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| Full name | Heegan Football Club | ||
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| Founded | 1950 | ||
| Ground | Banadir Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 15,000 | ||
| League | Somalia League | ||
| 2023–24 | 6th | ||
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Heegan FC (formerly Somali Police FC until 2013) [1] is a Somali football club based in Horseed, a district of Merca.
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| Full name | Heegan Football Club | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1950 | ||
| Ground | Banadir Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 15,000 | ||
| League | Somalia League | ||
| 2023–24 | 6th | ||
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Heegan FC (formerly Somali Police FC until 2013) [1] is a Somali football club based in Horseed, a district of Merca.
The club was founded in the Port of Merca in 1950 by descendants of Italian colonists in Merca [2] during the ONU mandate.
They have won the Somalia League in its inaugural year in 1967, [3] and again in 2014/15.
The team is based in the rebuilt Banadir Stadium.
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Merca is the capital city of the Lower Shebelle province of Somalia, a historic port city in the region. It is located approximately 109 km (68 mi) to the southwest of the nation's capital Mogadishu. Merca is the traditional home territory of the Bimal clan and was the center of the Bimal revolt.
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Ali Maow Maalin was a Somali hospital cook and health worker from Merca who is the last person known to have been infected with naturally occurring Variola minor smallpox. He was diagnosed with the disease in October 1977 and made a full recovery. Although he had many contacts, none of them developed the disease, and an aggressive containment campaign was successful in preventing an outbreak. Smallpox was declared to have been eradicated globally by the World Health Organization (WHO) two years later. Maalin was subsequently involved in the successful poliomyelitis eradication campaign in Somalia, and he died of malaria while carrying out polio vaccinations after the re-emergence of the poliovirus in 2013.
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