Women Football Premier League In Ethiopia And Its Contribution To The National Team

Football is the most popular sport worldwide and the number of female participants is growing rapidlyrnand undergoing constant transformation. Although, it is now claimed to be the fastest growing sector asrnworldwide football and its popularity is continuing into the foreseeable future. And the popularity ofrnfootball has certainly led to its development among women. Ethiopian football federation started womenrnfootball premier league since 2004 E.C. and this year (2006) 17 clubs are being participated in thernleague. The number of young girls deciding to professionally take up football; indeed, it is a good steprnforward when it is compared to past history of women football. But still it faced barriers and needrnimprovement regarding attitude towards women’s participation in football, but this research tries tornidentify the contribution of the league to the national team, measure the degree of motivation on playersrnand juniors, assessing the development of women’s participation in football finally problems that holdrnback its contribution and development. And both primary and secondary data was used to collectrninformation related to women football and 184 respondents are participated. Federation officials, FootballrnFans, Sport Journalist, women Premier league Coaches, Players of women premier league are samplernpopulation and document review were collected as secondary data. Sport can be an important tool forrnsocial empowerment through the skills and values learned, In addition to its beneficial effects of regularrnparticipation in sport and physical activity the beginning of football premier league in Ethiopia creates arngood opportunities to the development of women participation, improved the degree of motivation onrnplayers and who wants to be a players in the future. Because it used as a means to player’s enjoyment,rnball skill improvement, insight the nature of the game, and fitness development; as well as it givesrnchances to the players to show their talent, test their skills and improve their performance thoroughrnparticipation in the league of football. And the majority of the national team players also obtained fromrnpremier league participant clubs and it used as a good source of player to the national team. Butrnfindings showed the negative attitude towards women’s football continue to exist within various sectorsrnof the society in Ethiopian. Such attitudes reflect a society that is not entirely prepared to embrace thernwomen’s game also this research revealed that, players performance can be affected by different factorsrnlike uncooperativeness of the federation with clubs; lack of support and cooperation from parents andrnthe community; lack of player’s motivation and commitment are among the majors. This should be thernmain concern of the federation and should work in collaboration with clubs officials, Medias andrndifferent stakeholders to improve its contribution.rnkey wordrn: - (contribution, participation, development,premier league

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