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SFF COMMUNICATION OFFICER DELIVERS A LECTURE AT CAF MEDIA SEMINAR IN CAMEROON
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omali Football Federation director of communication, Shafi’i Mohyaddin Abokar, delivered a 40-minute lecture at the CAF capacity building seminar for FAs media officers held in Cameroon from 18-20 December 2016. In his lecture he spoke about the growth of sports media sector in Somalia and a number of key other issues relating to the role the media can play in the promotion of football in the whole of Africa. “First I would like to thank CAF for giving me this high profile opportunity to deliver this lecture to the media officers attending
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in the seminar. This is a golden moment for me to exercise my experience and the knowledge I gained from a previous CAF seminar and I will share them with you (Media officers)” Somali Football Federation director of communication, Shafi’i Mohyaddin Abokar, told the friendly participants. Before going down to it, Mr. Abokar first spoke about the growth of sports journalism in Somalia and how the sports media sector in the country has been progressing in the past several years during which a number of media houses including TVs and radio stations which only
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broadcast sports news, comments and interviews were established in Somalia. He praised the spots media in Somalia for playing a big role in the promotion of the game in the country adding that most of foreign players in Somalia came through the media after contacting sports journalists who put them in touch with football clubs in Somalia where they finally secured agreements which led to their arrival in the country. In his lecture, the Somali Football Federation director of communication, Shafi’i Mohyaddin
