Challenge And Progress Of Some Selected Football Teams In Bale Zone, Oromia Regional State

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was investigating the challenge and Progress of football in Bale zone focusing on two teams (i.e Robe and Gobakenema football teams). The researcher employed a descriptive survey with mixed approach (qualitative and quantitative) as a method of data analysis, because, this method provides the researcher with detail description of the existing condition about a problem under investigation. To achieve the intended objectives the researcher employed questionnaires, interview and observation check list as a tool to collect the data. Thus, the subjects in the study were 44 football players, 4coaches, 2 team’s leaders and 1 Zone sport commission head, 5 football federation members and 4 higher institution instructors, 4 former players. The major finding of this study were, lack of sufficient budget, insufficient sport materials, absence of balanced incentives/ salary/, and non-existence of attention from higher bodies of a teams and zonal sport commission office were identified as a problem for the development of football to Robe and Gobakineme football teams. Hence, it’s concluded that, budget, sport facilities, lack of incentives and related factors are the barriers that contribute to the declination of football to Robe and Gobakineme football teams. Thus, it is recommended that the teams administrators and Zonal sport commission office need to look in to these problems in detail. The regional and federal football federation ought to pay attention to minimize these and other related problems in order to improve football at Zonal as well as in the word level.