The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)
Hassan Abdullah
30 April 2008
Zanzibar — A contingent of 22 players of the Zanzibar under 20 youth team are expected to board a Cairo bound flight for a month-long training tour.
According to Zanzibar Football Association assistant secretary general Masoud Attai Masoud, the team will be accompanied by coach Badr El Din Hadad and his assistant Masoud Kocha.
Attai named members of the contingent with their teams in bracket as Abdughan Gulam Abdallah (Malindi), Haji Abdi Hassan, Hassan Rashid Nasid (Small Simba), Is-hak Othuman Omar (JKU) Mohammed Aboud Shaali, Amour Suleimani Kombo (Malindi) and Mohammed Abdullah Khamis (Malandege).
Others are Said Khamis Abdullah (Duma), Mzee Ramadhan Juma, Mohammed Juma Azam (Malindi), Omar Juma Ali, Nassor Ali Omar (Sharp Boys), Abdullah Seif Ali (Malindi), Saleh Juma Machano (Small Simba), Hamid Ali Rajab (Mafunzo), Salum Said Salum (JKU), Ali Hamza Omar (Mlandege), Nahoda Bakar Haji, Suleiman Kassim Suleiman (Police), Idrisa Abdulrahim Shaban (KMKM), Haji Ramadhan Mwambe (Mafunzo) and Abdi Nassor Mohammed.
The training tour follows an agreement reached between the Zanzibar and Egyptian governments with the objective of promoting soccer in the Isles.
The Egyptian government has also availed Zanzibar with physicians to train Zanzibar sports medics.
This is the scond time in two years for the Zanzibar youth side to make such a training tour of Egypt.
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