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Djibouti youngsters romp through to Arab youth tourney semis.
Djibouti’s U-17 football squad booked their place in the semi-finals of the Arab youth football tournament, which is currently under way in Doha, the capital of Qatar.
The Youngsters shared points with Qatar, after their hotly-contested match ended in 1-1 draw on Sunday.
Earlier, the boys humiliated their Mauritanian rivals by 4-3 in the opening match of the tournament which was played on 20th of October,2014.
The Djiboutian youngsters, who are now classified as one of the strongest teams in the competition, have made a good approach and so far stories about them have been circulated in the news headlines around the region.
For the past two years, the youthful team has been under daily training sessions since they were short listed from school tournament some 20 months ago.
In his post election address on November 10 2012, the Djibouti Football Federation president Souleiman Hassan Waberi announced football development plans in particularly to build football from the bottom in a bid to hunt young talented players from inter-school and regional levels tourneys.
In December 2013, the youthful boys had trained in Doha for two weeks to help them catch up with the weather in Qatar, as the Gulf state was preparing for hosting the youth tournament.
“As I pledged two years ago, my policy toward football development in Djibouti targets school children and boys as young as 12 or 13, because educating children under football is part of building football knowledge from the bottom” the FDF president Souleiman Hassan Waberi told CECAFA Media.
The president pledged bonus for the boys if they win the tourney adding that finishing 2nd is also a good result, but he was very hopeful that the youngsters may win the trophy.
Meanwhile, in the capital Djibouti, hundreds of football fans have been seen in the streets to celebrate the historic approach made by their U-17 boys.
The fans were chanting positive slogans, while waving the country’s national flag, before they finally gathered outside the FDF headquarters in the city centre.
A FIFA forward program workshop for football leaders and finance managers
from CECCA Member Associations has come to an end in Djibouti.
The workshop gathered FA presidents, Secretary Generals and finance
managers from football associations in the CECAFA region and as well as
CECFA secretary General Nicholas Musonye was present.
The workshop was aimed at briefing Member Associations on the most
important principles in the FIFA Forward program and how to manage the
funds they receive from FIFA in the most appropriate way to avoid from
financial misconducts which can result in FIFA cutting their funds.
FIFA’s financial assistance to its member associations to accelerate
football development in the world will increase to 1,250,000 USD per year.
That is 5 million USD in every four years.
As shown in the financial assistance plan every FIFA-member association
gets access to 500,000 USD per year to cover running costs and other
financial needs and as well as 750,000 USD for football projects including
construction of soccer facilities and other complexes as planned by member
FAs and approved by FIFA.
This was the first such event organized by FIFA for CECAFA region and
hosted in Djibouti. President of Djiboutian Football Federation, Souleiman
Hassan Waberi said that it was an honor for his country and his federation
that FIFA forward program workshop for the region took place in his
country.
Djiboutian minister for youth and sport, Mr. Hassan Mohamed Kamil, who
addressed at the workshop thanked FIFA for its continued support to
football in his country.
“I would like to emphasize the testimony of our indefinite gratitude to
FIFA, not only because of organizing this workshop in our country, but
also for its constant support which helped develop football in the
country. I thank the member Associations in the CECAFA region for their
attendance of this workshop” said the minister in his address at the FIFA
In an unprecedented move, Djibouti’s women’s national U 17 football squad is now in the final of Pan Arab women’s youth tourney which is under way in the Qatari capital of Doha.
The young girls kicked Palestine out of the competition after defeating them by 1-0 in the semifinal match on Saturday evening.
Both sides made a very competitive exhibition as they were all committed to making their way into the final and as a result the first half of the match ended in 0-0.
However, Djibouti’s side realized their golden goal when Fahima Mahmoud Ahmed (number 7) scored the winning goal for her nation in the 70th minute of the match, leaving Palestine in a shocking moment.
Djibouti will face Lebanon in the final match on Monday 23nd of February. Lebanon also confirmed their position in the final when they defeated Algeria by 1-0 on Saturday.
This is Djibouti’s first major approach in its football history and it comes after two years of marathon football development programs invented by President Souleiman Hassan Waberi who since resuming the leadership on 10th of November 2012 implemented more than a dozen development programs including the revival of women’s football in the country and as well as the creation of beach soccer in Djibouti.
DJIBOUTI’S National U-17 squad has snatched the 3rd place of the Arab youth football tourney which came to an end in Doha, on Sunday evening, after beating Qatar 3-2 in penalties, as the two nations fought for the 3rd place.
The Hotly-contested match ended in 3-3 equality in the 90-minute period it takes to play a football match, but the Djiboutian goalkeeper, Gamil Haider who survived two penalty shootouts lead his team to secure their 3rd place.
But Djiboutian striker, Moussa Hassan, was recognized as the top scorer of the two week-long tournament with 6 more goals.
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