مشاركة قطرية في جلسة الفيفا

يشارك محمد سالم العطوي، مدير المنتخب القطري الأول لكرة القدم، في جلسة المراجعة التشغيلية التي ينظمها الاتحاد الدولي لكرة القدم (FIFA) مع عدد مختار من مديري المنتخبات من مختلف الاتحادات القارية، وذلك اليوم الخميس في مقر الفيفا بمدينة زيورخ السويسرية.
وتأتي الجلسة في إطار مراجعة الجوانب التشغيلية والتنظيمية المرتبطة ببطولة كأس العالم FIFA 2026، والاستفادة من الخبرات والدروس المستخلصة منها في تطوير آليات العمل والتخطيط للبطولات المقبلة، وفي مقدمتها كأس العالم FIFA 2030.وتهدف الجلسة، التي ينظمها قسم خدمات المنتخبات في الفيفا، إلى إتاحة المجال أمام مديري المنتخبات لتبادل الخبرات والتجارب ومناقشة أبرز الجوانب التشغيلية التي رافقت مشاركتهم في مونديال 2026، إلى جانب تقديم الملاحظات والمقترحات التي يمكن الفائدة منها في تطوير تنظيم مسابقات الفيفا المستقبلية.

Madrid: Charles Leclerc on Thursday conceded he was at fault when he clashed with Ferrari team-mate Lewis Hamilton during the opening lap at the Italian Grand Prix.

Speaking to reporters at the new Madring, ahead of this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix, the Monegasque driver said the pair had discussed the incident and settled their differences. betsport.cv

The clash saw Hamilton run off into the gravel and lose six places while Leclerc continued, but then crashed out on lap two at last Sunday's Grand Prix in Monza.

Leclerc had initially said "we went too far", a claim that Hamilton disagreed with by stating that "there was no 'we' in it".

"I think it's kind of clear that we never want to see a car of the same team in the grass," Leclerc said in the Spanish capital.

"After reviewing, we spoke with Lewis, I obviously know I went too far in Turn Two and I said it to Lewis and I think it's very clear what we should do or should avoid going forward."

Leclerc added that it was "not acceptable" to see his team-mate in the gravel, but pointed out that more was made of the incident because it occurred at the team's 'home' race.

"We are driving for Ferrari and if there's one race where you don't want that to happen it is Monza and when these things happen at our home race, then it does a huge mess outside," the 28-year-old added.

Seven-time world champion Hamilton said he also discussed the matter with Ferrari team boss Fred Vasseur and that there was no bad blood.

"That's the positive of where we've got to over the past 15 months," the 41-year-old explained. "We've got to a place where we have really great communication internally and the same with me and Charles.

"I think it's great that there was no shying away from having a discussion. We sat face to face, just him and me and we talked and we were both open and honest. We squashed it. We can move on."

Doha, Qatar: Qatar’s fencing team is heading to the 20th Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, with a clear goal: win the country’s first-ever medal in the sport at the Games. The event runs from September 19 to October 4.

Nine fencers will represent Qatar: Ali Turki Awida, Khalid Arif Hussein, Abdullah Ismail Khalifa, Abdulrahman Bourghrib, Abdulrahman Al-Jadra, Mohammed Abdulali, Yousef Abdul-Tawab, Ali Al-Khalif, and Isabelle Bettadini, the team’s only female competitor. They are part of a much larger Qatari delegation of 243 athletes — 184 men and 59 women — competing in 26 sports at the Games.

Zamel Al-Shammari, a board member of the Qatar Fencing Federation, is leading the delegation. Three coaches — Ines Boubakri, Alvaro Felipe Monteiro, and Hugues Thierry Dergal — oversee the team.

The team has trained hard for this moment.

The men held a camp at Aspire Academy from August 23 to 29, while the women trained in Italy from August 17 to 25.

Both squads will finish their preparation with one last camp in Tokyo, from September 13 to 20, just before competition begins.

The Aspire Academy camp drew fencers from six countries besides Qatar: the Netherlands, Greece, Argentina, Malaysia, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia.

In total, 66 fencers took part, including Saudi Arabia’s Khalifa Al-Amiri, who won bronze in épée at the World Championships in Hong Kong, and the Netherlands’ Tristan Tullen, an Olympic fencer who won the Doha Grand Prix in January.

Sixteen coaches ran 12 training sessions over six days, giving Qatari fencers a chance to test themselves against different styles from Europe, Asia, and the Arab world.

Khalid Suwaid, senior administrative expert at the Qatar Fencing Federation, said the camp was a major boost for the team.

Speaking to Qatar News Agency, he said the goal now is not just to compete, but to finish among Asia’s top four teams and fight for medals.

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Qatar first competed in fencing at the Asian Games when it hosted the event in 2006.

Since then, the team has taken part in every edition — Guangzhou 2010, Incheon 2014, Jakarta-Palembang 2018, and Hangzhou 2023 — without winning a medal.

That changed in October 2025. At the Asian Fencing Championships for under-23s in Kuala Lumpur, Qatar’s épée team beat the Philippines and Thailand before losing the final to Uzbekistan by a single point. The silver medal was Qatar’s first-ever Asian medal in fencing. The team behind it: Abdulrahman Al-Jadra, Yousef Abdul-Tawab, Mohammed Abdulali, and Ali Al-Khalif.

The Kuala Lumpur medal was part of a wider run of good results. At the 2023 World Combat Games in Riyadh, Qatar won four medals: gold in men’s foil team (Awida, Hussein, and Khalifa), individual bronze in foil for Khalifa, bronze in men’s épée team (Meshal Al-Qahtani, Mohammed Al-Awlan, Mohammed Abdulali, and Mohammed Al-Hazza), and bronze in women’s épée team (Haya Diab, Sara Diab, and Sheikha Jassim Ali).

At the 2025 West Asian Championships, Qatar won 12 medals in total — six gold, two silver, and four bronze.

The team also took gold in team foil at the 2025 Arab Championships in Bahrain, thanks to Abdullah Ismail and Khalid Aref, and added a gold and a silver in foil at the 2026 Gulf Games in Doha.

There is young talent coming through too.

Isabelle Bettadini reached the quarterfinals at the Asian Junior Fencing Championships in Singapore last month.

أعربت البحرين عن ترحيبها باعتماد مجلس محافظي الوكالة الدولية للطاقة الذرية القرار المتعلق بالجمهورية العربية السورية ، وما ترتب عليه من إنهاء النظر في بند تنفيذ اتفاق الضمانات في سوريا، معتبرة ذلك تطورا إيجابيا يعكس التقدم في مسار تعاون سوريا مع المنظمات الدولية والإقليمية بشفافية ومسؤولية وفقا لقواعد القانون الدولي.

وعبرت وزارة الخارجية البحرينية في بيان لها عن تقدير البحرين لجهود المجموعة العربية في مجلس محافظي الوكالة الدولية للطاقة الذرية، برئاسة المملكة العربية السعودية، وبمشاركة المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية، وجمهورية مصر العربية، والمملكة المغربية، ودورها في تقديم مشروع القرار، مشيدة باعتماده بتوافق الآراء والإجماع، بما يعكس دعم الدول الأعضاء للتطورات الإيجابية التي شهدها الملف السوري.

وجددت الوزارة موقف مملكة البحرين الثابت الداعم للجمهورية العربية السورية، ومساندتها لمؤسساتها الوطنية والدستورية، بما يحفظ وحدتها وسيادتها وسلامة أراضيها، ويلبي تطلعات شعبها الشقيق نحو الأمن والاستقرار والازدهار، واستعادة دورها الفاعل في محيطها العربي والدولي.

Hong Kong: An inaugural FIFA ASEAN Cup will take place later this month featuring 14 teams with matches played in Indonesia and Hong Kong, organisers said on Thursday.

The 11 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and three guest sides -- Hong Kong, Pakistan and Bangladesh -- will play in two divisions from September 24.

Eight teams will contest the top-tier Division 1 -- hosts Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

They will be split into two sections of four with the winners contesting the first FIFA ASEAN Cup final on October 5.

The second-tier Division 2 will be hosted by Hong Kong and also involve Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Timor-Leste, split into two three-team sections with the winners advancing to a final on October 3.

"The FIFA ASEAN Cup was launched to provide national teams with meaningful competitive opportunities," said FIFA president Gianni Infantino.

"The tournament will strengthen football ties across Southeast Asia."