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TFF, MPs cry for 60,000-seater stadium
2007-08-09 09:12:36
By Victor Gasper
The Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) is still struggling to make sure that the 2008 African Cup of Nations Group Seven return leg qualifying match between Taifa Stars and Mozambique be played in the 60,000-seater ultra-modern stadium in Dar es Salaam.
TFF First Vice President Crescentus Magori said yesterday that the body`s president, Leodegar Tenga, who was attending the parliament session in Dodoma, had informed him that the government was working on the issue so that the match could be played in the stadium.
``We have received a call from Dodoma telling us that Members of Parliament are pushing the government so that the match could be played at the new stadium,`` Magori said.
Magori said many people were proposing that the match be played at the stadium.
``Even MPs want the match be played in newly built stadium. We still believe that the government can revise its stand so that the match is played there,`` Magori claimed.
The government last Monday ordered TFF to look for a stadium where Taifa Stars will play Mozambique.
The statement, signed by the Minister for Information, Culture and Sports, Muhammed Seif Khatib, said that the match would not be played in the new stadium as earlier planned.
He said the contractors, Beijing Construction Engineering Group Company Limited, were yet to say when the Chinese firm would hand over the stadium to the government.
Magori said if the government would stick into its stand, then the game will be staged at the CCM Kirumba Stadium in Mwanza.
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