Abstract:
Football is the most popular sport in the world. It can be played by young and old, boys and
girls elite and physically or mentally challenged and on a smaller or wide field. The main
objective of this study was to assess the managerial practices and current status of women
football development project in jijiga city. To achieve this objective, the study used random
sampling method to select woman football the researcher used both qualitative and
quantitative research method,; it was more of descriptive survey. The major finding of this
study was the coaches in the jijiga city administration are not well trained, the quality and
nature of coaching is poor, the lack of sport wearing, football equipment and facilities. The
jijiga city administration youth and sport office doesn’t have monitoring and evaluation for
the projects. The total population of the study 84 football project players, 3 coaches and 3
sport officers. From 48 players respondent of this research 15(31.3%) were strongly agree
about their coach training management style, 26(54.2%) were agree about their coach
training management style and the remaining 7(14.6%) were disagree about their coach
training management style. From the total of 48 respondents 23(47.9%) were always assist by
their coach in each session, 23(47.9%) were sometimes assist by their coach in each session
and the remaining 2(4.25) were not assist by their coach in each session. Based on the
findings the following recommendations were suggested the coaches who are assigned in the
projects must be qualified. coaches should have to identify the talent of the female players,
players must strictly follow up there train session with great proficiency, the offices are
expected to arrange and supply basic needs to the projects like pure water, training field, technical aids and prepare additional training to the existing coaches and the players parent
should have a good awareness about the importance of football their children, and
themselves.
