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In the area I live which is full of people from xamar(nothing to do with qaabiil,im talking about everyone who was born in xamar) they all seem to play soccer like 24 hours a day. You could say this is a foreigner thing but the guys I know play every single day. Even the older men like 40-60 years old play everyday and instead of wearing old people clothes they wear soccer attire . So is this common with people from other areas of somalia or somaliweyn or is this just a reer xamar thing

In the area I live which is full of people from xamar(nothing to do with qaabiil,im talking about everyone who was born in xamar) they all seem to play soccer like 24 hours a day. You could say this is a foreigner thing but the guys I know play every single day. Even the older men like 40-60 years old play everyday and instead of wearing old people clothes they wear soccer attire . So is this common with people from other areas of somalia or somaliweyn or is this just a reer xamar thing

Mcali, generally speaking, in Somalia, much like the rest of the world, soccer is by far the most popular of all sports , and is as such practiced in various degree in every region. Now, it is true regions south of Hiiraan, Mogadisicio, for example, soccer is much more revered and practiced than the rest of the country, and farther south you travel, (with the exceptions of couple of regions like Gedo, and Middle Juba) you will find this, indeed, to be the case. So, yes, reer Xamars are much more predisposed to play this beautiful game of soccer then the folks in Galciao, Buro, Dhuusomareeb, or any point in between, north of Hiiraan. Of course, once again, I would like to make clear to all, before I am accused of bad mouthing some particular regions,I am not implying here that North provinces don't love the game. It is just that, for some reason or another, they are not as soccer crazy as the Southern compatriots.

Now why don't you just call it banooni?

Yeah reer xamar love their football along with coffee and spaghetti

its a waqooye thing.

The British suck at soccer, Italians are much better at it lol

Brits invented soccer italians followed lol

1st thing, it's a reer xamar thing as far as what I've seen
2nd thing, Italians also suck
3rdly, what the hell is soccer... ITS CALLED FOOTBALL GOD DAMMIT

Its a Somali thing, ufiirso when guys play together you find wide range of people, wax eey ila fahman football aaba ka jiro.

look at these fools arguing my clan plays football your clan doesn't.

look at these fools arguing my clan plays football your clan doesn't.

qaabiyaalad ayaa kaa soo auraysa

1st thing, it's a reer xamar thing as far as what I've seen
2nd thing, Italians also suck
3rdly, what the hell is soccer... ITS CALLED FOOTBALL GOD DAMMIT

true lol

I go with my friend sometimes and i find many somalis from diffrent regions but the majority is reer xamar. It might be just because my area might have alot of somalis from that area. I just feel like the y take it too far like my friends house not room, but whole house is full of liverpool stuff.

Everywhere I've been in the north they've been playing it, ground cidlah ama xeebta ha noqate, it's the only sport played in Somalia.

Now why don't you just call it banooni?

Banooni is the worse name ever do you seriously call it that

Brits invented soccer italians followed lol

Actualy its the chinese that invented the game.

The Brits changed it and made it into what it is today.