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Tribune News Network
Doha
To celebrate the occasion of 'Qatar-Germany 2017 Year of Culture', a women's football team from Germany has arrived in Doha to play a friendly match against Qatari counterparts at the Qatar Women's Sport Committee main venue at Aspire Zone today (November 6) at 6pm.
The game will be open for all to witness and admission to the venue is free.
The match has been organised by the German Football Ambassador in partnership with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Goethe-Institut Gulf Region.
The special exchange between the football teams has been initiated by the German Football Ambassador by bringing female football players from Germany and Qatar together for joint training and friendly match.
The twenty-five young women players from Germany will be in Doha from November from 3 to 7.
The German and Qatari women's football history was highlighted when Monika Staab trained the Qatari women's national team in 2014. She was named"German Football Ambassador" in 2014 for her efforts to introduce, together with the Qatari Football Association, effective structures for training of women football players from early ages and support them throughout their careers.
Staab was nominated as a member of the board of trustees for Qatar Germany 2017 by the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany due to her contribution towards the Qatari-German friendship.
Roland Bischof of the German Football Ambassador said,"It is great to see how football connects people worldwide and we are honoured to contribute to the social-cultural exchange between the Qatari and the German team.
"Based on the engagement of Monika Staab in Qatar we are looking ahead to further the friendship between the two countries."
As the programme is aimed at intensifying relations of the two teams, the four-day-long visit also includes a tour of the Museum of Islamic Art as well as a joint desert trip. The guests from Germany will also visit the Aspire Academy to get a deeper insight into their counterparts' training in Qatar.
Peter Ziegler, Deputy Head of the German Embassy in Doha said,"The friendly match between the German and the Qatari women's team is just one example of the excellent cooperation between German and Qatari sport institutions that are not only covering stars but also young talent."
The 'Qatar-Germany 2017 Year of Culture' is a year-long programme designed to deepen understanding between nations through mutual exchange of arts, culture, heritage and sport, developed by Qatar Museums in partnership with the Goethe-Institut Gulf Region, the German Embassy in Doha and the Embassy of Qatar in Germany.
