KNOWLEDGE, INTEREST AND ATTITUDE OF FOOTBALL PLAYERS TOWARDS SPORT NUTRITION OF WOLAITTA DICHA FOOTBALL TEAM

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 .