All Sports aiming high to represent Lebanon in the Asian championship

The Newly promoted team stole the headlines by leading the Lebanese league

by Charbel Krayem

All Sports just finished the 1st leg of the Lebanese Futsal league on the top of the table. This newly promoted team stole the headlines by winning all its matches, which is a big success for this team after its domination in the transfer market through attracting the most prominent names that pushed the game forward in Lebanon in recent seasons.

Despite the novelty of its reign in Futsal, All Sports imposed itself strongly versus its rivals after the dissolution of signatures and the emancipation of all the players from their contracts. All Sports confirmed that winning the second division and reaching the Lebanese Cup semi-final in its first season in the game, was just only the beginning to walk on the path to success.

The great ambitions for this club were obvious through its campaign in negotiating the most important players; just few days after the end of the last season. Its seriousness encouraged an important part of the international players to join its squad, like the defensive duo Ibrahim Hammoud and Kassem Kawsan, and the attacking talents Mahmoud Itani and Haitham Atwi.

All Sports did not stop at this point, but insisted to attract some of the elements that have emerged in the game during the last two seasons, such as Yasser Salman, Hassan Tawbe, and Mohamad Iskandarani. More importantly, the team managed to keep the pillars that have contributed to the achievement of last season as veteran goalkeeper Ali Jebaili, Ramzi Abi Haidar, Samer Yehya, Hussein Salameh and the most promised talent in Lebanese Futsal Hassan Zeytoun.

From here, it seems the team of head coach Sohad Zahran is the strongest candidate to win the title this season, and represent Lebanon in the Asian Club Championship which expected in mid 2011 in Qatar.

Representing Lebanon was the first goal of the club and its president Walid Hilal who was aiming to achieve this “dream” since the first day he founded the team, as he said: "Every time we met with a candidate player to join us, he expressed a great enthusiasm to sign a contract, and the reason is because we were clear about the goals that we want to achieve, so very quickly we were able to gain the confidence of the national team stars who showed enthusiasm to do this step."

He added: "representing Lebanon in the Asian cup is a priority for us, and if we make it we will do our best to keep the good image of Lebanese Futsal just like the national team did".

It seems Hilal is confident about the capacity of his team who has not lost any friendly or official match so far in the new season: "the chemistry appeared quickly between the players, and the technical staff is doing a great job".









Posted by Luca Ranocchiari --> luca.ranocchiari@futsalplanet.com