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STORY: SOMALIA / FIFA TRAINING
TRT: 3:35
SOURCE: AU/UN IST
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/SOMALIA/NATS
DATELINE: 15 AUGUST 2013, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
1. Med shot, Somali and FIFA National Flag
2. Wide shot, trainees entering City palace hotel for opening ceremony
3. Med shot, trainees in line
4. Close up, football Jersey with logo of Adidas and FIFA
5. Wide shot, trainees being checked at the entrance of the hotel
6. Wide shot, high table with guests of honor at the opening ceremony
7. Close up, a football on table
8. Med shot, trainees listening to the guest during ceremony
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdi Qani Said Arab, Secretary General Somali Football Federation:
“First of all I would like on behalf of the Somali Football Federation to thank FIFA for accepting to start Somalia FIFA events. When you look at the parts, 1986 was the last time for FIFA to hold any events like seminar, after 1986 there were no FIFA events in Mogadishu the capital city of Somalia and that was everybody knows because of the civil war.”
10. Wide shot, journalists
11. Med shot, guests of honor at the high table
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Ulric Mathiot, FIFA Instructor:
“The place is buzzing with the enthusiasm that what you want show FIFA is that you are ready for whatever.So now you have to work through it and I hope that my presence here where will help to show not only FIFA, but the world of football that you are ready for what it takes to host any FIFA event or CAF event in thefuture."
13. Med shot, trainees in side a classroom receiving course books
14. Close up, trainee going through notebook for the training course
15. Med up, trainees go through their books during the training course
16. Med shot, trainees in class during the workshop
17. Wide shot, projection on the wall in the classroom
18. Med shot, FIFA instructor Ulric Mathiot speaking to trainees
19. Wide shot, FIFA instructor Ulric Mathiot teaching in the classroom
20. Wide shot, Banadiir Stadium with FIFA grassroots coaching course training ongoing
21. Med shot, trainees do an animated practice excises on the football pitch
22. Med shot, FIFA instructor Ulric Mathiot gives instructions to the trainees
23. Wide shot, trainees running an animated play on the pitch
24. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Yusuf Ali Noor, Coach of Elman FC:
“This is something we can be absolutely proud of because it is a chance to develop the grassroots. It is different when training an adult and when training a child. So from this course we get the special skills to train children. It is even more important to discipline their upbringing and encourage them to take up sports.”
25. Wide shot, trainees listen to FIFA instructor Ulric Mathiot
26. Med shot, trainees listening
27. Close up, trainees listen to FIFA instructor Ulric Mathiot
28. SOUNDBITE (English) Ulric Mathiot, FIFA instructor:
“We are teaching them how to organise first of all because you know the kids are all over the place, First thing is to organise and to give them responsibilities for example taking care of their equipment organise themselves, they could be also coordinating.”
29. Wide shot, trainees go through animated football training
30. Med shot, FIFA instructor Ulric Mathiot overseeing the training
31. Wide shot, trainees go through the animated practice session.
The yellow and blue FIFA flag is once again flying high in the Somali capital Mogadishu after over two decades.
The smiles on the faces of the coaches that have come from various regions of the country, say it all.
During the years of conflict, all FIFA activities and events for Somalia were held outside its boarders in neighboring countries like Djibouti, but with the progress on the security front and stability in the country, the International Football governing body FIFA has decided to hold the first ever grassroot course in Somalia.
Abdi Qani Said Arab, the Secretary General of the Somalia Football Federation had been working to organise this course for the last four months, its been a tough road but glad that FIFA agreed to hold the training within Somalia.
“First of all on behave of the Somali Football Federation I would like to thank FIFA for accepting to start Somalia FIFA events.” Abdi Qani Said, “When you look at the parts, 1986 was the last time for FIFA to hold any events like seminar, after 1986 there were no FIFA events in Mogadishu the capital city of Somalia and that was everybody knows because of the civil war."
FIFA instructor Ulric Mathiot from the Seychelles was the only instructor who agreed to come Somalia to conduct the course, but he is no stranger to Somalia. He brought a football team to Somalia in 1986 and have held course for the football association in Djibouti.
“The place is buzzing with the enthusiasm that what you want show FIFA is that you are ready for whatever,” said Ulric, “ so now you have to work through it and I hope that my presence here where will help to show not only FIFA, but the world of football that you are ready for what it takes to host any FIFA event or CAF event in the future.”
For FIFA to hold the course in Somalia, the country needed to have met three goals; security and safety for the players, have an international standard stadium and have a local sponsor - all commitments that the country’s football association has worked towards.
In August 2011 African Union troops helped the Somali National Forces flush out the extremist group al Shabaab from the capital and other their other key bases in central and Southern Somalia. The Al Qaeda linked militants had put a ban on watching and playing football and were using the stadiums as training sites and bases for their operations.
Today the gates of the country’s oldest stadium the Banadiir Stadium, built in 1956 is open for games. The Somali Football Federation, with money from FIFA was able to re-turf the pitch and are having their practical sessions of the training course there.
“This is something we can absolutely be proud of because it is a chance to develop the grassroots.” said Yusuf Ali Nur, a veteran player and coach attending the course. “It is different when training an adult and when training a child. So from this course we get the special skills to train children. It is even more important to discipline their upbringing and encourage them to take up sports.”
The five-day grassroot course is to train thirty coaches from across the country on how to work with kids of various ages though animated games and tournaments with the hope of not only having fun, but also identifying young players that will be the next generation of Somali football starts.
“We are teaching them how to organise first of all because you know the kids are all over the place, First thing is to organise and to give them responsibilities for example taking care of their equipment organise themselves, they could be also coordinating.” added Ulric.
With the world’s most popular football league the Premier League is about to kick of this weekend, millions around the world will be cheering on for their teams and this time Somalis will not be left out. This grassroot course already shows the potential that the country has to bring international football back to its borders and ultimately to be the driving force that unites its people to play fair.
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