Al-Jazira Club

Football club infobox
clubname = Al-Jazira Club


fullname = Al-Jazira Sporting Club
founded = 19 March 1974
ground = Al Jazira Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium,
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
capacity = 20,000
chairman = flagicon|UAE Hamdan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan
manager = flagicon|BRA Abel Braga
league = UAE League
season = 2007-08
position = UAE League, 2nd
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Al Jazira Club (also spelled "Al Jazeera Club", Arabic: نادي الجزيرة) is a sporting club in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Facilities

Âl Jazira club is located in Al Muroor neighborhood in the capital Abu Dhabi. The facilities provided are highly advanced and the technological achievements are proudly comparable with any international arena or main football stadium.

Currently, Al Jazira Club are constructing a new gym comprising of four floors for a variety of sports such as handball, volleyball, and basketball. The ground floor comprises a VIP entrance and lecture hall, offices, three changing rooms for players, a health club and a hall for weightlifting.

The first floor contains 32 bedrooms as accommodation for club’s players and guests attending onsite training camps. The second floor comprises four changing rooms for players and two rooms for referees. The VIP platform is on the third floor with enough space for one hundred people in addition to a private majlis (reception hall). The fourth floor has a media centre, rooms for commentators and a supervision/monitoring room for the gym. The new gym is spacious enough for more than two thousand athletes.

The Khalifa Al Muhairi Hall includes handball, volleyball, and basketball facilities with space for a thousand spectators. All the facilities required to host a major championships for any of these sports are also provided.

Al Jazira Club also includes six secondary football pitches.

Al Jazira Club also has an Olympic size swimming pool which is covered, air-conditioned and equipped with underwater cameras and music sets. It is large enough to fit four hundred people and has already successfully hosted a large number of local and foreign championships. The Club also contains a bowling hall with six alleys used for training the Club team as well as the National teams. It will be hosting the resident community’s championships in Abu Dhabi.

In the Al Jazira Club there are three health clubs; the first is located separately near the swimming pool and includes a steam room, sauna, hot water basin, cold water basin and a jacuzzi, the second is located on the main platform for the first football team and the third is situated in the new hall and is used by the other teams of the club.

Al Jazira Club has its own physiotherapy unit which is equipped with the most modern instruments and apparatus for the treatment of injuries. The specialists work under supervision of the Club’s doctor and are all well-trained to handle sports injuries.

The club also includes 26 residentials flats for staff and trainers of the club and a restaurant equipped to serve one hundred people.

The Al Jazira club home stadium is the Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Stadium.

Future

As part of the Al Jazira Club’s future plans and projects, new branches of the club will be started in the Al Shawamikh, Al Bahya and Wathba areas to encourage the discovery of new talented players and add them to the club teams. These branches will provide training facilities nearer to players’ residences so they will not be required to travel daily to the club premises in Abu Dhabi. The total cost of these three branches will be 60 million dirhams. Each branche will consist of a football field, volleyball and handball grounds, changing rooms for players, offices for management and training coaches and all other necessary facilities and utilities.

There is also a plan to build a nine storey residential building, comprising 36 residential flats for staff and several offices for management.

Club history

On 19th 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.

Honours

* UAE Federation cup: 2007Manager,Dutchman, Jan Versleijenwho also led the team to a second place in the League and to the President's Cup final

* Gulf Club Champions Cup: 2007

Current squads

alsandro BianoRafail sobisRetrieved from Al-Jazira Official Page [http://jc.ae/web2/index.php?goto=team&type=FB&lang=en] .

Famous Players

*Flagicon|Brazil Fernandão
*Flagicon|Brazil Fernando Baiano
*Flagicon|Netherlands Phillip Cocu
*Flagicon|Liberia George Weah
*Flagicon|Liberia James Debbah
*Flagicon|Angola Maurito
*Flagicon|Mozambique Dário Monteiro
*Flagicon|England Reginald Dwight
*Flagicon|Ivory Coast Joel Tihi
*Flagicon|Togo Mamam Cherif Touré
*Flagicon|Togo Mohamed Kader
*Flagicon|Somalia Robleh Jama
*Flagicon|Nigeria Bartholomew Ogbeche
*Flagicon|Colombia Elson Becerra
*Flagicon|CIV Bonaventure Kalou
*Flagicon|ZMB Elijah Tana
*Flagicon|ZMB Andrew Crosswood

Other teams

Handball

*Mohamed Jumah Khalifa
*Mohamed Thayib Khalaf Gulam Al Blushi
*Saeed Hasan Salem Mohamed Al Zaabi
*Ahmed Al Shain Mubarak Sultan Al Junaibi
*Saeed salem Al Ameri
*Nasser Saif Al Neaimi
*Ahamed Abdulla Ali Mohamed Al Shumari
*Abdulla Ahmed Al Hosani
*Abdulla hassan Al Swidi
*Salah Aldeen Mohyialdeen
*Hamad Khalfan
*Sultan Tawfek Fayroz
*Salah Mubarak Dhuhai Mubarak
*Khalid Naser Salah Al Hadadhi
*Fahd Darweish Jumah S. Jumah
*Jasem Mohamed Abdulla Salem
*Jumaa Obaid Rashed Saadan Al Kemzari
*Ahmed Hamed Hamod Saleh
*Khalifa Masoud Rashed H. Al Bloushi
*Mohamed Atek Seif Farhan
*Aadhil Musbah Salem Al Shamsi
*Khalid Ahmed Mohamed Sulaiman

Volleyball

*Obaid Mubarak Al Zaabi
*Mansoor Omar Abdulla Al Kasiri
*Mohasen Ahmed Al Atas
*Saife Rashid Saife Al Ameri
*Abdulla Salem Faraj Bin Maadhi
*Hassan Awad Hamad Salem
*Tariq Abdulla Awad
*Hadi Saleh awad Al Wahdi
*Yahya Omar Abdulla Al Kasiri
*Hamad Omar Abdulla Al Kasiri
*Ahmed Hussain Ahmed Al Atas
*Abdul Hameed Ali Hasen Al Sadi
*Awad Salem Faraj Bin Maadhi
*Mohamed Ahmed hessen Al Atas
*Mohamed Mubarak Al Badi

wimming

*Omar Musaadh Abdullah: Backstroke & Butterfly stroke
*Al Munzir Thajudeen: Break Stroke
*Waleed Mansour Abdullah: Breaststroke & Backstroke
*Khalid Mansour Abdullah: Breaststroke & Backstroke
*Mubarak Mubarak Fairooz: Breaststroke & Butterfly stroke
*Ibrahim Mohamed Saif: Breaststroke & Freestyle
*Hamdhan Abbas Zubair Hasan: Breaststroke & Freestyle
*Saif Abdullah Ali: Freestyle
*Adil Salem Al Maskari
*Hisham Hasen Al Afandi: Coach

Table tennis

*Omer Tahir Ahmed Al Hamidi
*Haitham Isam Hosain Al Habashi
*Hamid Isam Hosain Al Habashi
*Abd Arazaq Abdulla Al Bastaki
*Abdulla Ahmed Al Tenaiji

Bowling

*Saleh Fahad Abdul Hadi
*Nayeef Uquab Abdullah
*Mohamed Khalifa Al Kubaisi
*Hulaiman Mubarak Al Hamili

External links

* [http://www.jc.ae Official site]