Damascus-Sana
The Committee of Sports Journalists today honored the distinguished athletes, clubs and sports federations for the year 2020 and a number of sports journalists during its ceremony in Al-Galaa Sports City in Damascus in cooperation with the General Sports Federation and sponsored by Cham Wings Airlines.
The honor included Al-Jaish club player Mohamed Al-Wakid, the club’s historic top scorer and player Maher Al-Sayed for entering the Hundred Club by playing 108 international matches from 1998 until 2013, Al-Wehda Club by crowning the Super Championships and the Republic Cup for Football, and Tishreen Club by crowning the Premier League Football and Cycling Union after the great success that He achieved it in the October Trails and the Swimming Association for the brilliance of its cadres by organizing the Tishreen International Long and Quarter Swimming Championships, Ahed Jagili, for achieving fourth place in the 2012 London Olympics, where he won this place last month after the first and fourth place winners were eliminated for proof of doping, in addition to the special sports champions qualified for Paralympic Tokyo They are Alaa Abdel Salam, Ali Asaad, and the distinguished players Fatima Al Hassan and Noura Badour.
A number of media experiences were honored from various audiovisual media, including the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).
The President of the General Sports Federation, Firas Mualla, indicated in a statement to the representative of SANA Sports the importance of this honor, which the Committee of Sports Journalists used to hold on an annual basis, which comes in recognition of the achievement of athletes in various championships, as well as a tribute to media professionals specialized in the sports side for the great efforts they exert in highlighting the athletes and their achievements And their championships, pointing to the strong presence of sports media, especially in the international tournaments recently hosted by Syria.
President of the Union of Journalists, Musa Abdel Nour explained that the committee honors distinguished athletes after a referendum conducted to select the best athletes in Syria, but because of the Corona pandemic last year, the referendum was not organized, so this year the committee honored the accomplished athletes and clubs, in addition to honoring the media professionals who accompany the sports movement, indicating cooperation Al-Kabeer with the General Sports Federation and Cham Wings Company to hold this party.
Chairman of the Sports Journalists Committee, Iyad Nasser, said that this ceremony confirms the media partnership with the Sports Federation, which has proven its success strongly, especially in the Tishreen Trail Race and the Tishreen Long Swimming Race, which witnessed a televised broadcast of the competitions using underwater cameras, where the International Swimming Federation decided to assign the championship to organizing a cup. World to swim to Syria.
Osama Sateh, Director of Public Relations and Business Development at Cham Wings Company, in turn, explained that the company's contribution to honoring athletes and media professionals working in the sports field is an initiative that is not the first and comes as an appreciation of the achievements made by athletes in various games on the one hand and the efforts made by the sports media in conveying the Syrian sport message to various On the other hand, around the world, wishing that this initiative would constitute a catalyst for economic activities to support various aspects of life in Syria, including sports.
A number of the honorees expressed their happiness with this honor, which formed an incentive for them to double their training and prepare vigorously for the upcoming entitlements to achieve remarkable achievements and raise the Syrian flag high in international forums.
The honoring ceremony was attended by Deputy Information Minister Ahmed Dhawa and President of the Army Club Brigadier General Mohsen Abbas and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Levant Wings Company Anwar Shamout
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