FC Bayern Munich will face QNB Stars League side Al Ahli SC in a friendly match at Aspire Zone Foundation’s pitch 05 at 5:30pm on today. The Bundesliga giants will holds its morning training session at 10am. It marks another day of the Bayern Munich tour to Qatar, which has seen hundreds of local, regional and international fans flock to Aspire Zone every day to watch the German team’s football stars in action. The team concludes their annual winter training camp tomorrow.
Defender Joshua Kimmich missed the team’s training session due to cold. Goalkeeper Sven Ulreich has missed the last few sessions after sustaining a finger injury, but is expected to return to training soon. Striker Robert Lewandowski attended training session briefly and did a few exercises separately from the team in order to help with a kneecap injury that was sustained earlier this year. The training sessions attracted Qatari VIPs and German tennis player, Jan-Lennard Struff. The ambassador of Qatar to Germany, Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, attended the team’s training session on Thursday morning. 
Sheikh Saoud said: “We’re very happy to welcome FC Bayern Munich in Qatar for the eighth year in a row. The world-class facilities that Qatar has worked tirelessly to build, especially in Aspire Zone and Aspire Academy, has made hosting such elite training camp possible.”
“Aspire Zone has become a sporting hub for various training camps that happen each year, attracting various teams from all over the world and Paris Saint-Germain concluded its training camp a few weeks ago. In addition to Bayern Munich, the Tunisia national football team is in Aspire for another training camp. The winter weather is really special in Qatar and is one of many factors that makes coming to Qatar to train more attractive for international players.”
Meanwhile speaking about Hamad International Airport’s (HIA) official platinum sponsorship of the German team, HIA Vice-President Commercial, Abdulaziz al-Mass, said: “This new partnership with the German club stems from our vision and strategy to have partnerships with elite international sports clubs and a wide fanbase. FC Bayern Munich’s matches have a viewership of more than 500 million people, so the partnership has economic benefits for Qatar, and builds on the country’s efforts to invest in sports and attract investors to Qatar.” 
Whilst in Doha to participate at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open, German tennis player, world No 44, Jan-Lennard Struff attended the training session. 
Former Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen, Algerian player Ahmed Reda Madouni, also attended the training sessions and praised Aspire Zone Foundation’s facilities.