The Somali National U-20 football squad which arrived in Asmara early on Thursday morning will take on Sudan in its first game of the 2010 CECAFA peace and friendship tournament which will kick off on Saturday with Eritrea and Tanzania clashing in the opening match.

According to the fixtures of the match the clash between Somalia and Sudan will take place at Asmara Stadium at about 4:00PM local time on Sunday coinciding with Somalia being fasting because of the Muslim holly month of Ramadan.

 

The CECAFA organizing committee said that it will consider time amendments after Sunday’s match and that is because some of the Muslim countries participating in the tournament demanded for time changes.

Somalia will play its second game against Tanzania on Tuesday and that match will take place at the Asmara Stadium at about 2:00PM local time.

 

National teams from nine countries are chasing the trophy, 25 golden medals and 10,000 USD which will be given as a reward to the winning team, according top the CECAFA secretary General Nicholas Musonye.

 

It is the first time for a Somali team to arrive in Eritrea which is its self hosting the big regional football event for the first time in history.

 

Before leaving from Mogadishu on Wednesday, the Somali Football Federation Secretary General Abdi Qani Said Arab told his team members that they will get a very expensive award if they are victorious in the competition and if they are humiliated will instead all be fired and will not represent the nation in future times .

 

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