. These were the most difficulties that
faced to coaches to apply the best suited coaching leadership style to enhance
the player’s performance. At the end some recommendations were made for
observed challenges or problems o the coaching leadership style.
Key words: challenge, coaching, football, leadership, sport
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Challenge; Coaching; Football; Leadership; Sport