{"id":276755,"date":"2011-02-22T11:42:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T11:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/02\/22\/sympathy-for-dead-somali-footballer\/"},"modified":"2011-02-22T11:42:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T11:42:49","slug":"sympathy-for-dead-somali-footballer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/22\/sympathy-for-dead-somali-footballer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sympathy for dead Somali footballer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>\n                        <!-- S BO --><br \/>\n<!-- S IIMA --><\/p>\n<div readability=\"10\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/b068ebbd9_somalia_2.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"260\" alt=\"Somali coach Abdi Farah Ali\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Somalia, seen here preparing for December&#8217;s Cecafa Cup in Tanzania, are one of Africa&#8217;s lowest-ranked nations<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<br clear=\"all\" \/><!-- E IIMA --><!-- S SF --><\/p>\n<p><b>Fifa President Sepp Blatter has offered sympathy to Somalia after one of the country&#8217;s best young players was killed by a suicide bomber in Mogadishu.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Under-20 international Abdi Salaan Mohamed Ali was among 10 people killed when a car bomb exploded on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Two other players, Mahmoud Amin Mohamed and Siid Ali Mohamed Xiis, were among 35 people injured. <\/p>\n<p>Blatter wrote to Somali federation chief Said Mahmoud Nur &#8220;with a sad heart, having learned of the tragedy&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><!-- E SF --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On behalf of Fifa&#8230; I wish to extend our condolences to you, the Somalian football community and, most importantly, all family, friends and loved ones of the victims,&#8221; the Fifa chief added. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please let them know that today, the football community stands by their side.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Ali died after being struck by the blast following a training session near the police academy which was targeted by the bomber, while Mohamed and Xiis were wounded as they walked home. <\/p>\n<p>A militant Islamic group claimed responsibility for the attack. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On behalf of the entire family of Somali football I am sending my heartfelt condolence to the families, relatives and friends of the slain football player Abdi Salaan Mohamed Ali,&#8221; said Nur in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was one of our best players and was recently added to the national U-20 squad.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The statement added that a book of condolence has been opened at the Somali Football Federation&#8217;s headquarters in Mogadishu where thousands have already conveyed their sadness. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are committed to continuing our duty in the war-torn country until we meet death,&#8221; the president said in his statement on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Blatter and Nur are likely to meet this week, with both scheduled to attend the Confederation of African Football&#8217;s general assembly in Sudan on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Somalia are one of Africa&#8217;s weakest footballing nations, ranked 176th in the world by Fifa, and without an Africa Cup of Nations appearance to their name. <\/p>\n<p><!-- E BO --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/b068ebbd9_somalia_2-150x83.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/sport2\/hi\/football\/africa\/9404534.stm\" title=\"Sympathy for dead Somali footballer\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sympathy for dead Somali footballer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Somalia, seen here preparing for December&#8217;s Cecafa Cup in Tanzania, are one of Africa&#8217;s lowest-ranked nations Fifa President Sepp Blatter has offered sympathy to Somalia after one of the country&#8217;s best young players was killed by a suicide bomber in Mogadishu. Under-20 international Abdi Salaan Mohamed Ali was among 10 people killed when a car bomb exploded on Monday. Two other players, Mahmoud Amin Mohamed and Siid Ali Mohamed Xiis, were among 35 people injured. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sympathy for dead Somali footballer - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/22\/sympathy-for-dead-somali-footballer\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Sympathy for dead Somali footballer - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Somalia, seen here preparing for December&#039;s Cecafa Cup in Tanzania, are one of Africa&#039;s lowest-ranked nations Fifa President Sepp Blatter has offered sympathy to Somalia after one of the country&#039;s best young players was killed by a suicide bomber in Mogadishu. 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