Causes And Management Of Sport Injuries And Its Impact On Male Football Performance Among Ambo Youth Football Academy Trainees

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.