More than 30 Somali football referees of different categories on Thursday morning sat for a four-day training seminar at Mogadishu’ Sahafi International hotel where they will be taking theory lesson for the next three days, while the practice will take place at the Somali Police academy in the afternoons.

High profile dignitaries from Somali Football Federation addressed at the opening ceremony of the four-day training workshop which is intended to enhance the knowledge of Somali soccer referees.

 

Somali Football Federation Secretary General Abdi Qani Said Arab who first addressed at the opening ceremony said that the main point of holding this workshop is to develop the referees’ education.

 

“We have three main important objectives from this workshop, the 1^st one is to build up the referees’ experience, the 2^nd is to distinguish those who are committed to this kind of job from the others and the 3^rd is to evaluate the level of each referee” the Somali Football Federation Secretary General Mr. Abdi Qani Said Arab told the opening ceremony Thursday.

 

“Somali Football needs to be fully developed so from now on we have come to decision to increase the refereeing, coaching and the sports medicine seminars and we will spend more than 80% of our capacity and time on this sector” Mr. Abdi Qani said in his opening remarks.

 

He added that each referee will be valued with how hard he works directing his speech to the participants of the workshop.

 

The secretary General said that his federation is responsible for the referees’ healthy care, to find them suitable fields to fulfill their duties, to enhance their education, to give them enough equipment and to create jobs for them adding that any one who fails to accomplish his duty will be deleted from the list of Somali soccer referees.

 

Finally, Somali Football Federation acting president Abdullahi Awow Hussein who addressed at the opening ceremony told the referees that his federation will as much as it can try to enhance their knowledge adding that in return the referees are wanted to have advantage from such hard effort being spent on them.

 

“The referees are a base for the justice so we urge you to make justice when ever you are mediating any game” the acting president said announcing that the workshop is open.

 

Former Somali International football referees and current instructors Hassan Mohamed Mahmoud, Ali Mohamed Ahmed, Hassan Sheylilah Adde and Aweys Ahmed Jimaale are teaching at the four-day workshop which will end on Sunday.

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