Tomorrow morning, the 15th Super Globe Club World Championship will be hosted by the Kingdom for the third time in a row at the Ministry of Sports in Dammam between 18 and 23 October with 12 clubs. , by holding round robin matches, semi-finals of the tournament and matches to determine the places.
The semi-final matches will start at 6pm, where German team Magdeburg will play Egyptian team Al-Ahly in the first leg and Polish team Kielce will play their Spanish rivals Barcelona at 20:30 in the second. meeting to determine the two sides of the final match to compete for the title.
In the 5th to 8th ranking matches, the Saudi Gulf team will play Portugal’s Benfica at 13:30 and Brazil’s Taobati will play Tunisia’s Esperance at 15:30, and then the winners of the two matches will play a match, to determine the fifth and sixth places, and the losers will meet for the seventh and eighth places.
In the 9th to 12th ranking matches, the host team will play the Australian team Sydney at 09:30, and the Kuwaiti-Kuwaiti team will play the Mexican team Minestros at 23:30, and the winners at the last the day will meet to determine ninth and tenth places, and the losers will play a match to determine eleventh and twelfth places.
For his part, the president of the International Game Federation, Dr. Hassan Mustafa, confirmed in a press statement that this 15th edition, which is held in Dammam, is historically the best in terms of mass attendance compared to previous editions, since the number of visitors to the preliminary round was only 16,000 spectators for the first three days of the tournament.
It is noteworthy that 16 Saudi referees will co-administer the tournament in all matches of the tournament as table judges, and these are: Ali Al-Sakufi, Muhammad Al-Saqr, Hussein Al-Kaibi, Muhammad Malaika, Muhammad Al-Howildi, Ali Al-Sadiq, Muhammad al-Khudimi, Tayseer al-Khudimi, Zakaria Abu Obeid, Nader al-Suwayket and Turki al-Turki, Jassim al-Hamoud, Faisal al-Dariwish, Mashari al-Khuwail, Hussein al-Mukhtar and Majed al-Malki.
The Statistical Committee includes five young people from Saudi Arabia: Hussein al-Hadrawi, Muhammad al-Yousef, Hussein Ajaj, Khaled al-Baridi and Mustafa Shokan, as well as a team from Croatia, consisting of Ivan Velitić, Bojan Letek, Marin Kasika and Tomislav Derek. , Positive and negative technical points such as goals scored, industry, errors and penalties that players receive, in addition to a special program that counts the number of minutes each player participates in a match.
During the tournament, a special corner inside the complexes was opened in a number of shopping complexes in the Eastern Province in order to introduce visitors and buyers to the game of handball with a special event for the game, and these corners witnessed a great turn out.
The events accompanying the tournament, which are held in the fan village in the outer courtyard of the Ministry of Sports Hall in Dammam, attracted a large number of fans to come to the matches. Giant, allowing fans to watch the matches live in the open air.
For its part, the organizing committee of the championship last night held a dinner for the participating delegations in the presence of Dr. Hassan Mustafa, President of the International Federation, Prof. Fadel bin Ali Al Nimr, President of Arab and Saudi Handball. federations and heads of delegations. During the ceremony, shields and souvenirs were exchanged.
