Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge, interest and attitude of football players
towards sport nutrition in case of wolaitta dicha football team. Thus, the Subjects in the study
were including 52 players and 6 coaches from Wolaitta dicha football team players. They
were selected purposely the subject completed a nutritional knowledge, interest and attitude
questionnaire. To attain the desire objectives the study a descriptive survey based on
structured questionnaire was conducted. Data were analyzed with quantitative method and
spss (20). The result of the study revealed that this mean overall nutritional knowledge,
interest and attitude scores for football players’ was 64.62 and 40.29 respectively, age of
players correlated positively with nutritional attitude of players, no statistical significant mean
difference between players having cultural influence and fasting habits with players who have
no cultural influence and fasting habits towards nutritional interest and attitude, no statistical
significant mean difference between players with different playing position and playing
experience towards nutrition, in addition drinking alcohol affects the footballer’s
performances, so that the coaches and football club administrators keep or manage their
players from alcohol abuse and athletes must be give great attention to develop good habits of
water intake before, during and after training in addition the whole day, which contributes to
develop good performance by increasing excise performance .
