IMPACT OF SPORT INJURY ON SELECTED NATIONAL LEAGUE MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS’ PERFORMANCE: THE CASE OF OROMIA SPECIAL ZONE SURROUNDING FINFINNE, OROMIA REGIONAL STATE, ETHIOPIA.

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to assess Impact of Sport Injury on Selected National League Football Male Players’ Performance of Oromia Special Zone Surrounding Finfine. In addition the objectives were to identify the common injury occurs during training and game, to identify the determinant factors of injury on football players, to identify the impact of sport injury on football players. To address the objectives, descriptive research design was used, primary data and also a mixed research methods (i. e. An approach of both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods) were used to collect data from National League Football Male Players, physiotherapists and coaches. The major findings were about a result, they were exposed to injury while they were in training and match, 71% of the football players of the study area had faced injuries while they were on training and match, about 86% of football player respondents faced injuries on their leg, 81% on their knee and shoulders of the respondents was very common. On the other hand 57% faced injuries on their hands. While injuries on the football players’ head, neck, waist, and quadriceps very low and rarely occur. The conclusions were that lead them for injury while they were in training and match; the study reaches at a conclusion that football players of the study area had faced injuries while they were on training and match. Therefore, the Oromia region and National League Football Clubs should take into consideration to build infrastructure fields, where football players could be saved in performing trainings as well as competitions and Football players should select safe training and competition place, they should take a balanced nutritional die , they should also not conduct similar training for many times, and make proper warming up, cooling down and stretching, perform training and competition with proper cloth.