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WITH THE FIRST EVER CAF seminar for African soccer media officers under way in Cameroon, Somali FA media officer has attracted CAF praise for hardworking and commitment to his role within the federation.

In his post election address, the newly-elected Somali Football Federation President Mr. Abdi Qani Said Arab displayed a complete strategic plan for football development in the country with women's football and beach soccer creation to be one of the main priories as shown in the new work plans.

The former president of Somali Football federation Ali Said Guled Roble who quitted the election a little while before the start of the second round of the election, has scintillatingly embraced his successor Abdi Qani Said Arab to congratulate him on the landslide victory during the 6th election congress…

Somali Football Federation's long time secretary General Abdi Qani Said Arab has been elected as the new president of the SFF during the 6th election congress held here in the capital Mogadishu on Sunday 31st of August 2014.

The International Football Federation (FIFA) has praised the media department of the Somali Football Federation for accomplishing a fantastic work terming the publication of SFF magazine a 'good example'.

Somalia, a country recovering from decades-long civil wars, currently sees a better football future, as the country's football federation (SFF) stakeholders showed full satisfaction with the 2014 developmental strategy plus what has been recognized by the stakeholders as 'unprecedented'…

The president of the federal republic of Somalia Professor Hassan Sheik Mahmoud has confessed that football was a major element used for peace building, youth development, public integration and prevention of violence in Somalia, thanking the world's football governing body (FIFA) for its continued…

Referring to Somali president's commitment to support football development in the country, the council of east and central Africa football associations (CECAFA) has vehemently lauded for Somali president's comprehension of football's importance for peace and integration in the war-weary…

For the first time in nearly ten years, a key figure from Somali Football Federation is one of the 2013 FIFA beach soccer world cup administrators in Tahiti, a move that was described as a "signal" for the return of Somalia's involvement in the administration of world football after Farah…

With the conclusion of the first ever FIFA grassroots coaching course in Somalia on Monday 19th of August 2013, the world football governing body has confirmed the successful implementation of President Blatter's 'touch the world' initiative in the war-ridden country where FIFA has reached…

Somali Football Federation administrative representative in the UK and the chairman of White Star Association Dr. Abdi Olad Rageh has presided a farewell luncheon ceremony held in London for the visiting Djibouti football Federation President and FIFA commissioner Mr. Souleiman Hassan Waberi who has…

The Haringey-based Lordship Rec FC has shown a wonder at the London Children's football tournament after its U-12 Somali children won the Enfield council-organised football competition which gathered nearly hundred children's football teams from across London and surrounding areas, while Lordship…

There has been a colourful conclusion ceremony to the high level professional sports medicine workshop which has been under way at the Sahafi International Hotel in Mogadishu between 8-9 May 2013 with at least 45 medical volunteers including six women benefitting from the Somali Football Federation…

Somali Football has on Wednesday launched a two-day sports medicine workshop for medical university students, hospital nurses and volunteers from Somali Red Crescent society in a bid to increase the quality and quantity of its own professional sports medicine volunteers across the football growing country.

The council of east and central Africa football associations (CECAFA) has taken this year's Kagame Club cup to the war-ravaged western Sudanese regions of Darfur and Gordofan in a bid to encourage peace and football development in the war-torn areas, Secretary General Nicholas Musonye announced…

In his attempts to develop his country's football from the very bottom, President Souleiman Hassan Waberi has realised his past dreams of creating beach soccer development committee which successfully organized the first ever beach soccer tournament in Djibouti's football history.

Somali Football federation has inaugurated the country's 2013 football stars tournament with Nation Link Telecom's E-maal team defeating their Singjet rivals by 3-2 in the opening match at the Somali University stadium on Monday afternoon in the presence of high profile government and SFF officials.

With Just ten days to go to the first anniversary of the death of former Somali Football Federation President Said Mahmoud Nur and former Somali NOC president Aden Haji Yeberow, Somali youths in the central town of Galkayo are remembering the country's sports developers with a two-week long football…

Back on 3 January, during a mid-season friendly between Pro Patria and AC Milan, Ghana international Kevin-Prince Boateng became the target of racist chanting from a section of the home crowd. He reacted by walking off the pitch, with the rest of his team-mates and the AC Milan coaching staff following…

We committed considerable resources during the bidding process to prove that the cooling technology (which will cool open-air stadiums, training grounds and outdoor fan areas) works. The technology is already in use since 2008 at Al Sadd Stadium. During the bid we demonstrated that this technology could…