The Transitional Committee of the Emirates Football Association agreed during its second meeting yesterday at the Federation’s headquarters in Dubai headed by Sheikh Rashid bin Humaid Al Nuaimi, Chairman of the Committee, on the proposed date for the extraordinary general assembly to be held on January 12, 2020 to approve the amendments to the articles of association and the electoral regulations and to appeal the decisions of the election committee and approved the general budget For the Football Association for the new year 2020.
The committee reviewed the proposed amendments to the articles of association and notes of the members and agreed on the amendments in preparation for their submission to the meeting of the General Assembly for approval.
The meeting was attended by Vice-Chairman of the Committee, Abdullah Nasser Al-Junaibi, and Hamid Ahmed Al-Tayer, Hisham Al-Zarouni, Ali Hamad Al-Badawi, Ahmed Youssef Bin Darwish, Issa Mir, Khalfan Balhoul, Amal Buslakh, and Aisha Al-Tunaiji, members of the committee, and the Secretary-General of the Football Association Muhammad Abdullah Hazam Al-Dhaheri and Assistant Secretary-General for Technical Affairs Ibrahim Al-Nimer and Abdullah Al-Kanzi are rapporteurs.
The committee reviewed the topics and recommendations of the National Teams and Technical Affairs Committee, as it followed the latest preparations of our first national team within its current gathering in Dubai as part of its preparations for joint qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup and Asian Cup finals 2023, as well as the preparations of our Olympic team currently in the Thai capital Bangkok to prepare for participation In the AFC Asian Cup U-23 finals, which will kick off next Wednesday, which will in turn qualify for the "Tokyo Olympic Games 2020".
Our Sunni team programs have been approved for the coming period, as the youth team born in 2001-2002 will participate in the Arab Cup championship that will be held in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the period from February 18 to March 3 2020, and the West Asian Championship in Lebanon for the period from 14 to 25 March 2020, while our team will participate Young people born in 2003 in two friendly tournaments, the first in Hong Kong for the period from 4 to 10 February 2020 and the second in the UAE from 9 to 16 April 2020, as part of the early preparation program to participate in the Asian Cup 2022 qualifiers and the 2023 finals.
For the junior under-16 team that is preparing for the Asian Cup finals scheduled in the Kingdom of Bahrain 2020, a preparation program has been adopted that includes internal and external rallies and participation in an international friendly championship in Croatia for the period from February 25 to March 4, while the junior national under-17 team will participate Born in 2006 in an international friendly championship in Hong Kong for the period 4 to 10 February 2020 and another international championship in Italy for the period from April 26 to May 3, 202 in the early preparation for the 2022 qualifiers and the 2023 Finals.
The participation of the beach national soccer team was also approved in the Asian Games scheduled in China for the period from November 28 to December 5, 2020.
The committee approved the nomination of Dr. Mohamed Said Al-Hattawi as vice-president of the Competitions Committee, while the results of the participants ’tests in the Referees Football Tournament November 2019 were approved, as well as the results of the tests of the participants in the Futsal Football Referees’ Course in October 2019.
The committee agreed to submit the file to host the seventh conference of Sports Medicine for the Asian Football Confederation 2022, with the medical committee mandated to study all hosting matters and submit its recommendations before January 9th.
The committee also approved the names nominated for membership in the election commission and the appeal committee and presented it to the extraordinary general assembly meeting.