Abstract:
The multi-event nature of football game possesses a particular challenge to
players and health professionals in managing, preventing, and treating injuries
especially during young age because each event in football presents with complex
problems. Thus the purpose of this study was to assess the causes, management of
football injury, and its impact on players performance in Ambo youth football
academy trainees. The subjects of the study were all youth football trainees thirty
(Male=33), two coaches (M=2) and two medical staff (1-nurse and 1
physiotherapy) working in the academy considered as source of information for
the study. Both primary and secondary data were collected from the respondents
through quantitatively and qualitatively. The method of data collection employed
were questionnaire for trainees‘ (closed-open ended), semi structured interview
for coaches and medical staff, depth document analysis and observation
thoroughly applied for gathering data. The data were analyzed by using simple
descriptive statistics such as percentage, frequency, mean SD and rank order to
summarize the results of the research objectives. The findings revealed that most
youth football trainees‘ injuries where externally occurred due to poor content
training manuals, lack of proper training facilities, lack of natural training pitch
and miss-treatment. Beside to this maturity level, over training, re-injury and
unrespecting football rule the common causes of sport injury in the academy,
theses were directly affect their football performance. The academy management
with stakeholders should give emphases on the identified issues that causes sport
injuries in order to equip the trainees with necessary performance.
