File picture of Lekhwiya players celebrating a goal. The defending champions will be eager to repeat their last year’s performance.
By Sports Reporter/Doha
As part of the preparations for the Qatar Stars League (QSL), the competition’s organisers are putting together three media days to capture photos of the players in their new kits and other relevant data. The event will start from September 1st and finish on the 3rd.
The league organisers have already sent invitations to all Qatar Stars League players to attend the media days on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
The players and coaches will attend wearing their teams’ official kit; they will be interviewed for both QSL TV (which can be found on YouTube), and for the QSL’s official website www.qsl.com.qa.
Some international players won’t be able to make the QSL’s media days due to representing their various national teams in Asian qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup Finals. However the QSL has also prepared auxiliary media days so that any players who missed the media days set to take place over the next few days will also have their photos and data captured.
In addition, the league organisers convened meetings with all 14 club media officers participating the QSL this season to stress the importance of the players’ attendance during the media days as well as co-operating fully with the local media.
The league organisers have also insured that there will also be a number of promotional events leading up to the start of the new Qatar Stars League season which is set to kick off on September 11.
There will be some great activities in the new Gulf Mall starting next Thursday until the 10th of September. Every day from 4pm until 10pm. The activities include promotional videos via TV monitors and interviews with the stars in the mall itself.
The Qatar Stars League is also set to hold its annual launch ceremony which will take place on September 7 at the iconic Sheraton Hotel from 10:30am. Clubs Presidents, officials and all 14 QSL member clubs’ technical staff have been invited to the event.
Masoud Shojaei: I look forward to creating success at Al Gharafa
Al Gharafa introduced their new Iranian signing Masoud Shojaei with a press conference on Monday evening. Shojaei replaces Australian midfielder Mark Bresciano.
The press conference was convened in the presence of Team Manager Saoud Fath, and the club’s Media Officer Taha al-Muhazaa as well as the assembled local media.
Saoud Fath pointed out that Shojaei is the fourth and final foreign player to be signed this summer following the acquisitions of Tunisian Al Chikhani, the Congolese striker Dioko and the Brazilian defender Anderson.
The new Cheetahs star said, “I am so happy to join Al Gharafa after representing Al Shahania during the previous season. I have encountered Al Gharafa and witnessed some of their matches. It is a big team with a huge reputation in the Qatar Stars League. I hope that my career will be successful like the Iranian players who used to play here before me such as Ferhad Majidi and Mohamed Reza.”
Speaking about why he chose the yellow and blues, he said: “I had several offers within Qatar but my decision was to go with Al Gharafa because of their reputation, as well as the players they possess.”
Qatar Sports Club defeats second division side Al Markhiya
Qatar Sports Club defeated Al Markhiya 3-0 in a preseason friendly played last Sunday as part of their build up to the new season which kicks off September 11.
Players Ibrahim Jamal, Hamdi Harboui and Ismail Belmeallem scored Qatar Sports Club three goals.
Last season the Kings had a great season finishing fourth, only time will tell if they can replicate that level of form this season.
Mesaimeer defeats Al Muharraq of Bahrain
Mesaimeer defeated the Bahraini club Al Muharraq 3-1 in a preseason friendly match played on Sunday evening at the Thani Bin Jassim, the home ground of Al Gharafa. This will be the first time that Mesaimeer will appear in the Qatar Stars League.
Players Abdel Aziz Sherif, Saoud Al Ali and the Iranian Mohamed Nouri scored the three goals, whilst Karim Butajin scored Al Muharraq’s only goal.
Mesaimeer’s Head Coach Rodion Gačanin was keen to field several players during the game in order to enhance the players’ readiness for the start of the new QSL campaign.
At the start of the match both club representatives exchanged gifts.
