“He wants to be involved with the Paris Saint-Germain project and we would love to have him involved in the project, for sure.” Club Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nasser Al Khelaifi said in an interview with France 24 in 2013, when probed on David Beckham’s retirement after…
During the mid-1700s, as the Al Saud clan operated tirelessly in establishing the first Saudi state and working rigorously on expanding their presence felt across the region, little were they aware of a similar yet powerful tribe making noise approximately 500kms to the East. Descendants of the Banu…
Photo Credit: Al Sadd FC When Barcelona legend Xavi Hernandez was unveiled as an Al-Sadd player a few months ago, he was stepping into the unknown. All his life, the midfield genius had played for Barcelona. Catalan-born and bred, Xavi will have felt a tinge of awkwardness pulling…
The final 15 footballers were finally selected for the Qatar Airways & Aspire Academy – Football Dreams Africa project. The project which was announced earlier in the year, was to bring together the continent’s best talents for an opportunity to prove their potential in front of bunch of…
Match Report: Qatar 0 – 1 Iran A delightful strike from youngster Sardar Azmoun was enough for West Asian heavyweights Iran to beat Qatar and book a place in the quarterfinals of the 2015 Asian Cup. They will now face off with UAE, who qualified earlier with a…
Match Report: United Arab Emirates 4 Qatar 1 This fixture was always going to be a battle of the midfield maestro’s. From the beginning, all eyes were on the technical abilities of Omar Abdul Rahman (UAE) and Khalfan Ibrahim (Qatar). And they did not disappoint. Qatar came into…
Qatar has come under a lot of criticism in Western media for it’s ‘poaching’ attitude towards young Africans aspiring to be professional footballers. But if you ask 20-year-old Diawandou Diagne Niang if Qatar’s initiative via the recognised Aspire Academy involves deceit, he would advocate otherwise. In 2008, aged…
Following up on our part 1 of the winners and losers series of the recent Gulf Cup, in which we discussed the top 5 losers of the tournament, now it’s time to examine the top 5 winners of the 22nd Gulf Cup. Winners: Qatar National Team Following their…