Al Jazira (UAE)
Al Jazira Club (also spelled Al Jazeera Club, Arabic: نادي الجزيرة) is a sporting club in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
On 19 March 1974, the club was officially established. It was formed when members of Al Khalidiyah Club (established 1969) and members of Al Bateen Club (established 1973) agreed to merge, forming a new club more spacious and capable of containing a bigger number of youth to practice their different hobbies in an educational atmosphere that enhanced the molding of hobbies and talents; where greater facilities would be available for creativeness and excellence.
The First board of directors was formed in 1974 with H. E. Mohammad Khalifa Al Kindi as chairman who maintained chairmanship till 1986, when H. H. Sheikh Sultan Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan assumed chairmanship of the Board until 1992 passing it to his brother H. H. Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan who was himself a player in the Club’s football team along with his younger brother H. H. Sheikh Saeed Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, the current chairman of the Balling Federation.
H. H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Hamad Al Nahyan contributed in enhancing the administrative work in the Club for a long period through his contribution in the Supreme Sports Committee. Sheikh Saif Bin Mohammad Bin Buti assumed chairmanship of the Board of Directors of the Club between 1988 and 1994 succeeded by H. E. Khalfan Ghaith Al Muhairbi from 1995 to 1997 to be succeeded by H. E. Hamad Bin Mohammad Bin Brook between 1998 to 2000, when H. E. Buti Bin Mohammed Al Qubaisi, the previous centre forward of the club and member of the Board of Directors was appointed chairman of the Board of Directors from 2000 till date.
H. H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Zayed AL Nahyan’s assuming the Honorary Chairmanship of the Club and Chairmanship of the Honorary Panel, along with H. H. Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan as president of the Club and Vice Chairman of the Honorary Panel in addition to the close follow up, has had the most positive impact in molding and refining the technical and sport skills and consolidating them in the players. This is in addition to the most modern sport installations and facilities the First of which is Al Jazira Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium.
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