the football team was created in the late 1940s by a group of football fans representing all the italian colonists of all italian somalia with the name "genio officina", as an antagonist to the ac mogadiscio (the team of the italians of only the capital mogadishu) in the first amauteur championship of somalia. the team was officially inscribed in the somalia first league championship in 1952 as "lavori publici fc/genio", winning the tournament of that year.