Muscat,(ONA) - The Ministry of Sports Affairs celebrates every year the announcement of the results of His Majesty the Sultan Cup for Youth, which comes in the context of the great interest in the sports and youth sectors from His Majesty the Sultan and the continuous care that His Majesty attaches to the development of human resources in general and sports in particular to ensure that young people contribute to the process of building society and assume their national duties.
This competition is a translation of the high interest that His Majesty attaches to the sports and youth sectors because of the importance it represents for building people who have always been the focus of comprehensive development for the blessed renaissance process. This competition contributes to raising the level of sports, social and cultural activities that meet the requirements of society groups, and enhances the role of sports clubs in contributing to the rehabilitation of the youth program sector and building its basic base based on instilling all the values of work and production and linking with the issues of the country and its aspirations and organizing various events for young people in all its categories as part of its priorities and interests directed at serving the community.
His Excellency Rashad bin Ahmed Al-Hinai, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Sports Affairs, will chair the committee supervising the evaluation of His Majesty the Sultan Cup for Youth, whose membership includes Khalifa bin Saif Al-Eisaei, Director General of Sports Activities at the Ministry, and Khaled bin Al-Habeeb Al-Hashani, Minister’s Advisor for Sports Planning, Honoured Aisha Al-Darmakia, and journalist Nasser bin Hamad Darwish and Saud bin Badr Ambossaidi, Director of the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex in the Ministry, as a member and a rapporteur.
The Ministry of Sports Affairs has been keen to push the process of effective cooperation with various institutions, government agencies and community institutions in developing youth programs, while emphasizing the role of sports clubs in developing the youth sector as a basic partner and converting their energies into projects and activities that help increase volunteer work and give to serve the community, in the context of promoting one of the pivotal goals of this competition, which is to encourage the efforts made by sports clubs to develop and improve their performance at all levels and achieve quality standards in sports management.
In addition, the main committee of the competition sought to activate the process of follow-up and coordination with sports clubs through the help teams. The candidacy files were received after making sure that the sports clubs completed all the required data and approved them by the associations, committees and departments concerned about the activities and programs that were implemented during the past year. The main committee of the competition is entrusted with evaluating these files according to the approved standards and controls.
The main committee of the competition had approved the electronic transformation process in calculating and evaluating the results of the clubs participating in the competition. The program was launched in cooperation with one of the leading institutions in this field. It was designed to suit the stages of the transformation plan for the e-government and the role of different government institutions to provide more electronic services, especially with the readiness of the infrastructure of the information and communications technology sector in the Sultanate to implement the transformation plan.
In this context, Khalifa bin Saif Al-Eisaei, Director General of Sports Activities at the Ministry of Sports Affairs, a member of the main committee of the competition, said, “The care of His Majesty the Sultan for the youth requires all of us to double the effort and perseverance and sharpen the interest in caring for young people and give them priority in providing the appropriate conditions and capabilities available to achieve and materialize ideas and visions as they are the present and the future”.
Al- Eisaei indicated that the youth and sports sector witnessed during the past years positive growth rates thanks to the interest and support that this sector finds in various sporting and youth activities. The high directives came to support the clubs’ annual financial allocations to develop their infrastructure in order to improve and promote youth sports activities in the Sultanate.
Al-Eisaei added that the electronic transformation in the His Majesty Youth Cup competition will give the competition more transparency and credibility to the files submitted by the clubs. He also said that the electronic program came to encourage clubs to participate in this cup with ease to record their data and activities and their approval by the associations, sports committees and departments affiliated to the Ministry.
Al-Eisaei said, “Each club will record its data, activities and events that it participated in during the past year which will be approved electronically by sports associations, committees, and departments of the Ministry. The next stage will include the implementation of training workshops for representatives of clubs and the departments of the Ministry in order to guide them and clarify how to use the electronic system and ways to deal with it in a way that ensures the participation of all clubs, which is the second stage following the stage of sports associations and committees. At the same time, he affirmed that this program will contribute to the participation of many clubs in the Sultanate, stressing that the Ministry does its best to make all the Sultanate’s clubs participate in this precious competition, which bears the name of His Majesty the Sultan.
The electronic transformation stages of His Majesty the Sultan Cup for Youth are represented in five stages, two of which have been completed and three stages remain. In the first stage, the sports associations, committees and departments of the Ministry were addressed with the programs and competitions that took place in the last season and were included in the electronic system. In the second stage, the sports associations, committees and the Ministry’s departments added the clubs that participated in the competitions of each association and committee as well as the results achieved by the clubs in each of the competitions in which they participated. As for the third stage, the electronic system for clubs will be opened, where each club will confirm the participations and results achieved during its participation, as well as the financial and administrative report of the Board of Directors. In the fourth stage, the main committee to evaluate the competition verifies the compatibility of the results between the data entered by the associations and the clubs and the scores obtained by each club after its approval of all entries, as well as looking at the observations and inquiries that may come from clubs and the responses of the associations and committees to these inquiries. In the last stage after completing the verification, the result of the score obtained by each club according to its participation appears on the club page without mentioning the position or arrangement obtained by each club. Finally, the winners will be announced in an annual celebration held by the ministry.
The clubs will be assessed according to their participation in terms of the number of activities and results achieved in their internal participation and in their participation in team and individual games. They will also be assessed according to their external participations if any and their participation in the youth activities and programs that the ministry annually holds. as well as the administrative and financial activity of each board of directors. The number of activities registered in this edition of the competition was 95 activities, divided into 25 group sports competitions, 42 individual sports competitions implemented by the associations and sports committees, 28 youth activities and administrative and financial activity.
In a related context, training workshops for club representatives will start next week for two days. A club name and password will be assigned to each club in order to access is page as an association. The workshop will include an explanation for club representatives of the mechanism for reviewing the competitions in which the club participated and how to confirm the participation and the result or status obtained by each club, in addition to how to make comments and inquiries by the clubs, if any.
This workshop was preceded by another one for representatives of sports associations and committees to guide them in the correct way in how to enter competitions, activities and results achieved by the participating clubs with each association or committee.
The committee supervising the evaluation of the His Majesty the Sultan Cup for Youth will set a date for the clubs through which the club can review its participation and the results. The club representatives can access the club's page through the Ministry's website, www.mosa.gov.om.
Since launched in 1998, His Majesty the Sultan Cup for Youth has been awarded to a number of clubs, as follows: Al-Seeb Club (1998), Nizwa Club (1999), Al-Nasr Club (2000), Al-Nasr Club (2001), Nizwa Club (2002), Al-Seeb Club (2003), Nizwa Club (2004), Al-Seeb Club (2005), Al-Seeb Club (2006), Al-Seeb Club (2007), Al-Seeb Club (2008), Al-Seeb Club (2009), Al-Ittifaq Club (2010), Al-Nasr Club (2011), Al-Seeb Club (2012), Saham Club (2013), Al-Seeb Club (2014), Al-Seeb Club (2015), Al-Seeb Club (2016), Al-Seeb Club (2017), and Ahli Sidab Club (2018).
The mission of this competition is to achieve a more comprehensive and profound vision of the role of sports clubs as an institution to educate young people physically, intellectually and culturally in a balanced way, and to cultivate and promote the concept of citizenship and volunteer work in them. His Majesty the Sultan Cup for Youth also aims to support and highlight the efforts made by sports clubs with the aim of developing and improving their performance at all sports, youth, administrative and financial levels in accordance with the approved evaluation criteria and encouraging clubs to achieve quality standards in the field of sports management by providing appropriate moral and material incentives. It also aims to develop sports and youth work by supporting initiatives that help achieve the goals of sports clubs, highlighting the concept of work in the sports field and raising awareness of the importance of clubs in caring for young people and responding to their aspirations.
The ten clubs with the highest scores are awarded with the winning prizes of His Majesty the Sultan Cup for Youth. The rewards as follows: The first place will receive His Majesty the Sultan Cup for Youth along with OMR 30,000, the second place will receive the Ministry’s Silver Shield and along with OMR 28,000, the third place will receive the Ministry’s Bronze Shield along with OMR 26,000, the fourth place will receive OMR 24,000, the fifth place will receive OMR 22.000, the sixth place will receive OMR 20,000, the seventh place will receive OMR 18,000, the eight place will receive OMR 16,000, the ninth place will receive OMR 14,000, and finally the tenth place will receive OMR 12,000.
(ONA)