Large trees and more grass grew in the stadium during the last tow years and as the result Somali families started to take their cattle and goats into the stadium to use as a grazing land.

 

Somali football federation is now engaged in much work of cleaning and cutting the large trees in the stadium where also sanitation campaign was started on Sunday, so that Somali teenagers can play football there once again.

A high level delegation from Somali Olympic committee the Somali NOC and Somali football federation (SFF) on Monday went to stadium Mogadishu to supervise how the work is being done.

President of Somali Olympic committee Abdulkadeer Ibrahim Gaal affectionately known as Akow who held a press conference at the stadium on Monday said his organization is very happy that the nation’s Olympic village where stadium Mogadishu locates is now free and Somali youth can play again.

“Last year when I went to China for the Olympic Games I met with Chinese deputy sports minister and she pledged to me that china will rebuild stadium Mogadishu and the whole Olympic village if there is a reliable peace in Mogadishu so if the newly elected president whose Islamist fighters occupy most of the city succeeds to stabilize the capital I am hopeful that China will suddenly fulfill its promise” Somali NOC president told reporters at stadium Mogadishu on Monday.

“Now our football federation has started to do what it can such as cleaning and cutting the large trees inside the stadium and then we as Somali Olympic committee will do our best to repair the minor damages on the other parts of the Olympic village” Somali NOC first vice president Aden Haji Yabarow (wish) said during their visit to Stadium Mogadishu on Monday.

Somali football federation deputy president Ali Said Guled for his part said that his federation on Sunday started a campaign of cutting the large trees in the stadium and will then commence small repairing work so that the SFF can be able to hold football games there in the next few weeks.

Stadium Mogadishu was built by Chinese government in 1978; it hosted many continental and regional games and was once one of the most beautiful and largest football facilities in African and the Arab world, but currently seems to have changed into a grazing land.

Somalia has been without a functioning central government since the 1991 downfall of former Somali military rule of the late General Mohamed Siyad Barre.

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