Volume 42, Issue 4, June 2024, Pages 696–704
Iloubo SALFO1, Songuifolo YEO2, Ouambi ZONGO3, Flore SONGNABA4, and Nadine HASHAR-NOE5
1 Institute of Sciences and Techniques of Physical and Sports Activities, Burkina Faso
2 National Institute of Youth and Sports of Houphouët Boigny University of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
3 Institute of Sciences and Techniques of Physical and Sports Activities, Burkina Faso
4 Thomas Sankara University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
5 University of Toulouse 3, France
Original language: English
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Sport in general and football in particular has evolved exponentially since its introduction to Africa through settlers. A framework for the expression of different football nations, the African Football Cup of Nations, which is organized every two years, allows the different national teams to measure themselves and evaluate the degree of progress in this discipline. The Burkinabè national football team «Stallons» participates with checkered results in recent years. The objective of this research was to study the factors which explain the instability of the performance of the Stallions during the last three (3) editions of the African Cup of Nations. A qualitative methodological approach made it possible to investigate with 30 people made up of players, technical staff, executives from the Ministry of Sports and Leisure, federal members, sports journalists and supporters. The results obtained show that the Stallions have quality players and have encountered opponents of a somewhat high level. It also appears that poor management of the workforce caused the poor results. There is a need for reorganization and rejuvenation of the national team.
Author Keywords: Performance, National team, African Cup of Nations, Burkina Faso.
Iloubo SALFO1, Songuifolo YEO2, Ouambi ZONGO3, Flore SONGNABA4, and Nadine HASHAR-NOE5
1 Institute of Sciences and Techniques of Physical and Sports Activities, Burkina Faso
2 National Institute of Youth and Sports of Houphouët Boigny University of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
3 Institute of Sciences and Techniques of Physical and Sports Activities, Burkina Faso
4 Thomas Sankara University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
5 University of Toulouse 3, France
Original language: English
Copyright © 2024 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Sport in general and football in particular has evolved exponentially since its introduction to Africa through settlers. A framework for the expression of different football nations, the African Football Cup of Nations, which is organized every two years, allows the different national teams to measure themselves and evaluate the degree of progress in this discipline. The Burkinabè national football team «Stallons» participates with checkered results in recent years. The objective of this research was to study the factors which explain the instability of the performance of the Stallions during the last three (3) editions of the African Cup of Nations. A qualitative methodological approach made it possible to investigate with 30 people made up of players, technical staff, executives from the Ministry of Sports and Leisure, federal members, sports journalists and supporters. The results obtained show that the Stallions have quality players and have encountered opponents of a somewhat high level. It also appears that poor management of the workforce caused the poor results. There is a need for reorganization and rejuvenation of the national team.
Author Keywords: Performance, National team, African Cup of Nations, Burkina Faso.
How to Cite this Article
Iloubo SALFO, Songuifolo YEO, Ouambi ZONGO, Flore SONGNABA, and Nadine HASHAR-NOE, “ANALYSIS OF THE PERFORMANCE OF BURKINA FASO NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM DURING THE LAST THREE EDITIONS OF AFRICAN FOOTBALL CUP OF NATIONS (2015, 2017, 2019),” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 696–704, June 2024.
