Dubai Sports Council revealed yesterday the participation of the world football star, Real Madrid coach, French football legend Zinedine Zidane, in addition to the former international star and the current coach, the Dutch Clarence Seedorf in the events and sessions «Dubai Sports Conference and Exhibition of Artificial Intelligence», the first event of its kind Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Sports Council, the Dubai Sports Council will kick off at 9:00 am tomorrow, and will continue until Tuesday, and will be held in Rashid Hall, Dubai World Trade Center. Zinedine Zidane, three-time champion of the Champions League as Real Madrid coach and winner of several world titles, will be among the speakers on the first day of the conference.

Zinedine Zidane has visited Dubai several times with his family, where he participated in several events organized by the Dubai Sports Council, including the Dubai International Sports Conference and the Dubai Award «Globe Soccer».

Zidane is one of only eight players in the world to have won the World Cup, the Champions League and the Golden Ball. Zidane has a career full of achievements, awards and trophies, where he has won numerous individual awards as a player, including the World Player of the Year award. 1998, 2000, 2003, won the Golden Boot at the 2006 World Cup and the Player of the Year award.

He also won the Golden Ball Award in 1998, the best French player in 1998 and 2002, the best player in the French league 1996, the best player in the Italian league in 2001, and the best foreign player in the Spanish league in 2002, and was selected in the list of the top 125 Life, which includes the world's greatest living players collected by Pele, was also voted as the best player in Europe on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee.

As coach, he has won the best coach award in the world, having led Real Madrid to an unprecedented three consecutive Champions League titles, La Liga, Spanish Super Cup, European Super Cup twice and Club World Cup twice.

Clarence Seedorf, former coach and former professional player, will also speak at the Dubai Conference and Exhibition during a second day session titled “Academies of Sports and Technology”. Seedorf was named one of the best midfielders in 2004 on Pele's FIFA 100 list of the best players in history. Alive, the only one to win the Champions League with three different clubs are Ajax Amsterdam 1995, Real Madrid 1998 and AC Milan in 2007 and 2003.

Seedorf also played for Sampdoria and Inter Milan.He began his coaching career in January 2014 with AC Milan.He then took charge of Shenzhen, his third experience with La Coruna.He then took charge of Cameroon Lions in August 2018.

The conference and exhibition will be sponsored by several national and international organizations such as Emirates Airline, Dubai Sports Channel, Tech Talk App, Newsmart Health, Dubai Sports City, Audi, Dubai Duty Free, Al Nabooda Automobiles and Dubai Mall.

Scientists and world heroes showcase the latest global technologies

The event will host an elite group of scientists, world champions and international companies in various fields to showcase the latest AI technologies, with the participation of Saki Tasodis, Managing Director of MENA-SAP, and Alex Champion, a researcher in technical performance sciences who talks about the importance of sensing in AI algorithms and Alesso Rossi (Dean of the Faculty of Technology, University of Pisa, Italy), who talks about artificial intelligence software in the ball.

Other notable participants include Donald Nelson, president of the Dallas Mavericks, Drakhan Acker, president of technology and board member of Galatasaray, Christian Gutman, a leading expert in artificial intelligence, Mark Re-Bert, founder of Boston Dynamics, and robotics expert, and Stephen Audi, world tennis champion. On wheelchairs, Yanni Glychkova, the Ukrainian champion in swimming, has 4 gold medals. Johannes Holz Mueller, Head of Technology and Innovation at FIFA, is also a participant.

The conference and exhibition will be held for the first time in the region and will be held at Rashid Hall, Dubai World Trade Center.

Former Dutch star and coach Seedorf will take part in a second day session entitled "Sports academies and technology".