Emerging soccer legends in Hulhudhoo worry over poor infrastructure.

In the late 1980s, Hulhudhoo was renowned throughout the nation as Brazil of Maldives. During then as many as three teams from Hulhudhoo played in the national stadium and team Cononta still hold the record in the second and third division FAM. Then we saw a drastic downward trend in soccer during 1990s making loopholes in the foundation laid by the heroes of Cononta, Verona and Lynon. However as Hulhudhoo Sports Club started a festival in the name of HSC Festival in 2001, young soccer talents began to emerge. Today we are very proud to see our teens seeking talent from the soccer player Mr. Abdulla Haaris.

Haaris has been very successful in shaping the motives of the teens who otherwise most of the time keeps hanging around the island disgracefully. There are around twenty-five teens attending his camp everyday at Hulhudhoo Football Ground. “I am very happy to see Haaris leading these children to right track” delighted a woman residing near football ground. She praised ex addicts participating in the game and helping Haaris to form younger generation of Hulhudhoo footballers.

Unavailability of proper football ground is one of the major problems facing any soccer player in Hulhudhoo today. The present ground is never maintained during the year, leaving grasses to grow above two to three feet every year, until HSC hires a lawn mower and cut the grasses. Another main problem faced by modern football players today is lack of lighting facility in the ground to play their game in the night. Either teens find it difficult to play in day light for the fear of getting tan or they just like to play in the night.

Indeed the need for a better football ground with proper lighting facility is necessary for Hulhudhoo today. “Except Hulhudhoo and Meedhoo, rest of the islands in Addu has high quality football pitches with adequate lighting facility, why not we? Is it because they are “Adduans” and we are “Seenu” Atoll people?” complained a youth. Hithadhoo alone has three high quality pitches, so do Feydhoo and Maradhoo.

Certainly, we hope youth concerns, relating to these sorts of socially vital issues, will shortly begin to reach the ears of the respective authorities as, first time in history, a constituency for Hulhumeedhoo has been declared. View Photos

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