The Somali national football U 17 squad has on Tuesday returned home from Kenya, as a national welcome ceremony was held for them at Mogadishu’s Aden Adde airport.

Government officials and authorities from Somali Olympics, Somali football federation and fans received the national team members at the airport where they have been waiting since early morning on Tuesday.

 

Hundreds of well wishers holding wet leaves and waving the Somali flag were standing along side the high way from Somali football federation head quarters to the airport to great the victorious team.

 

Over the weekend Somalia qualified for the second round of the African youth championships after a 0-0 draw during a hotly contested match at the Oserian stadium against their Kenyan counterparts whom they humiliated 3-1 in the first leg earlier in the month.

 

Promoting from the first round, Somali youngsters will face Egypt on August 27 this year, according to the fixtures of the CAF competition.

 

Last night Somali ambassador to Kenya Mohamed Ali Nur (Ameriko) held a farewell dinner for the team at the Barakat hotel in Nairobi where he rewarded the youngsters with cash for their efforts to defend Somalia’s flag and dignity.

 

President of Somali football federation Said Mahmoud Nur who is currently in Jeddah Saudi Arabia for the election congress of the Union of Arab football Associations said in a telephone conversation that next week Somali football federation will hold the  biggest ever ceremony for the team where top level Somali government officials will address the team.

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