The FIFA media relations Manager Mrs. Segolene Valentin made the announcement at the launch of CECAFA communications seminar in Dar Es Salaam on May 1stas she praised Somali Football Federation for successfully accomplishing all media and communications-related developments.
She
said that Somali Football Federation’s media department was fully praiseworthy
for making such tangible progress.
"This
is the work that every media officer could do” FIFA Media relations manager
Mrs. Segolene Valentin said as she held the SFF activity report magazine in her
hand, praising the beautiful job done by the Somali FA media department under
the leadership of chief media officer Shafi’i Mohyaddin Abokar.
Cecafa President
Leodegar Tenga thanked Fifa for facilitating the communication seminar for the
region to see what ought to be put in place.
"We have worked since
2012 to have this work shop take place. I met with Emmanuel Maradas of Fifa
media to discuss the possibility of organising and it has materialised at long
last. It is of immense benefit.”
"CECAFA is committed to doing its utmost to develop
the media and administration sectors of its member associations” secretary
General Nicholas Musonye said during his address at the launching ceremony of
the two-day workshop. Musonye said he was very hopeful that such seminars
will continue to help develop media and communications sectors of the CECAFA-member
nations.
Somali Football Federation assistant secretary
General Amir Abdi Hassan who addressed at the seminar outlined the policy and
the annual activity plans of the Somali Football Federation Media department
which has been publishing the SFF magazine for the past several years.
"Somali Football Federation believes that without
an organized and professional media football cannot grow and that is why the
SFF had decided to invest in the media department which is the responsible body
and hugely worked that our messages appear in the news headlines everywhere in
the world and that FIFA is fully aware of what we are doing day by day” Mr.
Amir Abdi Hassan noted.
"We also keep good cooperative relations with the privately-owned
and as well as the pubic media both in the country and the outside world and the
Somali Football Federation believes that media is a major stakeholder---I want
to thank our media officer Shafi’i Mohyaddin Abokar for maintaining good
relations with the local and international media” Mr. Amir Abdi Hassan explained.
The head of FIFA development programmes Mr. Cyrl
loisel and the head of FIFA digital media Fabrice Deschamps and as well as Nicolas Maingot the Deputy
Director of Communications & Public Affairs at Fifa delivered lectures at the 2-day
seminar which was the first of its kind ever held for the CECAFA region.
Somali Football Federation Media Department
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