Futsal league technical meeting

Manama : The Technical Committee for Khalid bin Hamad Futsal League for Youth Centres is to hold the second technical meeting at the headquarters of the Bahrain Football Association in Riffa and attended by representatives of the participating teams.

The league will be held under the patronage of HH Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa, First Deputy President of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, Honourary President of the Bahrain Disabled Sports Federation, from July 24 to August 23. Under the slogan #meeting_of_generations, the league is part of the sports and humanitarian initiatives, organised by the Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs in cooperation with the Media Office of Shaikh Khalid.

The meeting will be dedicated to presenting a detailed explanation of the regulations and arbitral matters by Jassim Mahmoud, Director of the referee’s department and he will address several aspects of the regulations or the laws of the game and its recent amendments.

The meeting will also be devoted to receiving the statements of the players from the participating teams in the league, where each team is entitled to register 12 players, including a goalkeeper.

It is noteworthy that the Committee adopted the character of “Nabil” as the name of the character for the league, which was painted by the Bahraini artist Turki Rashid. The character is based on the best player in the category of people with disabilities in the fourth edition of Khalid Bin Hamad Futsal League for Youth Centers, People with Disabilities 2016, as Nabil Al Dossari was chosen as the best player.

The league will be held this year at the Khalifa Sports City Hall. This year’s edition will witness the participation of 36 youth centers out of 36 official centers representing the various cities and villages of the Kingdom of Bahrain. The large and wide participation is continuation of last years success which had 23 youth centers participating. In addition, 8 people with disabilities teams will participate and 6 girls teams.