Somalia National league kick off date unveiled.

Somali Football Federation [SFF] has todayannounced the fixtures for the
country’s National League.

According to the fixtures released today, the 10-team league will kick off
on Monday 28th of December, when Dekedda FC will take on the police side
Heegan FC who are the current champions.

Somali Football Federation [SFF] Media officer Shafi’i Mohyaddin Abokar,
said in a statement that his federation decided that the competition is
played Monday to Friday in order to give the country’s football fans the
chance to watch other football  leagues around the world.

“As we know more than 95% of our people are football-loving people, so we
came to decision to play our league matches Monday to Friday. We did this
because of our lovely people so that they can have the time to watch
football games around the world which are mostly played in the weekends”
the SFF media officer, Shafi’i Mohyaddin Abokar, said in his press
release.

He said that this season the National league has some special interests
saying it is expected to be more competitive than past competitions.

“All the 10 clubs in the National League have been making continuous
preparations for the past several months. The number of foreign players in
the country has also increased with many teams transferred foreign
professionals” he said.

The media officer added that the increase of foreign players in the
country was making the national league more competitive and more
interesting as well.

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Collins Okinyo

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