Brilliant start for Dekedda as they beat Heegan in Somalia Premier league

Tuesday December 29, 2015

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It has been a good starting point for Dekedda FC after when they defeated the Somali police side [Heegan] 1-0 in the inaugural match of the Somali National league on Monday 28th of December.

This was the 3rd defeat for Heegan in less than two weeks, but this time they are under a new manager Sheik Saleh Farah who took over the team over the weekend, when their former coach Ahmed Abdirahman Omar stepped aside due to two successive failures.

The police side were reduced to 10 men when Mohamed Ahmed Mahmoud was sent out in the 45th minute of the match, but they fought hard until close to the end of the match when Abdulkader Mohiyadin Hassan AKA Yariis scored the winning goal for his team in the 90th minute only few seconds before the end of the match whistle was blown.

However, with this late goal Abdulkader Mohiyadin Hassan AKA Yariis, was inaugurated the scorer of the first goal in this season’s Somali National league.

Two of Dekedda’s players Abbaa Amin Mohamed No 14 and Abdiaziz Mohamed Ali No 11 were awarded with yellow cards in the 34th and 71st minutes of the match.

Apart from those at the stadium, hundreds of thousands of Somalis in and outside the country were enjoying the match which was broadcast live on the privately-owned Universal TV whose owner decided to join hands with Somali FA to promote football in the country.

Somali Football Federation Technical representative in UK Abdirashid Islow whose job is to recruit talented Somali footballers across Europe for the national team, was one of the Somalis who were watching Monday’s match while staying abroad.

Islow said he was happy with the new progress made in Somalia adding that there were some tangible changes he could see.

“In comparison with how our football was years before and the when we look back to the hard circumstances Somalia experienced, I can see that there is some progress.

I am really very hopeful that Somali football will approach high level in the years to come” Islow said during a telephone conversation with Somali FA Media from London.

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