Al-Ayen University inaugurated the five-a-side football tournament.
Under the sponsorship of respected Chancellor of the University, Prof. Dr. Shafik S. Shafik, the Student Activities Department, in cooperation with the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, started a five-a-side football tournament for students of university.
Director of the Department, Dr. Hussein Muhaibes Tohme said, “The tournament included 64 teams representing the university’s departments and colleges. The tournament opened with matches between the two physical education teams, the third stage A and the third stage B, the second stage A, and the second stage B.” He added, “The tournament aims to instill a spirit of Love and cooperation among students, adding that this tournament came to enhance health and physical aspect and to strengthen social ties between students of the university’s departments and colleges. Pointing out that the university is a source of knowledge and inspiration and an essential foundation for spreading sports awareness.
He explained, "The sports level of Al-Ayen University is constantly developing and keeps pace with developments in the scientific field, indicating that the tournament system is a group system, with the opposite match between each two teams. He explained that university students need joint sports activities that qualify them to gain physical fitness and develop a program for those activities that are a health necessity for the body.
He stressed, "The Activities Department at the University will organize many tournaments within its internal curricula to be prepared for the competitions that will be organized by the Student Activities Department of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research."
