Djiboutian Football Federation, has donated complete soccer equipment to
10 women’s football teams to help them prepare for the 2016-2017 women’s
national football league in the country.
Djiboutian football federation president, Souleiman Hassan Waberi, who
talked to the media, said that developing women’s football was one of his
federation’s top priorities.
“Men in Djibouti have been enjoying football for a long time, while women
didn’t get such opportunity, but I am very proud that for the past four
years our women started to enjoy football and we are committed to
broadening women’s football activities across the country” the president
told at a press conference on Thursday.
The president said that women’s competitions in the country will increase
by next year in a bid to create more entertaining activities for young
girls, teenagers and women in their late 20s and early 30s.
“For the past 2 years we have been organizing the elite women’s national
league and a tournament for school girls. Football events for women must
increase and as shown in our activity plans we want to add at least two
other female competitions by next year and we will make sure that to
happen” said president Souleiman Hassan Waberi.
The distribution of the equipment to women’s football teams in Djibouti
comes nearly a week after 200 young girls in the country’s far regions
benefitted from FIFA’s first grassroots program for young age girls in the
horn of African nation.
