Tanzania, March 18 -- Dar es Salaam. Tanzania's national football team (Taifa Stars) have departed in the early hours of today for Azerbaijan ahead of the world football governing body (FIFA)'s inaugural international friendlies.

The team's squad included nine players of Tanzania's envoys in the CAF Champions League, Young Africans (Yanga) and Simba players.

The players from Yanga are Aboutwalib Mshery, Bakari Mwamnyeto, Ibrahim "Baca" Hamad, Mudathir Yahya and Clement Mzize while those from Simba are Aishi Manula, Mohammed "Tshabalala" Hussein, Kennedy Juma and Kibu Dennis.

However, there were plans for Yanga and Simba officials to ask the Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) to drop their players from the national team so they could ha...