Majdi Al-Saidi-Tunisia

Before supervising the training in a small stadium in the youth and sports center in the city of Tadhamon (west of Tunis), the coach of cross-ball sport Mohamed Hilal meets his players to explain the rules of this modern sport in the country, and simplify its laws and methods of practice in theory. Practical exercises in the skills of correction and scrolling and scoring points.

In front of the attention of the President of the Tunisian Football Association Marouane Chaib and the President of the Sports and Recreation Club in the Tadamon neighborhood, Samir Nasri, about 20 players receive daily training in the game, which did not develop in Tunisia more than a few weeks, but this did not prevent its supervisors from laying the first foundations of the association. The national sent a club in the cross ball for further dissemination and attracting young people to practice.

Tunisian football, despite its recent emergence, seeks to impose its presence in a sports field almost dominated by football, and spread among the largest number of clubs specialized in heritage games, and expand its base of popularity, in order to prepare Tunisia to participate in Arab and international competitions.

President of Al Tadamon Association for Sport and Entertainment Samir Nasri (Al Jazeera)

Arabic participation
The visit of the President of the Iraqi Federation and the Arab Federation of Trans-Abdul Ghahab Ghazi to Tunisia recently marked the start of the game in Tunisia officially.

The director of the Tunisian Federation of Sports for All and President of the Association of Trans-Marwan Chaib told Al Jazeera Net that the spread of the game in a number of Arab countries and its development in recent years has stimulated Tunisia to embrace and spread more among young people and work to radiate and make it one of the most popular recreational games among sports The Sports Federation for All.

"The passing ball is an ancient historical game. Its origins are Arab and it appeared seven thousand years ago in Babylon before it was developed by the Iraqis and then spread to the Arab world. This is where the idea of ​​sending the passing ball was made in Tunisia," Chaib said. Ball in the country. "

"Five years ago, the Federation of Sports for All started implementing an action plan to revive heritage and Arab sports. Through the ball, we aspire to further expand the popularity of this game and encourage various clubs to set up branches to organize a local championship before 2020, as well as work on radiation. Between Maghreb countries.

Trainer of Al-Tadamon Association for Sports and Recreation for the ball Mohammed Hilal (Al Jazeera)

Meeting
The president of the Tunisian League earlier met with officials of all sports federations from Algeria, Morocco and Libya, and it was unanimously agreed to recommend him as president of the Tunis-based Maghreb Football Federation.

Mohamed Helal, who is also coach of the Solidarity Club and the Tunisian national team, believes that the cross ball seems to be a unique sports specialty because it combines the laws of two popular sports, namely handball and basketball, and it is characterized by skill, speed and intelligence, which motivates young people to play.

Mohammed Hilal, who received training two years ago in training the ball in transit, in his talk to Al Jazeera Net that the rush of a number of young people to join the training of solidarity club is an indication that this game will impose its presence in the sports department in Tunisia in the coming years.

The fifth edition of the Arab Volleyball Championship in Erbil, Iraq, in February 2020 will be the first real challenge for Tunisia since Tunisia officially joined the Arab Football Federation.

Iraqi Sports
President of the Solidarity Association for Sports and Recreation Samir Nasri - the first team to launch the ball in Tunisia - said that the goal of his club is to encourage young people to play this game and raise the number of metaphors and radiation Arab and international, and the team currently includes 20 players.

The goal is calculated in the sport of passing ball when shooting the ball inside one of the rings installed above the vertical goal (Al Jazeera)

The ball is a very old sports and practiced by the Babylonians and the Pharaohs in a rudimentary manner, and then developed in Iraq and was established in 2005 an Iraqi Union and then an Arab Union, and then included Egypt, Iraq, Qatar, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Yemen before the game spread more in the Arab countries and the European continent.

The game combines the rules of basketball and handball, and is held on a stadium 28 meters long and 16 meters wide, and there are two rings at the top of the vertical columns, each diameter of 65 centimeters, and the players are working on the ball within the opponent's goal ring, the number of players for each team is 5 players A goalkeeper, at a time of two rounds, is 25 minutes each.

The pitch is divided into four sections with goals calculated according to the distance of the ball (such as basketball), if the ball enters from a throw from the closest section to the goal is counted one point, while two points are calculated if thrown from the second section, and three points if thrown from the section Third, four points if you throw from the fourth section.