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Tanzania: TFF Pays Flight Fare for Seven Yanga Players
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The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)
24 March 2008
Posted to the web 24 March 2008
Majuto Omary
The Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) at the weekend parted with $5,040 to fly home seven Yanga players from Tripoli, Libya.
TFF secretary general has said the players are to join Taifa Stars squad ahead of Wednesday's friendly international match against Mozambique to be held at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam.
The players were stuck in Libya after playing a Confederation Cup match against Al Akhdar on Friday evening. The match ended in 1-1 draw. The return leg will be played in a fortnight in Dar es Salaam.
According to earlier flight reservations, Yanga officials the players were to miss the Wednesday's match.
With the new arrangement, Yanga players are expected to arrive in Dar es Salaam this afternoon aboard Qatar Airways flight to join their colleagues for training sessions in the city.
The seven Yanga players expected to arrive this afternoon are Amir Maftah, Fred Mbuna, Nadir Haroub, Athumani Idd, Abdi Kassim, Jerry Tegete and Mrisho Ngasa.
Simba players selected to join Stars are expected home tomorrow from Abba, Nigeria. They are Emmanuel Gabriel, Kelvin Yondani, Ulimboka Mwakingwe, Henry Joseph.
Stars players regrouped last week to tune up for Wednesday's friendly, but the team was short of Simba and Yanga players who had travelled to Abba and Tripoli for continental championship matches against Enyimba and Al Akhdar played at the weekend, respectively.
The friendly match will be the first international match for Taifa Stars this year. The last time the teams met was during the return leg of the African Nations Cup qualifier at the new National Stadium in Dar es Salaam on September 8.
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Stars were humbled 1-0 to bow out of the qualifiers whose finals were held in Ghana last February.
TFF would pay travel costs for all Mozambican players and officials to facilitate the friendly.
Stars need to improve its FIFA rankings to double digit figures as well as gauging their skills ahead of the African and World Cup qualifiers set for 2010 in Angola and South Africa. Stars are grouped together with Cameroon, Mauritius and Cape Verde.
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