"This year FIFA has approved another artificial turf project
for Somalia which will be fitted with the Somali University Stadium, where we
have been using since 2010” Somali Football Federation Secretary General Abdi
Qani Said Arab said in his press statement.
The facility is an open ground that hosted many competitions
and in a bid to make it an international standard stadium the Somali Football
federation requested FIFA such great artificial turf installation project for the
ill-equipped facility that has already been approved by FIFA.
"Today Friday the 1st of November 2013 Somali
football Federation is happy to announce that such tangible victory has been achieved
with all assistances from FIFA” Somali Football Federation Secretary General
Abdi Qani Said Arab noted in his press statement on Friday.
"FIFA has also approved the second goal project for
Somalia to build headquarters and technical centre for Somali Football
Federation at the Somali University—we are fully grateful to FIFA under the
leadership of President Joseph. S. Blatter for its continued financial and
moral support assistances to Somalia "the secretary Genera mentioned in his
press statement.
The statement expressed that earlier this year,
authorities of Somali National Universities donated the university field to
Somali Football federation in an agreement that was jointly signed by the civil
service development ministry, the SFF and SNU.
"The civil service development ministry and the SNU are praiseworthy
and their generosity shows how Somali government and its institutions are
committed to the promotion of football in the country---on the behalf of SFF I
declare here with a loud voice that we couldn’t achieve such progress without a
government” Somali Football Federation Secretary General Abdi Qani Said Arab
insisted.
The statement said that an international construction
company the GREEN COVER contacted SFF earlier in October in a bid to send a delegate
to try to visit the Somali University stadium where FIFA accepted to install
with artificial Turf as the company is weighting to achieve the FIFA contract
to rebuild the facility.
"An official from
GREEN COVER contacted me on the matter relating to the arrival of a delegate from
them and we assured to the company that Somalia was happy to receive their representative
here in Mogadishu where we have extended a warm welcome to Mr. Per Morgan
Jagervall who arrived in Capital on Monday 28th of October on the
invitation of Somali Football federation” Secretary General Abdi Qani Said Arab
said in his press statement.
During his stay in Mogadishu Mr Jagervall explained to
Somali Football Federation that the main objective of his visit to Mogadishu was
part of the efforts by his company to win the contract from FIFA who approved
two main projects for Somalia early this year.
"I am fully thankful to Somali Football Federation for
the warm welcome they extended to me from the day of my arrival up to the
moment—I visited many places including the lido Beach resort of Mogadishu where
I have had a lovely stay” Mr Jagervall” said at the end of his four day stay in
Somali Capital on Friday.
However, Somali Football federation Secretary General
Abdi Qani Said Arab declared that the SFF was welcoming all international
construction companies who are in contract agreements with FIFA to the country.
"Somalia is open to every construction company in the FIFA tender agreement” Secretary General Abdi Qani Said Arab said in his press statement.
This would be another major success for Somali Football
Federation who this year successfully carried out the first ever grassroots
coaching course for the war-devastated country.
Somali Football Federation Media Department
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