It was an honor for Somalia's champions, Banadir Sports Club to hold a farewell dinner ceremony for Puntland state football team, the winners of the 2016 Somali inter-state football tournament and finalists Jubbaland football team.

Abokar Mohamed Sheik, chairman of Banadir Sports Club, invited both teams to a highly organized farewell dinner party held at Maka Al Mukarama Hotel in the city centre of the capital Mogadishu on Friday evening. 

"I am very pleased that my club is the sole National league member which organized such a beautiful and high level dinner for the two states who won first and 2^nd places of the 2016 Inter-state football competition” Banadir Sports Club chairman, Abokar Mohamed Sheik said in his address at the dinner ceremony.

"We organized this beautiful gathering as a moral boost and encouragement for the two teams who played in the final. This is also to create a long-term relationship between Banadir Sports Club and these two and other states in the country” he said.

"We are now planning to make trips to a number of semiautonomous states in order to have friendly matches with them” Mr. Abokar Mohamed Sheik explained. Banadir Sports Club are the 2015-2016 Somali champions and they retained their record after winning the elite National league unbeaten once again.

The farewell party dinner was attended by Somali Football Federation senior vice president, Ali Abdi Mohamed, Somali National Olympic committee coordinator for regional development Ibrahim Hussein Ali, Somali NOC executive committee member and 1960s Ocean Stars playmaker, Haji Mohamed Ahmed Olow.

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