Somali national football team is in its final preparation for the upcoming CECAFA senior Challenge scup which will kick off in Uganda later this month.

Somali national team members who have been taking daily training in Djibouti for the last three months seem to have made their biggest preparations in Djibouti since they can not have a suitable location to train in Mogadishu, because the nation’s largest football site Mogadishu Stadium is occupied by Ethiopian forces helping the Somali transitional federal government, while Banadir Stadium is being reconstructed under the “Win in Africa with Africa Project” funded by the world football governing body FIFA.

 

Somali national football squad will have the first game with Zanzibar on 1^st January 2009 and its captain Abdulkadeer Sheik Osman popularly known as Bakiyaa said they are very hopeful to score a tangible success during the upcoming CECAFA senior challenge cup.

 

“This year our players are fully prepared and we are confident to return with an unprecedented victory” Said Somali football federation general Secretary Abdi Qani Said Arab who has been holding the national team members in Djibouti for training for the last three months.

 

The CECAFA Senior Challenge cup will continue in Uganda from December 31 2008 to January 13 2009 and Somalia is in group A with Zanzibar, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda, while Kenya, Burundi, Sudan, Zambia and Djibouti are in group B.

 

Somalia’s national infrastructures have totally collapsed during 18 years of anarchy and civil wars, but Somali national Olympic committee with the help of its member federations succeeded to raise the lawless nation’s flag in the international sports gatherings representing the war-devastated horn of African country of Somalia.

 

 

Somali Football press Department

 

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