Rural Damascus - SANA
Despite its recent establishment in 2015, Al-Harjla Sports Club was able to win the bet to quickly move into football into the limelight and qualify for the Premier League with merit and merit to prove that the will, determination and cooperation between the cadres and the civil society have resulted in success.
Every year since the club was founded, the club has been promoted from the third division to the second to the first, and recently it was able to win the qualification card to the Premier League without suffering any loss since the beginning of the first division competitions in all its roles.
The president of the club, Abdul Rahman Al-Khatib, and in an interview with the SANA sports bulletin, he mentioned that Al-Harjalah is a small village in the countryside of Damascus with a population of about 10,000 people, most of whom love the first popular game in the world, which is football, pointing out that the cooperation between the Damascus countryside governorate, the civil society and the club management resulted in building A facility that includes a football stadium, an Olympia pool, and three combat games halls.
Al-Khatib added: Since the beginning of the club’s establishment, we have set two goals for our work within a well-studied strategy by specialists and technicians, the first of which is to reach the Premier League to raise the name of the town high and to represent the Governorate of Damascus countryside in the league for the first time in the governorate’s history. This is what was achieved last Wednesday, and the second is to contribute to a national football industry that supports Clubs and teams are the best of talents, so all the requirements have been prepared to achieve this goal, starting with the cultural facility and the distinguished stadium, which is the pride of the stadiums in Damascus countryside.
The club president stated that ambition will not stop upon qualifying for the Premier League, but will extend to competition in it for advanced positions, and we will not be merely participants or seeking to remain in it because our work as management, cadres, players and supporters continues and a new phase has begun commensurate with the event in order to prove to everyone that our arrival in the Premier League is not Just a leap or coincidence, but rather it is the result of thoughtful planning and based on sound technical and scientific foundations.
Al-Khatib explained that the Harjila team is the “Lions of Damascus Countryside”, as its fans like to call it, winning the top of the southern group with a group of distinguished and talented players who left an indelible imprint in the eyes of followers and those interested in the supervision of coach Muhammad Shadid. The team fought all its matches with full responsibility and the spirit of familiarity, love and cooperation is Dominating the family atmosphere, which in turn resulted in qualifying to play with the adults in the Premier League.
The Harjila team had finished the first division without a loss, and this was what no team had previously achieved. In the first round, it came in the second group. It defeated the governorate 4 - zero, drew 1-1, tied with Jeroud 0 - zero, won 3 - zero and tied with Jarmana twice, 1-1 He tied with Al-Arabi 0-0 and won 6-2 and defeated Al-Nidal 2-0 and 4-1. In the second round, he defeated Al-Waqha 2-1 and 4-0, tied with Al-Mohafaza 1-1, won 2-1, tied with Al-Majd 1-1, 3-3. He reached the final round and defeated Al-Tadamon, 4-0, and scored in 17 matches, played 39 goals and conceded 13 goals.
In addition to football, the club plays three fighting games: judo, taekwondo and karate.
Muhammad Al-Khater