The Development of Sport in the Oman and the World
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth held, on Sunday, a seminar on the development of sport in all its forms in the capital, Muscat.
The symposium lasted for three consecutive days, and reviews the most important sports in the Sultanate of Oman and the world. Every day a specific sport is designated, and it is talked about in terms of its development in the Sultanate, especially and around the world.
On Sunday, the symposium dealt with the development of football around the world, how it moved to the Sultanate of Oman, and the most famous players in the world and the Sultanate.
Omani football has developed a lot with the beginning of the current century, which witnessed the first team's presence in the AFC Asian Cup finals for the first time in 2004 in China, which were repeated three times also in 2007, 2015 and 2019.
The Omani team reached the summit of glory twice, the first was in 2009 and won the Gulf Cup, and the second when it added to its coffers the second title at the level of the same competition in 2017, which are the most prominent achievements. Omani football at the first team level.
At the global level, Ali Al Habsi achieved international fame through his brilliance in Norway, England and Saudi Arabia, and among the most famous players in the world, he is famous in this field, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Mohamed Salah.
The symposium continued on Monday, as it reviewed the development of volleyball in the Sultanate and the countries of the world, as volleyball reached the Sultanate in the twentieth century through the European and Indian communities when merchant ships docked in Muscat.
The symposium hosted one of the most famous Omani volleyball players (Noah Al-Jaloubi), who represented the Sultanate in regional and international forums, where he participated in each of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, China and Portugal.
The symposium concluded on its third day with a review of the most important other sports in the Sultanate and countries of the world, such as cricket, tennis, handball, swimming, baseball, golf and many other popular sports.
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