How can we promote the soccer sport in Eritrea in 2025?
Eritrean players need to earn enough money so they can make a living and don’t defect – right now they defect because they cannot live from their wage, unlike Eritrean cyclists who have wealthy donors from Europe and Asia.
Eritrea needs a professional soccer league inside Eritrea with regular season and playoffs, fund the players from ticket sales and donors – donors from inside Eritrea like the mining companies, and the big Eritrean diaspora, and other potential investors. Eritrean diaspora should be allowed to play for the national team of Eritrea, coach it, and invest in the sport.
Only then players will stay and Eritrea can finally compete.
But as long as Isaias Afwerki stays in power, it will likely never happen.