Special/ SME
* Major General M. Ismail Al-Gergawi, President of the Arab and Emirati Basketball Federations, and one of the most prominent founders of the ancient Al-Ahly Club (Shabab Al-Ahly)
Currently, a luxurious dinner party is held in Al Khawaneej in honor of the club’s family, on the occasion of the first football team winning the ADNOC Professional League shield for the eighth time in the journey of this great sports entity full of achievements and championships, in the presence of Ibrahim Abdulmalik, Vice President of the Football Company and a large number of well-known personalities in the sports arena and fans The Knights Castle, along with some of the old founding members, Abdullah Al-Ansari, a member of the Al-Ahly Club Board of Directors at the beginning of the founding, with Ismail Al-Qarqawi, Abdul-Rahim Merdas and Adel Al-Zarouni, in addition to former football stars Dr. Hamdoun, Dr. Muhammad Al-Banna, Muhammad Matar Ghorab and Hamza Abbas, who contributed to the first achievement in the mid-seventies and a number of media professionals Local and Gulf 0
Al-Qergawi praised the honorable results achieved by the team this season and its success in winning the title before the end of the league round, praising the championships achieved by the club at the level of other Sunni groups and the monopoly of Al-Ahly youth for all stage championships at the level of football, as well as the matter with regard to other group games, foremost of which is the first basketball team. The league champion and the rookie for the second round in the Asian Super Qualifiers. In turn, Ibrahim Abdul-Malik thanked Al-Gergawi for this kind initiative, which expresses the extent of the association of the club’s leaders and sons with this great sports castle in light of the support of the supreme leadership and the keenness of the club’s sons to achieve achievements and championships. The audience took advantage of this occasion to capture Commemorative photos with league shields and championship tart pieces
On the sidelines of the celebration, colleague Nasser Mohammed, head of the sports department at Harida Al-Ayyam Bahrain, presented the biography of the Bahraini international referee, Jassim Mandi, to a number of sports personalities on behalf of Jassim Mandi, as he is one of the beautiful names in Gulf football in general and Bahraini in particular. He has unforgettable contributions and imprints. On sports in our region, especially in the field of arbitration, and we in the Emirates were pleased with the role he played at the beginning of the establishment of the Football Association and the beginning of its launch of the modern organized game. In the seventies, and one of the most famous matches that international referee Jassem managed was Al-Nasr’s meeting with Brazilian Santos on February 13, 1973. Since that time, we have been closely associated with Bou Abdel-Rahman, and he has become an important part in the Emirati football march. Recently, we received his beautiful documentation book, which he distributed to a number of Among the friends and loved ones who were associated with him during the period in which he lived in the Emirates, he has all our thanks and appreciation for the role he played that no one can deny.