Annual Sports Festival of Eritrean community members in Kaiserslautern conducted

Asmara, 10 September 2014 – Reports indicated that the Annual Sports Festival of the Eritrean community members in Kaiserslautern, Germany, was conducted from Sept. 5 to 6 with patriotic zeal and higher Sports enthusiasm.

The event witnessed the participation of Eritrean veteran sportspersons from North America, Sweden and Switzerland, as well as other cities of Germany.   The participants of the festival exchanged views as regards enhancing role in the domain of sports and stated that it would make due contribution pertaining to popularizing the nation’s cultural values.

The objective of the 8-year Festival is to bequeath the history and experience of Eritrean sports to the new generation on the basis of organizing veteran sportspersons and nurturing competent youths.

Mr. Yohannes Debas, Consul in the Eritrean Embassy in Germany, and Mr. Tekle Kidane, veteran sportsman, handed awards to the participants of the Festival.