Hussein Al-Musallam, President of the International Swimming Federation, confirmed that the Gulf Youth Games are the best way to ensure the development of young players and qualify them for world championships, indicating that he hopes that the championship will be annual in various Gulf countries, which ensures the continued work and development of our young players and training staff and preparing the infrastructure. Infrastructure always, pointing out that football is the only game that has benefited from the specialized Gulf courses.
Hussein Al-Musallam, while attending the second day of the swimming competitions, told Emirates Al-Youm: “I believe that this idea should be applied 20 years ago, and that it should be in this form in all games and not just one game. Our Gulf sport will not develop except with such tournaments.” For young and young players, and to be prepared for continental and international championships through this work.”
He continued: “This tournament should be annual and replace the individual Gulf championships, which have proven their failure over the course of 20 years, due to the lack of Olympic committees, which reduces interest and support for individual championships. In addition, this is the first experience in the Emirates, and it will be The second experience is better and the third is much better. We must not return to the old system that has proven to fail.”
Regarding the adoption of the Gulf Games tournaments in international federations, the President of the International Federation said: “I believe that this step is currently very far for these tournaments to qualify for world championships. It is possible to talk about this after four or five years with the continuation of the tournaments, but now I hear that there is a desire In returning to the old system in tournaments, this certainly means going back, but if work on these tournaments continues and is regular, there will certainly be support and vision in the future.”
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