Bahrainis set for GCC volleyball.BAHRAIN's national volleyball volleyball, outdoor or indoor ball and net game played on a level court. An upright net, 3 ft (or 1 m) high, the top of which stands 8 ft (2.43 m) from the ground for men, 7 ft 4 1/8 in (2. team will face a tricky task as they begin their title race against title holders Qatar in the eighth GCC GCC: see Gulf Cooperation Council. (compiler, programming) GCC - The GNU Compiler Collection, which currently contains front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj, etc). Championship which takes place in Muscat Muscat, Maskat, or Masqat (all: mŭs`kăt, mŭs`kət), city (1993 pop. 533,774), capital of Oman, SE Arabia, on the Gulf of Oman. It is flanked by rugged mountains. next month. The Bahrainis will take on three-time champions Qatar on December 10 on the first day of this week-long round robin tournament. They then play another title contenders Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia (sä  `dē ərā`bēə, sou`–, sô–), officially Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, kingdom (2005 est. pop. the following
day, before facing hosts Oman on December 13, Kuwait on December 14 and
finally the UAE on December 16.
Bahrain, who won the competition two times in 1995 and in 2003, will head for Cairo this weekend for a week-long training camp to gear up for the upcoming event. The team is presently having daily practicing sessions at the Juffair Youth Centre under their new coach Yousef Khalifa. During their recent training session, the team were visited by General Organisation for Youth and Sports' sports affairs undersecretary Abdulaziz Al Ashraf. Al Ashraf, who was briefed on the team's training programme, urged the players put up their best performance in the championship. He conveyed the greetings of Goys president Shaikh Fawaz bin Mohammed Al Khalifa to members of the team and wished them success. On his part, Bahrain Volleyball Association's general secretary Feras Al Halwaji expressed appreciation for the significant role of the Goys' president in supporting the team for the GCC championship. Al Halwaji said the association officials have been working hard with the team in recent weeks and that the players are determined to come back to the kingdom with the trophy. Copyright 2009 Gulf Daily News Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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