Director of Development Department inaugurates training course

Sunday, November 26th 2017 06:55 AM

Football Development

DOHA: Fahad Al Thani, Director of the Development Department of the

Qatar Football Federation (QFA), opened the AFC Training Course for

the trainers at the Mesaimeer Sports Club, details showed on Saturday.

The training course will last until the second of December, QFA said.

The opening ceremony was attended by Ahmed Omar, AFC technical expert,

and Fahad Fakhro, the supervisor of the presentation of the

theoretical and practical courses. Assistant lecturer Ibrahim Mahmoud

El Shafei was also present.

The course included 26 students including Qatari stars Yusuf Ahmed,

Talal Al Balushi, Ali Arhama Al Marri, Saud Sabah Al Shammari,

Abdulaziz Karim, Fawaz Aman and Mohsen Al Yazidi.

Speaking about the importance of the course, Fahad Thani said: "This

course has a lot of importance and a great deal of value to those

attending the course. The trainers stand to benefit a lot from this

course. This course will help future trainers to be professionally

associated with club or countries across the Asian continent."

Fahad Thani concluded his speech by expressing his thanks and

appreciation to the AFC for the supervision and called on students to

interact continuously with the lecturers in theory and in practice to

pass this course

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