Sadiq Abdulqader Mohamoud wearing his former club jersey talks to a journalist at Benadir Stadium, Mogadishu
Hiiraan Online
By Shafi’i Mohyaddin
Friday, April 11, 2014
Somali Football Federation has strongly condemned the arrest the Ocean stars member and called on Kenyan authorities to urgently free him.
“In general we are very sorry for what is happening to the Somali people in Kenya and in particularly the arrest of Sadiq Abdulqader Mahmoud touches us deeply” Somali football Federation Secretary General Abdi Qani Said Arab said in a press statement here on Friday.
Somali National Team: Sadiq Abdulkader Mohamoud 3rd on the right back row at Khartum Stadium on November 2012
“Sadiq is well known in
The statement noted that the player informed police he was an international footballer and plays in the Kenyan top league but they would not listen to him and instead detained him in the football stadium.
“It is unfortunate that an international footballer who carries a nation’s flag on his shoulders was detained and is still illegally being held—Somali FA would not tolerate such violation and we will take the matter to the world of football” Said secretary General Abdi Qani Said Arab whose statement was sent to FIFA, CAF and CECAFA and as well as circulated to the international media.
Sadiq has been member of the Somali National football squad for the past four years and represented the country in many international competitions. He now plays for the AFC Leopards in
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