The Handball Association has ended its contract with the coach of the first team for men, Spanish Francesco Azanza, and set next September a date to complete the remaining tournaments of this season, including the Super Youth Cup, the last round of the General League for juniors, and the second round of the Women's League.
This came in the first videoconference held by the Federation's Board of Directors yesterday, and attended by the President of the Game Federation, Mohamed Abdel Karim Julfar, and the members of the Federation.
The Board of Directors discussed in its video meeting 10 axes before adopting its decisions, which started by discussing the file of the national teams, and reviewing the contracts of coaches under the current circumstances the world is witnessing, due to the cessation of sports activity due to the precautionary measures taken in light of the outbreak of the Corona virus, so that the first item yields Deciding to end the contract of the first team coach, Spanish Azanza, on April 30th, and appointing his assistant, national coach Khaled Al Balushi, to lead the national team, before the national coach, Qasim Ashour, is assigned to take over the tasks of training young and junior teams, who will enter the first phase Gathered when circumstances permit under preparation for the Asian Championship teams qualifying for the World Cup finals.
The decisions also included the cancellation of the Emirates Cup championships for youth, youth, youth, and junior categories, which were scheduled for the 2019-2020 season, before the Federation’s board of directors set a date for completing the remaining championships of the current season, starting from the date of the seventh of September to be the date to complete the last round of the Cup Super Youth, followed on the 11th of the same month with the establishment of the last round of the Junior League, before on the 26th of September the second round of the Women's League will be completed.
The hand union also identified in its meeting the names of the committee supervising the revision of the union’s statute, which is composed of the president of the union, Mohamed Abdel Karim Julfar, the secretary, Nabil Ashour, and the member of the union Nasser Al Hammadi. The General Sports Authority for final approval and submitting it to the Federation's Board of Directors for final approval, followed by sending the final version to the National Olympic Committee.
At the end of its meeting, the federation discussed the conditions for registration and registration of the player residing in the country for the new season 2020-2021, in consideration of the interest of the game and in response to the proposals of the member clubs that were discussed in the middle of last month in the ordinary general assembly meeting, so that the player residing in the country is not registered as a professional player in any Another union outside the country within a period of 12 months, and also obtain a letter of approval from the union of his country until it is registered.
In its video meeting, the Board of Directors discussed 10 axes that started with the national teams file.