Somalia has made a progress as soccer referees have been seen using the wireless referee communication system at the start of the 2016-2017 Somali National football league.
Somali Football federation has on Wednesday [November, 9] concluded the first FIFA youth refereeing course to be conducted in the country under the auspice of the world football's governing association [FIFA].
It is a big approach and an unprecedented opportunity for young Somali referees who were all born during the country's civil wars, to benefit from their FIFA youth refereeing course to be organized in the war-weary horn of African nation.
Somalia has officially inaugurated the first ever football league for children under the age of 15 who have gained the opportunity to enjoy a domestic football league of their own.
Somali Football Federation has on Saturday launched the 3rd phase of the regional football development program for the semiautonomous Somali state of Galmudug in the city of Galkayo about 750 kilometers north of the capital Mogadishu.
The media coverage for the 2016 Somali Inter-state football tournament has been very high, as local and international media did their best to make a very professional coverage.
The president of the federal republic of Somalia Prof. Hassan Sheik Mahmoud, said that the country's first Inter-state football tournament has marked an enormous sign of peace and development in the country.
Although they were shocked by an early goal from their opponent's side, the semiautonomous Somali regional state of puntland clinched a great victory after defeating Jubbaland state rivals 5-3 on penalties to lift the country's first ever Inter-state football competition on Tuesday.
The president of the federal republic of Somalia, Prof Hassan Sheik Mahmoud, has on Friday launched the first ever inter-state football tournament since after Somalia took the federal system just more than a decade ago.
The world Football's governing body [FIFA], in collaboration with Somali Football Federation, has concluded a 5-day FIFA MA refereeing course for Somalia in the capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, 13th of July.
The Somali Football Federation [SFF] has on Wednesday 1st of June launched the 3rd phase of training courses for regional soccer coaches and referees in the city of Jowhar some 90 kilometers north of the capital Mogadishu.
The Somali Football Federation has on Thursday 31st of March 2016, launched three football development courses in the City of Kismayo, the provincial capital of the semiautonomous Somali regional state of Jubbaland.
For the first time in history, Somalia has been able to successfully hold its CAF "C" license coaching course, with qualified Somali instructors conducted the course, while previously the African football governing body [CAF] had sent foreign instructors to teach Somali coaches.
Somali Football Federation [SFF] has donated complete office equipment to the football association in the regional Somali state of Puntland, which moved to a new headquarters over the weekend.
Somali Football Federation has on Saturday (February, 6) launched three football development courses in the semiautonomous Somali state of Puntland, North east of the country.
Somalia's National football squad [the Ocean Stars], will camp in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, for a month ahead of their first leg of the preliminary round of 2018 World cup qualifiers in October.
The federal government of Somalia has expressed a feeling of great happiness and triumph over the organization of the yearly youth soccer tournament, which was described by a top ministry of sport official as a 'sign for peace' and development.
Hundreds of Somali orphans at Turkey's Anatolia Boarding school have high hopes and expectations of becoming future national team members, as they marked the end of the first six months of formal football training sessions.
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…