Dogo who is yet to feature for a club outside the country has been one of the shining lights in the Starlets team in recent years and this comes as a breakthrough in her career after a failed move to Swedish side Djugardens IF last year.
The player will be signing a one-year deal with an option to extend for another year should she impress on her debut season. She leaves Thika Queens after helping them to the Kenya Women Premier League title last season and becomes the second player, after Esse Akida, to leave the Thika-based side in the past three months.
Hakkârigücü is a women’s football club founded in 1989 and based in Hakkâri in eastern Turkey and use blue and white stripes for their home games. With the move, Dogo is expected to miss Harambee Starlets 2022 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCON) forthcoming qualifier against South Sudan.
Mwanahalima ‘Dogo’ Adam also admitted she still regrets how the dream to play professional football with Israeli side Maccabi Holon went up in smoke after the deal collapsed at the last minute. The former Thika Queens goal poacher had sealed a six-month loan deal with the club, which takes part in the country’s Women Premier League, last December but her stay lasted only few weeks before she was released alongside other foreign players, after the club failed to obtain the International Transfer Certificate (ITC) from the respective countries.
The ITC is a certificate provided from one national association to another to facilitate the transfer of a player between countries. According to the FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players, all players should obtain an ITC where the immediately preceding registration was with a national association other than the national association in which the player is registering.
The foreign club had agreed earlier to give the striker a six-month loan deal with an opportunity to extend her stay depending on how she would have performed. That was not the first time for the striker to lose a golden opportunity. In February, 2020 she reached a deal with a Swedish top flight side Djurgardens IF DFF but it fell through after the Swedish embassy reportedly twice denied her a visa.