Coach Sabri Lamouchi insists El Jaish are well prepared for the AFC Champions League quarter-final first leg against the United Arab Emirates’ Al Nasr at Abdullah Bin Khalifa Stadium today.

Qatar defeated Qatar Stars League club Al Gharafa 3-1 in a friendly match yesterday.

Injured Brazilian forward Hulk sat out again as his Shanghai SIPG side drew 0-0 at home to Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors in the Asian Champions League quarter-final first leg yesterday.

Pep Guardiola insisted yesterday that he will continue working with Joe Hart at Manchester City, even as Barcelona goalkeeper Claudio Bravo flew in to replace the unwanted England international.

As Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City advance upon the Champions League group phase, previously maligned winger Raheem Sterling appears to have been reborn.

Qatar U-17 national team players take part in a training session in Mexico ahead of the start of their international season.

As the curtains came down on the 2016 Rio Olympics, the doors of Bayt Qatar, Qatar Olympic Committee’s hospitality house at the Games, also closed after welcoming more than 16,000 visitors through its doors.

Overdrive Racing’s season of FIA World Cup for Cross-Country rallying continues when it enters five Toyota Hiluxes in this weekend’s Columna Medica Baja Poland, round seven of the nine-event series, in Szczecin in northwestern Poland.

After completing a grueling 24h of Zolder, Qatar Motor & Motorcycle Federation (QMMF)-backed driver Amro al-Hamad and his Bas Koeten Racing team were denied the results they had hoped.

As the Olympic hoardings are taken down in Rio de Janeiro and the Carnival atmosphere subsides, there is relief that cash-strapped Brazil avoided making a mess of the Games but also a nagging suspicion it did not make the most of them either.

Great Britain’s triumphant Olympic team returned home from the Rio Games in a gold-nosed plane yesterday, as officials trumpeted their success as the “best sporting achievement” in the country’s history.

A ban on Russian athletes competing in the Rio Paralympics was upheld yesterday, triggering anger in Moscow after the country lost an appeal against their exclusion over a vast, state-run doping programme.