Former Somali National football squad Member and the
country’s still ‘a live’ most renowned sports veteran Haji Mohamed Ahmed Olow
told SFF soccer magazine that it was more than half a century ago when the last
Somali football club won the country’s division A league with the ‘unbeaten’
record.
"In Somalia’s football history Gaadiidka which previously
known as ‘Autobar’ was the first club who won the league title ‘unbeaten’ and
that was in 1956 and since then they have been the record holders until after
Banadir Sports club did the same record in 2014” Haji Olow said.
He explained that Gaadiidka won the league in three
successive years: 1955, 1956 and 1957 and finally they won in 1990 before the
country fell into anarchy.
The former Ocean starts playmaker Haji Mohamed Ahmed Olow
who retired in 1970 said that Banadir Sports Club must have been recognized as
‘history rewriters’ of Somalia’s most populous sporting competition, the SFF
nation Link Telecom championship. "I have more history and I am calling on Somali
journalists to come to me and write from me while I am still alive” said Haji
Mohamed Ahmed Olow.
Meanwhile, the chairman of Banadir sports club Abukar
Mohamed Sheik said he was very happy that his team made a giant history in
Somali football for the first time in more than half a century.
"I am really very proud that we have made a remarkable
history which coincides with my first year I am leading the club as its
chairman---it is impossible that you approach such victory in football without
investment, so I would like to thank all those who have invested in the club”
Mr. Abukar Mohamed Sheik said.
Somali Football federation Media Department
Email:somalifootballmedia@gmail.com