More than 4000 people attend QFA, Al Kass and Qatar Shell Koora Time World Cup Football Tournament

February 12, 2014 9:15 am

The 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. The highly anticipated event was opened by His Excellency Dr. Mohammed bin Saleh Al-Sada, Minister of Energy and Industry, who came on to the main pitch to officially kick off the tournament.

Forty-eight teams, each representing a different nation, battled it out across eight pitches in the day long football tournament. Khalfan Ibrahim and Bilal Mohammed from Qatar’s National Football Team attended as honorary coaches and referees, spurring on the teams as well as running football clinics in a dedicated Fancontinuously 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.” Wael Sawan of Qatar Shell added, “As the Koora Time initiative grows from strength to strength we are thrilled to welcome Al Dawri & Al Kass Sport Channels to the Koora Time team as we collectively strive to improve the health and wellbeing of Qatar’s youth through football.”

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