Mozambican football championship kicks off in central Tete province

A total of 16 football teams with representatives from Mozambique's south, central, and north parts, start on Saturday their campaign to the first position of the Mozambican football championship Mocambola.

The Minister of Youth and Sports, Alberto Nkutumula said on Saturday that he expects significant competition and fair play during the championship.

"Our major expectation is that there will be fair play, our football has been characterized by many complains issued by the athletes themselves related to refereeing and there are incidents of violence things that do not go unnoticed to us," said the minister.

Mozambican Football League board said that it will do its best to keep sport violence away from the competition and all other sorts of negative actions that could undermine the competition.

"We are committed to work for a quality football within the standards of football truth," said Ananias Coana, chairman of the Mozambican Football League.

The opening match of the season is between Uniao Desportiva de Songo from Tete province against Desportivo de Nacala from northern Nampula province, the most populated of Mozambique.

Mozambican football championship 2016 begins with new board of the federation which has a new chairman, Alberto Simango Junior, a new coach of the national squad, former Portuguese football player Abel Xavier. And the league made one of its first decisions that increase the number of competitors from 14 to 16, which was hailed by the minister. Endit