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Qatar Football Association (QFA), Al Dawri & Al Kass Sport Channels and Qatar Shell celebrated National Sport Day with a World Cup-style football tournament at Aspire Zone, which was attended by more than 4,000 people. |
The tournament is part of Koora Time, a five-year sustainable initiative designed to improve the health and wellbeing of Qatar’s youth through football.
The Koora Time World Cup was opened by HE the Minister of Energy and Industry Dr Mohamed bin Saleh al-Sada, who came to the main pitch to officially kick-off the tournament.
Forty-eight teams, each representing a nation, battled it out across eight pitches in the daylong football tournament. Khalfan Ibrahim and Bilal Mohamed from Qatar’s national football team attended the event as honorary coach and referee, spurring on the teams as well as running football clinics in a dedicated Fan Zone.
Bosnia and Herzegovina were crowned champions of the competition.
Koora Time supports the Social and Human Development pillar of Qatar National Vision 2030 and the National Development Strategy by engaging Qatar’s youth at every stage of their lives with football-themed programmes that are tailored to three age groups: seven to 12 years, 13-17 years and 18-24 years.
Shortly after the final whistle, QFA vice president Saoud al-Mohannadi, QFA marketing and communications director Khalid al-Kuwari and Qatar Shell general manager (corporate affairs) and deputy country chairman Rob Sherwin presented the Koora Time World Cup winners’ trophy to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Wael Sawan, managing director and chairman of Qatar Shell Companies, said: “Last year, the QFA and Qatar Shell launched the Koora Time initiative on National Sport Day in dramatic style, by breaking a Guinness World Record for the longest ever five-a-side football match.
The highly-anticipated match ran continuously for 11 hours, 58 minutes and 12 seconds, and was played by a total of 523 participants from all over Qatar. This year, to celebrate National Sport Day and to honour the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil, the partners created our own World Cup football tournament at Aspire Zone.”
This year, the Koora Time World Cup featured an mPowering Action booth, which showcased an energy-harnessing football that generates light after 30 minutes of play. In December 2012, Shell became the founding corporate partner of mPowering Action, the world’s first movement and innovative mobile social good platform to unite goodwill organisations, corporate partners, the entertainment industry and the United Nations community.
Khalid Hamooshi and Abdulsalam Saleh both impressed with bold moves and tricks, and took home a grand prize each, the energy-harnessing football.
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