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Dignitaries of the Somali football federation lead by the first vice president Ali said Guled on Thursday visited the nation's oldest football facility, Stadium Banadir which is currently under construction

Lesotho's Under 17 junior national football side, the Bahlabani, left the country on Thursday for a four-nation tournament to be staged in South Africa.

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Somali football federation has over the weekend launched a training program for young men aged between 14-16 years as part of Somali football federation's annual schedule to create professional young footballers to defend the country's flag in future football games.

End to two years of occupation by Ethiopian forces who were backing the Somalia's weak government, the country's largest football facility stadium Mogadishu is now a grazing land where near by families daily drive their cattle and goats for grazing inside the stadium.

The President of Somalia's national unity government Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed asked the leaders of Somali football federation to help his government establish sport for peace programs to score peace and public integration in the country through football games.

The Gambian Premier League Soccer team, Samger, has announced its withdrawal from this year's Confederation of African Football (CAF) Confederation Cup competition, making it the second Gambian team to withdraw from a CAF competition this year.

South Africans are confident like never before about the prospects of the nation staging a successful 2010 FIFA World Cup but concerns in the areas of crime and pricing troubled them.

Zimbabwe's CAPS United FC will be hoping for maximum points when it takes on Victors FC of Uganda in a CAF Confederation Cup preliminary round tie in Kampala on Saturday.

BEIRUT, January 28, 2009 - Lebanese sports journalists and media personnel took part in a charity game against Lebanese football coaches in support of the children and people of Gaza in Beirut on Monday, January 26.

Stadium Mogadishu, Somalia's largest football play ground was constructed in 1978, and it was once one of the largest and most beautiful stadiums in Africa and the Arab world but the different situations and hardships it has been under going since 1991 made its appearance as Jungle-like and very terrifying.

Hundreds of angry Somali football fans and players burned kiosks built in football stadium in the southern key port town of Kismayo over the week end protesting against the use of the stadium as market, residents and Eye witnesses said Monday.

LAUSANNE, January 26, 2009 - There are only three days left for AIPS member National Associations to submit motions, proposals and candidature for the 2009 election congress to be held in Milan, Italy.

Rwanda and Mali are out of the CAF Under-20 tourney after losing in the group finals Saturday at Amahoro National Stadium and the Kigali Regional stadium respectively.

Two years after Ethiopian military occupation a high level delegation from Somali football federation early on Thursday morning visited the nation's largest football site the Stadium Mogadishu as Ethiopian forces vacated from it on Wednesday.

Somali national football squad nicknamed as Ocean stars which is participating in the 10-nation CECAFA senior challenge cup on Saturday defeated its Tanzanian rival goal to nothing during a hotly contested game at the Nakivubo football stadium in Ugandan Capital Campala.

In a press statement Somali football federation on Saturday sent a condolence with a big grievance to all Somali people and in particular to Somalia's sporting family over Friday's sorrowful deaths of Somali basketball coaches Omar Mohamed Omar affectionately known as Anyeelo and Ibrahim Jumaale Abdi…

Somali national football squad has defeated Djibouti's national soccer team 3-2 in a friendly football match held In Djibouti late on Tuesday.

Somali Prime minister Nur Hassan Hussein Adde has promised a full support for the nation's sport which is reviving from years of conflicts during a meeting with Somali football dignitaries at the Kempniski Hotel in Djibouti last night.

At least 20 Somali first-division football referees have sat down for a three-day training course at the Hotel Jeddah in Mogadishu on Tuesday.