Legendary NFL Commissioner visits GSF
May 11, 2009
Mr. Paul Tagliabue, former Commissioner of the National Football League, visited the Global Sport Fund office, on Monday.
Widely acclaimed as the force behind the legendary "labour peace movement" at the National Football League (NFL) and regarded as the architect of the global success of the modern day version of NFL, Mr. Tagliabue took a keen interest in the ongoing activities of the GSF.
Mr. Carl Marsh, the GSF International Project Coordinator, explained how the GSF works from its base in Doha in order to get youth around the world to take up amateur sports and develop positive social skills at the same time.
Mr. Marsh further explained how the unique feature of the programme was not only to rely on coaches to hone the techniques in a sport but to also train youngsters how to constructively utilize their spare time in various after-school sports activities.
Mr. Tagliabue expressed his keenness to coordinate with GSF and explore areas of cross-learning and mutual interest and promised to share the successes of similar programmes that he is engaged with, in the United States of America.
During his visit Mr. Tagliabue was given a pictorial presentation of GSF's youth camps in Lebanon, Tunisia, Palestine and Qatar and briefed on the previous and future projects of GSF.
Mr. Tagliabue was accompanied by Mr. Malik R. Dahlan, Principal and Chief Lawyer at the London-based Institution Quraysh for Law and Policy.
Earlier, Mr. Tagliabue and Mr. Dahlan had called upon H.E. Sheikh Saoud Bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, the Secretary-General of the Qatar Olympic Committee.
