Gaza - Ahmed Al-Masharawi and Al-Quds Sports Correspondent

The Palestinian Football Association in the Gaza Strip is holding a special meeting this week with the participation of its most prominent committees, primarily competitions and player affairs, to resolve its decision to organize the second official tournament for this current football season, 2022-2023, which is the Gaza Strip Cup, after the completion of the first national championship in the Premier League. , first, second, and third, where he will announce his final position on the official announcement of the future of the Sector Cup.

Proposals tended to cancel the cup tournament, for several reasons, most notably the riots that took place in the stadiums and were repeated in league tournaments, and the state of tension that the sports system is going through in the recent period, and the federation’s address to the moment to see its position on participating in the cup tournament, indicated the existence of a small number of The clubs of the second and third degrees do not exceed the number of fingers on one hand. They would like to participate out of 30 clubs. They have the right to participate or apologize for it. The Competitions Committee gives the options for the second and third degrees to participate, while the participation of the clubs of the excellent and first degrees will be compulsory.

Ramadan tournament canceled

The federation committees indicated that there is a tendency to cancel the cup championship for the current season 2023, similar to the previous two seasons. Matters did not stop at that, but there is a tendency by the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports to cancel the five-a-side football championship for the sector clubs, and replace it with corporate teams.

official institutions and associations. The committees indicated that postponing the launch of the upcoming Sector Cup until after the blessed month of Ramadan will find great opposition from the clubs, as this will increase the financial burden on them, as the clubs will need more than 40 days of training to prepare for the tournament, which depends on the knockout of one match, in addition to that the clubs Suffering from a suffocating financial crisis in the last three seasons.

Rafah youth camp

The Rafah Youth Club, the champion of the Premier League for the penultimate edition, and the champion of the Sector Cup for the last edition of 2020, is looking to hold an external training camp in the Arab Republic of Egypt in preparation for the next season, with the support of businessmen close to the Blue Club. The camp will also include a recreational period for the team in the capital, Cairo, to relieve One of the pressures that faced the team this season, after its neighbor and arch-rivals Khadamat Rafah crowned the title.

Palestinian national youth team

The Palestinian national table tennis team for juniors under 15 years old arrived in the Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah to participate in the West Asian Federation Championship, which will be held from 13 to 19 March. The Secretary-General of the Federation, Imad Al-Jaal, has completed the necessary procedures to participate in the competition. The delegation is headed by Radwan Al-Sharif, Vice President of the Federation From the West Bank, who will participate in the meeting of the West Asian Federation, and the players Kamel Dofesh, Ahmed Al-Daya, Asaad Erhim, Youssef Dofesh, Abdullah Mushtaha, Abdel-Rahman Ward, and Hassan Abu Shaban.

In turn, Muhammad Salah al-Dalu, President of the Federation, thanked the Olympic Committee, represented by its president, Lieutenant General Jibril Rajoub, and Major General Abdul Majeed Hajjah, Secretary-General, for their support of the Table Federation, and for providing what is required for the success of Palestine’s participation in the Iraq Championship.

First class lottery

The Table Tennis Federation, at its headquarters in the Hall of the Prisoner and the Martyr Hassan Salameh, held the draw for the first-class championship for the clubs of the Gaza Strip, in the presence of Adeeb Abu Ghazal, a member of the Federation, head of the Competitions Committee, the tournament director, and a number of representatives of the clubs participating in the tournament. Adeeb Abu Ghazal, Chairman of the Federation’s Competitions Committee and Director of the Tournament, inaugurated the lottery ceremony by reading the items of the regulations and the tournament system, which will be divided into two groups. Al-Radwan Club, Al-Tuffah Club, Al-Qadisiyah Club, Palestine, and Al-Salah Association. The Federation’s National Teams Committee will conduct a competition between the teams of each league group from one role, and the first and second for each group will advance to the next round, while the next stage, which will conduct a one-round league between the four rising teams, will include the champion and his runner-up, and they will rise to the Premier Division while he will be relegated. The last two groups for the second degree. The championship competitions will start on Wednesday at 3:30 pm at the Federation tables in Hassan Salameh Hall, provided that the teams will be present at 3 pm for preparation and warm-up.

Technical performance analysis course

On the other hand, the coaches Muhammad Muhanna and Mazen Al-Katani from the Gaza Strip are participating in the performance and technical analysis course, which is launched by the International Olympic Institute in the Arab Republic of Egypt, in which the football expert Amr Abdo, a performance analyst in the clubs of the Ministry of Interior, the Police Union, Tanta and Porto, lectures with the participation of many Trainers in Egypt, with a duration of 40 training hours. The course has many themes, most notably statistical and numerical analysis, technical analysis, line analysis, heat map analysis, and writing a full analytical report. Muhanna and Al-Katnani are the first coaches to participate in the tournament of its kind, as they have previously appeared in the analytical studios of satellite channels to analyze matches in the Premier League. He works as an assistant coach for Deir Al-Balah Union Club, and Al-Katnani worked as a coach for Al-Tuffah Club.

Proposals to adjust league matches

The Football Association is examining its efforts to control the matches, especially in the recent matches, because the clubs do not concede the results to each other and miss the results, as this has not been officially proven, and doubts remain made by some clubs in a move not to manipulate the results as happens in many tournaments, and among the proposals is to be The Super Cup consists of six clubs, so that the league champion and runner-up are in the semi-finals, in addition to the presence of two teams, the winner of the third-place match and the sixth-place match, and the winner of the fourth-place match and the fifth-place match. Matches, especially since missing matches is a great inconvenience to clubs, and they are numerous, but it is difficult to prove them, as they require evidence and evidence.