Yesterday Simba announced the peak day of its famous annual festival 'Simba Day' which this season is scheduled to take place on August 3 at the Benjamin Mkapa stadium as they plan to break the records of previous concerts
The club will use the festival to surprise their fans with the identity of their new players who will form the team for the next season
Speaking in Dar es Salaam yesterday, the Club's Information and Communication Manager, Ahmed Ally, said the summit will be followed by a whole week of members and fans doing social work in various places in the country before everyone gathers at Mkapa Stadium on the summit day. , although he did not name the team that will play with that squad
The annual festival brings together the members and fans of Simba who, along with other musical and dance entertainment from various artists, will also have matches for youth and women's teams
Also use the festival to announce the new team for various competitions and later end the festival with an international friendly game between the Simba team and the Alikwa team
"We would like to inform all Simba fans that the official date of our big Simba Day event will be August 3 this year, Benjamin Mkapa Stadium right here in Dar es Salaam"
"We have decided to announce early so that people coming from different countries start booking tickets early, you know Simba Day always brings people from many places in the world, it should be remembered that last season the tickets sold out two days before its peak, it has never happened, now this time we want the record to be broken," said Ahmed
He said the fans of the team will get various 'surprises' in the registration of the team this season while also planning to have entertainment of its kind that will make their fans happy
The concert will be the 25th for the big club since they designed and held it for the first time in 2009 under the chairman of the club at the time, Hassan Dalali, where it has now become their tradition to hold the concert
A few years after starting the festival, other clubs also started holding their own concerts. In the first festival in 2009, Simba played a friendly match with the SC Villa club of Uganda at the Uhuru Stadium and won 1-0 with a goal scored by Hilary Echessa, a Kenyan midfielder who was registered that season, the team being under the Zambian coach, Patrick Phiri
