Mr. Ahmed El Shenawi was received at Mogadishu’s Aden Abdulle
International airport by Somali Football Federation senior vice president Ali
Abdi Mohamed SFF head of logistics Abukar Islow Hassan and sports medicine
doctor Abdi Ibrahim Ahmed.
El Shenawi will be leading the FIFA MA refereeing course for Somalia
which is slated in Mogadishu for 20-24 April 2014. This is the first time for
El Shenawi to come to Somalia, but he had so far lead international courses for
Somalia organized in the neighbouring country of Djibouti.
"I am very happy to arrive in Somalia and conduct such international
level course for the country” FIFA refereeing development officer Ahmed El
Shenawi said upon arrival at the airport on Friday.
Meanwhile, FIFA fitness instructor Boubakar Hanashi who was due in
Mogadishu on Friday hasn’t yet arrived and Somali Football Federation officials
said they were not aware of what went wrong with him.
"The two FIFA officials were coming from different countries, so still we
do not know what delayed Mr. Hanashi, it can be flight delays, but we are currently
establishing contacts with FIFA to exactly find out what happened” Somali
Football Federation Secretary General Abdi Qani Said Arab noted.
Mr Arab said that Somali fitness instructor and former international
referee Abdi Abdulle Ahmed (Baasaale) who was due to assist the FIFA instructors
will be doing the fitness lessons instead of Boubakar Hanashi, but said they
were hopeful that Mr Hanashi will arrive if he didn’t encounter unexpected
problems.
Somali Football Federation Media Department
Email:somalifootballmedia@gmail.com