Leading an SFF evaluation committee, the president has
checked different parts in the facility including the dressing rooms, post
match press conference room, toilets, electricity availability and other
important parts in the stadium to see how the rebuilding process is under way and
to find out if the stadium was ready to host the most populous Somali sporting
event.
"It will be a major success and a historic move for us to
have our league played on a world class facility this year, most Somalis are
football addicts and they always ask us about when the league will be started,
so we are now confirming to them that the league will kick off on October 18”
Somali Football Federation President Ali Said Guled Roble said in a press
statement after his work tour to the facility on Sunday.
He said that having such stadium will also help increase
Somali people’s interest for football as everyone likes to come and see such
facility which Somalia had never had before.
"Today I and my delegation have visited Banadir stadium
and we have decidedd to start the completion whilst the construction of some
parts of the stadium will also continue, because we have so many activities to
do before the end of the year including regional football for peace and
development” President Ali Said Guled Roble said in his press statement after
the visit.
He said that for the past several months the division A
clubs have been under huge preparations for the upcoming competition which
attracts fans from all over the country and some Somali football-loving expatriates
returning from abroad to watch their country’s league at home for the first
time in more than two decades as peace has returned.
Photos: By Omar Ibrahim, SFF Media
Somali Football Federation Media department
Email:somalifootballmedia@gmail.com