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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.

Somali national football team is in its final preparation for the upcoming CECAFA senior Challenge scup which will kick off in Uganda later this month.

The Iraq national football team is due to meet a team of European stars in a friendly and charitable match in Milan on December 22 with the match proceeds going to needy children in Iraq and other war-torn nations.

Two observers from FIFA are expected to arrive in Dar es Salaam on Thursday ahead of Tanzania's football federation's (TFF)polls set for Sunday.

The World football governing body, FIFA unveiled a book on the history of African football at a press conference in Paris on Monday, somsoccer.com learnt from the institution's official website here.

The wheel of violence and hostility against the free word and press keeps on rolling in Iraq with another colleague down last week.

More than 300 African sports journalists from all the 53 African countries will be invited to attend training next year as part of a program financed by the world football governing body FIFA.

THE Confederation of East and Central African football Associations (Cecafa) has postponed this year's regional U-17 Youth Championships due to financial constraints.

The Somali National Olympic Committee (NOC) and the Somali-language RAAD Satellite Television on Tuesday signed a co-operation agreement during a ceremony held at the NOC headquarters in Mogadishu, the capital.

The reconstruction of Somalia's oldest football site, Stadium Banadir is due to be completed by early next year, Engineers revealed on Sunday.

Somali National Olympic committee first vice president Aden Hajji Yabarow wiish called for Somali national sporting federations to broaden their activities through all Somalia and hold the regional games as the football is currently doing.

Somali national football federation has launched a sophisticated and bilingual website as part of the progressive steps recently taken by the federation which has been working in a war-ravaged country for last 18 years.

The most populous funeral ceremony to be witnessed in recent years has been held in Mogadishu on Tuesday Morning for the late International Somali-sports veteran Farah Wehlie Addo.

President of the world football governing body FIFA Joseph S. Blatter said in a condolence letter he sent to Confederation of African football and Somali football federation that with the sudden death of Farah Wehliye Addo, the world has lost a great sports veteran.

The body of Former president of east-central African football federation, Somali National Olympic committee and Somali football federation Farah Wehlie Addo will be laid to rest in Somali Capital Mogadishu on Tuesday. Farah Addo has died in Egypt on Wednesday night.

The second round of 18th Somali regional qualifying football match opens on Thursday November 20 in Garowe, the provincial capital of the semiautonomous Somali region of Punt land.