Practice and Challenges Of Sport administration In The Development Of Football In Bale Zone sport Office

Abstract

The purpose of this study was assessing the practices and challenges of administration in football development in Bale zone. To achieve the intended objective of this study cross sectional survey design were employed to study the problem. The data were collected totally from 84 by purposive method selection in Bale zone within seven werada sport office56 experts and 28 management officials. To collect pertinent data, the researcher employed/used liker scaled questionnaires and interview guides. The data collected was analyzed into descriptive statistics of frequencies, percentage, mean ,standard division and qualitative descriptions. The result indicated there are a lot of factors that challenge the development of football administration in Bale Zone. These are lack of support, encouragement and guidance to football from officials, shortage of necessary equipment for football in terms of quality and quantity, low commitment and work for football from sport officials and management, unsatisfactory relationship between sport officials and football clubs, the absence of medical experts and facilities, shortage of budget allocated for football, lack of well experienced experts in the area. The current status of football in the mentioned area was not good. It was decreasing from time to time according to report of bale zone football federation (2011). As indicated in the result part the practice was less interesting and the development of the profession was very weak. This was the result of the abovementioned challenges and factors. Especially shortage of budget allocation was raised as the major constraint. The result recommends organizing a football club can be successful and effective if it was supported by appropriate facilities and equipment because they were the essential parts for the development of football sport.