Ethiopian female soccer players preferences of coaching behavior and satisfaction

One of the most important goals of the coach is to create a good learning situation where athletes can acquire the skill needed to succeed as individual and as a team. The purpose of the present study is to examine what female soccer players prefers of their coaches behavior and satisfied by different traits of their coaches behaviors. Female soccer players of Ethiopian National team (30), premiere league(45) and higher division players(20) completed the preferred version of the Coaching Behavior Question(CBQ) which examines coaching behaviors;1) Reinforcement, 2) Non-Reinforcement, 3) Mistake Contingent Encouragement, 4) Mistake Contingent Technical Instruction, 5) Punishment, 6) Punitive Technical Instruction, 7) Ignoring Mistake, 8) Keeping Control, 9)General Technical Instruction, 10) General Encouragement, 11) Organization, 12) General Communication. The items of athletes satisfaction Questionnaires addressees the most aspect of Athletes participation; 1) Personal treatment satisfaction, 2) Training and Instruction satisfaction, 3) Individual performance satisfaction, and 4) Team performance satisfaction. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics. Result showed that players prefer mostly General Technical Instruction (M=17.6, SD=1.75) and General Encouragement (M=15.7, SD=2.49).and also the players are satisfied with their current team performance. Thus, coaches can use different mechanisms to satisfy and motivate female players for optimum result.