World Cup press!

Written by / Muhammad Al Joker
UAE newspapers were associated with the FIFA World Cup, in the tournament that took place in England, and won it in 1966. At that time, the Dubai News magazine was published, which is a weekly periodical issued by the Dubai Municipality, and it devoted a quarter of a page to football, and there are no other publications. Sports are what we have known since the beginnings and publish brief news about the World Cup in that era, and near the Dubai Municipality building, there was the British Cultural Office which was an apartment that sometimes displayed some match clips on a large screen, and some fans and lovers of the game went to watch Those pictures and television clips, and that display screen was not known and spread like the spread of screens now, where we find dozens of large screens shown to viewers of the World Cup in Doha. Television did not appear locally, except in 1969, with the appearance of the Abu Dhabi and Dubai channels, and in the same year, Al-Ittihad newspaper was published, and it was It publishes some news, and in the World Cup in Mexico in the year 70, the federation began publishing results and news about the Mexican championship, and after four years, the World Cup matches began in Germany, to increase interest in the ball, and during this period, some other local newspapers came out In order to keep pace with the journalistic development in the country, but in the year 78, which took place in Argentina, the situation changed, and a delegation was formed to attend the meeting of the International Federation General Assembly there, in which we were represented by members of the Football Association Sultan Saqr Al-Suwaidi, Abdul Rahman Al-Hassawi and Hajj Mustafa Kamel Mahmoud, may God have mercy on him, and he accompanied and witnessed the Nature, colleague Tawfiq Al-Tahrawi from Al-Ittihad newspaper, who covered the event
The interest of Emirati newspapers in the championship continued, and increased with the 1982 World Cup in Spain, and here, a major shift occurred in terms of interest, when the martyr Sheikh Fahd Al-Ahmad, may God have mercy on him, invited most of the old fellow Arab journalists in appreciation of the late for journalism, as he appreciated and loved journalism, as he was the first to establish The Kuwaiti newspaper, Al-Jamahir, also has articles, and many of his companions agreed to accompany the Kuwaiti delegation to the World Cup, as the first Gulf national team to reach the World Cup finals, because this stage was the stage of the real launch of the sports media in the Gulf region, and it began specifically in the capital, Abu Dhabi, during the Sixth Gulf Cup. Which took place in Zayed Sports City, and from there the term sports media began in the region. The Emirates organized several seminars on sports media, its importance and its impact until our Gulf media reached today in terms of development and prosperity .. God is behind the intent