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Feb 13 2011

Dubai Sports City deal will enhance sports

Sunday, Feb 13, 2011

Gulf News

Teams up with Council on new strategic plans

Dubai A top official from the Dubai Sports City (DSC) is convinced last week’s Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Dubai Sports Council will further firm up the country’s sporting portfolio on the international scene.

“It is but right for us as those responsible for sports in Dubai to have this sort of understanding with arguably one of the best sporting facilities in the region. Such an agreement can only benefit everyone in the long run and entrench Dubai’s name as a destination for varied other aspects of sports,” Dr. Ahmad Saad Al Sharif, Secretary-General, DSC told Gulf News.

The MoU between the two bodies was signed last week with Dr Sharif representing the Dubai Sports Council while Sports City President Khalid Al Zarouni and Mansour Abdul Rahman Falaknaz were present on behalf of the top sports facilities in the UAE. “On several occasions in the past we have received several requests either from associations, clubs or national teams requesting for facilities. This is a completely different area that we are tapping into with this agreement,” Dr Sharif said.

Besides the use of facilities by visiting teams, the strategic partnership between the two Dubai sports bodies will ensure the use of the academies located at the sports city to train the UAE’s national squads and sports persons.

After touring the facilities at the Sports City, Dr Sharif said no athlete or team from any part of the world will have a reason to complain.

Ryan Hernandez/Gulf News

Dr Ahmad Al Sharif

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By Alaric Gomes?Senior Reporter

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The article is just more propaganda. Dubai Sports City will NEVER be what it was marketed as in 2007. A lot of buyers have been left high and dry and without an apartment they purchased and paid for because these projects are all primarily on hold and may never be completed or it will take 20 years before this happens. Who has the time to wait for this when developers defaulted on their contracts? All they have is a cricket stadium, where are all the other promised projects and stadiums that have not been built? So it's okay for the DSC officials to get away with ripping people off is it? Why isn't there a law protecting buyers from scoundrels like the Master Developer or its various sub developers in DSC. All con merchants. They all should be charged for marketing a product that hasn't been completed as was promised in the contract. All the renders in the world (glossy pictures and brochures) was they way they sold it to world. Where are all the sporting arenas? It's dead as a doorstick, Manchester United left and you have Real Madrid going to Abu Dhabi instead. DSC is dead!

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He must have walked around with his eyes shut. Sports City is a ghost town and cannot be completed for many many years to come. There is only one cricket stadium complete and most of their developers have or seem to have gone broke. As an investor (5yrs ago) I have yet to be convinced that this will ever be finished. The royals (Like Britain) arestill getting fatter on the backs of others, greed has affected their eyesight.

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