In a groundbreaking second, Somali girls’s nationwide soccer staff gears up for its first worldwide event, marking a big milestone in Somalia’s footballing historical past.
The Ocean Queens U-17 squad will take part within the Arab U-17 tourney to be held in Jordan from 26 March 2026, whereas just some years again, girls’s soccer was thought of taboo in Somalia on account of cultural views.
The president of Somali Soccer Federation, Ali Abdi Mohamed‘s dedication and perseverance have been instrumental in altering improper perceptions. “We’ve got labored tirelessly to get our girls’s nationwide staff on monitor. It was an extended and issue journey to steer our neighborhood that ladies’s soccer shouldn’t be a criminal offense within the Islamic stance and isn’t disgrace so long as girls costume accordingly” president Ali Abdi Mohamed, stated.
“We did the whole lot in our capability to develop girls’s soccer, we launched grassroots applications and supplied the mandatory trainings and gear to our feminine footballers. This can be a proud second for me and for your complete Somali soccer household” president Ali Abdi Mohamed, famous.
“I’m dedicated to creating positive that our staff will get the assets they should succeed” the president added, throughout a go to to the staff’s coaching floor on Sunday.
As soon as undreamed of, girls’s soccer is now a actuality in Somalia.
Nobody had ever thought that Somali girls would someday take pleasure in enjoying soccer within the horn of African nation, the place even males had been as soon as banned from enjoying the gorgeous sport by militants who gave soccer completely different names resembling [Un-Islamic or Satanic act], however one thing undreamed of now turned attainable in Somalia
Ladies enjoying soccer was even thought of the largest disgrace someone faces and consequently mother and father wouldn’t enable their daughters to kick the ball, however one man’s dream has modified the whole lot.
“A couple of years again, I sat down and considered the creation of ladies’s soccer. I knew there have been many challenges, however I made a decision to kick begin this system with consciousness campaigns, as a result of there was nothing improper with it, however cultural limitations wanted to be eliminated and that was our place to begin” SFF president stated including that one thing as soon as inconceivable, has lastly change into attainable in Somalia.
Now dozens of ladies’s soccer golf equipment are energetic within the nation and the primary official nationwide soccer league with a larger participation is below manner. Girls and ladies are having fun with soccer and Somali Soccer Federation plans to ship the primary girls’s nationwide staff to Arab U-17 girls’s competitors to be hosted in Jordan in March this 12 months.
