Investigation of the relationship between creative ideas and motivations of football club players in Duhok province

In this study, it was aimed to investigate the relationship between the creative ideas and motivation of club coaches and players in Duhok province. 33 amateur and professional athletes actively playing football in football clubs in Duhok province in 2018-209 season 33 (18.1%) 17-20 years, 52 (28.6%) 21-24 years, 60 (33.0%) A total of 182 people, 25-28 years of age, 37 (20.3%) of 29 and older, participated. Creative thinking scale and motivation scale in sports were applied to the volunteers who participated in the study. After determining that the data in the study had normal distribution, independent sample t test was used for group comparisons of two, One-Way Anova test for more than 2 groups and correlation analysis to determine the relationship between them. It was applied. The relationship between creative thinking and motivation of the participants is shown in Table 10. As a result of the study, a positive relationship was found in the direction of creative thinking and a statistically significant result was found (p <0.05). In conclusion, according to the findings of our study, it can be said that creative thinking positively affects motivation and the motivation of the creative thinking person may be high. In this context, providing trainings to enable people to think creatively may affect motivation positively Keywords: football, motivation, creative thinking