Aspire Academy's Class of 2020 Steps out for Challenges Ahead
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SPORT SPORT | 22 SPORT | 23 Football returns as Broad at peak of QSL dedicates powers: Former round 18 to England captain healthcare workers Strauss TUESDAY 28 JULY 2020 Academy graduates its 13th batch of future stars beIN SPORTS secures two-year MLB Aspire Academy's Class of 2020 broadcast deal THE PENINSULA – DOHA steps out for challenges ahead beIN MEDIA GROUP and Major League Baseball (MLB) have THE PENINSULA – DOHA announced a two-year media rights renewal agreement for 2020 and 2021 seasons. The academic year 2019-20 is a time The agreement will see beIN that people at Aspire Academy are SPORTS broadcast the two MLB going to remember for a long time. seasons across 24 territories in the Despite the suspension of on-campus Middle East and North Africa classes due to the COVID-19 outbreak, (MENA) and in France. Aspire Academy’s faculty and staff was The delayed and shortened still able to offer the many services 2020 MLB season begins on July 23 student-athletes rely on, even if they and is set to finish on September 27. were moved online, over the phone or For baseball fans in France and offered in a slightly different format. in the MENA, beIN will be the Training sessions were also shifted to exclusive home of MLB’s most the students’ homes and executed popular events – the MLB All Star under the coaches’ remote supervision. Game, the World Series, and MLB But this year is not only going to be Play-offs until the end of the 2021 remembered for how the people at season. Aspire successfully dealt with these In addition, beIN SPORTS will challenges, it is also a year that will be broadcast a minimum of two MLB remembered for the highest number matches per week throughout the of students that has ever graduated regular season. from the Academy within a single year. Commenting on beIN SPORTS’ Altogether the “Class of 2020” consists latest deal, Richard Verow, Chief of 42 graduates, among them 19 Sports Officer at beIN MEDIA football players, 14 competing in ath- GROUP, said: “We are delighted to letics, 2 in squash, 2 in table tennis, 3 have renewed our agreement with in shooting, 1 in fencing and 1 in golf. Major League Baseball until 2021 In total, 443 student-athletes have for fans in France and across the graduated from Aspire since 2008. Middle East and North Africa. With Due to the global pandemic the sit- dedicated programmes on screen, uation for the Grade 12-students was our subscribers will enjoy, once different compared to their prede- effort of Aspire Academy’s faculty hurdles event and represented Qatar again, the best of American baseball cessors. Their final exams in June during the COVID-19 outbreak. at the 2019 IAAF World Athletics on beIN SPORTS.” marked the first time they returned to “I know that it has been a chal- Championships in Doha. Aspire Academy after the nationwide lenging few month, especially for the Being described by his teachers as closure of schools in Qatar on the 10th teachers of Aspire Academy making I advise my colleagues to keep a well-respected student, who is a hard of March 2020. Stringent measures to sure that our students still have access their enduring readiness in worker, eager to succeed and a role safeguard and follow procedure in to the best available education through sports and not to give up on model when it comes to teamwork, his observing COVID-19 regulations were distance learning, while juggling work, difficult times and face coaches characterised his attitude, laid down and put in place to guar- homelife and the worries of a pan- challenges to reach the top. I motivation and work ethic as second antee the well-being of students and demic. The effort of the administration, thank my family, who supported to none. staff during the time of their exams. the resident educators and the student The 18-year-old Qatari praised the me to get to this point, as well Due to COVID-19, the graduation cer- affairs staff of Aspire Academy’s edu- support the student-athletes had emony had to be cancelled. cation department has been tre- as the teachers and all the received during the pandemic that Aspire Academy Director General, mendous as they kept in touch with members of my second family, enabled them to take the final exams Ivan Bravo applauded the efforts in a students and parents and thereby Aspire: Qatari track-and-field well prepared. According to him, very special year. ensured the smooth transition to dis- athlete Owaab Barrow Aspire had a great impact on his life. “No one could have imagined that tance learning and fostered the “After joining Aspire, I gained many these students’ final year was going to relationship.” skills notably striking a good balance Klopp wins LMA be so disrupted and the way the aca- Aspire Academy School Principal one of the main reasons you enrolled between sports and studies and I demic and the sporting season would Jassem Al Jaber praised the graduating at Aspire Academy. Always remember learned the meaning of responsibility Manager of the need to be completed. But the way that class for their effective participation, that you have a home in Aspire. We and respect for time. I have made many they have risen to the challenge speaks their spirit of teamwork and their sharp are always happy to see you again and sporting achievements and academi- Year award highly of their inner will, character and vision, that enabled them make to to offer you our support whenever you cally, I developed my Arabic language, focus. This special determination does proceed towards the achievement of might need it in the future,” he said. especially in writing. REUTERS – LONDON not simply apply to how you complete their goals in sports and school and One of the stand-out graduates of "I advise my colleagues to keep a diploma, but rather about how you that they could obtain the desired out- Aspire Academy’s Class of 2020 is their enduring readiness in sports and Liverpool boss Juergen Klopp was manage to push forward under difficult comes during this difficult period. track-and-field athlete Owaab Barrow, not to give up on difficult times and named League Managers’ Associ- situations the rest of your life,” Bravo “My advice to you is to continue who has been a part-time athlete with face challenges to reach the top. I thank ation (LMA) manager of the year said. the journey that you started at Aspire Aspire for four years prior to joining my family, who supported me to get yesterday after guiding the Badr Al Hay, Aspire Academy’s in higher education institutes while ful- the Academy full-time in 2019. During to this point, as well as the teachers Merseyside club to their first top- Director of Education and Student filling your dreams and our vision to this time won the gold medal at 2018 and all the members of my second flight title in 30 years. Affairs also paid tribute to the great become successful athletes, which was Youth Olympic Games in the 110m family, Aspire,” Barrow said. Klopp’s Liverpool side won the Premier League title with seven games to spare and they finished the season 18 points clear at the top of the table. The German coach pipped Murray ‘mentally’ planning forfor UUSS OpenOpen Leeds United boss Marcelo Bielsa, Wycombe Wanderers manager AFP – LONDON tennis season over “continueded uncertainties”.uncertainties”. Gareth Ainsworth and last year’s Several leading figuress have cast doubts overover thethe winner Chris Wilder of Sheffield Andy Murray (pictured) is “mentally” planning for next US Open, including worldd number one NovakNovak United to the Alex Ferguson Trophy month’s US Open but admits he is apprehensive about the Djokovic, who earlier this monthnth said -- named after the former Man- return of tennis following the coronavirus shutdown. he was undecided over whetherether chester United manager. The former world number one is taking part in the Battle to travel for the “I’m absolutely delighted to be of the Brits Team Tennis event in London this week and tournament. named the winner ... for this won- remains focused on the showpiece hard-court event in New “Hopefully it can go derful Sir Alex Ferguson Trophy, York, scheduled to start on August 31. ahead but, if not, I’m also named after a man that I admire so The British player told the Metro he was expecting the OK with that,” Murray said much,” Klopp said. US Open, which he won in 2012, to go ahead. in comments reported by thehe “Everything we have accom- “We have to try and prepare that way,” he said. “We were Guardian. plished at Liverpool this year saying four or five weeks ago, you know, we were pretty “It’s not like I’m saying it must go couldn’t have been done without the sceptical about it but mentally at some stage you need to ahead. We need to try to get backack to competing superb input of my coaching staff; start preparing and planning for that.” “I’m planning to try when it’s safe to do so. Somee sports have gone they make us a really special bunch and be there in shape for the US Open,” he added. “If it wasn’t back, and seem to have donene pretty well -- of football brains. happening my schedule for practising, my rehab would all football, for example. The issueue for us is the “I love to work with my coaches, be a bit different.