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Kuwait’s education ministry has launched a probe into the reasons for the extraordinarily heavy defeat of the national girls’ school football team despite spending more than $1.2 million on a training camp in the Czech Republic.
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“Encouraged by the assurances given by the team officials, the ministry allocated KD350,000 ($1,242,060) for a training camp in the Czech Republic. However, it seems that the camp was turned into a vacation, with the players training for only three hours a day while the rest of the time was spent on recreational activities,” the spokesperson said, quoted by the daily on Monday. [Source]
The world record for the largest victory in an international football match is 31 – 0 with Australia winning over American Samoa in 2001. At one point Kuwait held the record by beating Bhutan 20 – 0. [Source]
Update: Just received the following comment:
Kindly remove the photo and issue an apology for your misleading article.
The women in this picture (and I am among them, number ten) are members of the National Women’s Football of Team of Kuwait. This picture was taken in the ONLY official game that the team played: a qualifying friendly against Qatar in May 2012.
Your article, on the other hand, discusses the losses that the Women’s Futsal Under 17 Team sustained. They are neither outdoor players, nor do they comprise of the main team.
More on the subject: the women who played the canonical Palestine match (and the UAE match to a lesser degree) are also not the official Women’s Football team.
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Shameful. 😐
What’s the world record for the largest victory in an international football got to do with a school match?
Because world record for the largest victory is also the same as the record for the largest defeat. get it?
The post is about a school football match, and you’re comparing it with a FIFA international game. Get it?
My mistake, next time I’ll compare it to how many cupcakes you can eat.
LOL
WTF, what the hell is #4 doing between those girls??? or some the other good looking numbers… OMG TOMBOYS ALERT
By the way its been a while now for the shameful results, all i can that the team needs a better management, and money will spent on that part not BIG CAKE AND LETS TAKE OUR SHARE FROM IT… Welcome to Kuwait People
Who gives a shit if she’s a tomboy go away
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Did you read the other shit i wrote or your just interested in the first Part?
just making a comment like any buddy in the freaking blog, or personal opinions these days by you or anyone else should be insulted if not liked… and WTF “GO AWAY” for exactly wain shaifney ga3ed??????????
there’s a huge difference between opinion and judgement. you are pointing out the obvious, which means you are judging them by their appearance. if they are tomboys then let them be, you don’t have to bring negative connotations to the word by capitalizing it.
Thanks for the reply on my comment, witch is by the way very respectful and intelligent reply, but other one just went “GO AWAY”…
sorry for being judgmental, but it looks like young brother after a fight, its nice to have my daughter in a Football team one day but i wouldn’t ask her to be muscling for the sake of the game…”NOT LIKE THAT GUY”
Tariq- clearly you need some education – perhaps starting with Pre-KG. The article is about the game result, not the looks of the players. Who gives a flying what they look like.
WOW KG, clearly you also didn’t read the rest of what i wrote MR “I NEED EDUCATION”…
Typical
you know what talking about this subject is totally ineffectual, please go give Pre-KG education somewhere else…
OK I am going to be judgmental on this government. Why didn’t this government monitor this camp to evaluate the progress of these players? Who was running this camp and why weren’t they qualified to create a serious approach to the sport? And why do I feel that this is to downgrade women in sports in Kuwait by using some juvenile rumor to discredit them in the public? yes, I suspect it is a smear campaign against women in sports, more than likely by the Islamic movement. (Once again)
I suspect you’re smearing, without any evidence, the “Islamic movement” once again.
What? Arabs/Khaleejis misusing government funding and not doing their job and basically getting paid to do nothing? Shocking, I tell you–Shocking!
Lol +1
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KD 350.000,– for a training camp in the Czech Republic?
You can buy a complete training complex in the Czech Republic for that amount of money..
Abdullah never received any kind of support. Only from his family and friends.
https://248am.com/mark/sports/a-follow-up-with-the-pearl-of-arabia/
No, you can buy a complete training camp in your own country, Kuwait needs to stop spending money in other countries and develop their own nation for future generations.
Sorry, but I don’t understand your comment. Nevertheless, thank you for your time.
Each and every one of these girls deserve our respect for their courage to walk onto the pitch as one of the first generation of female footballers.
Knowing that there’re people out there who contempt you just because of your personal choice for a healthy lifestyle must hurt and is regrettable.
This team didn’t deserve to be humiliated twice. First of by their sports-organization due to an, obvious, serious lack of preparation and secondly by their opponent.
The difference is the first party failed hopelessly, while the second did nothing else then their sporting duty.
Kuwait is a lighthouse in a troubled area. Also in sport it’s trying hard to find the way up, though often inefficient.
On my own behalf I ask the girls/ladies not to give up on their sport. Continue and have believe in what you can achieve by motivation, training and team-work. Talent has to be developed in a professional way and not to be taken for granted. Success comes with blood sweat and tears. Always, – there’re no free tickets…
Glory can’t be bought with money either. Though a minimum level of support must be guaranteed to create the necessary peace and environment to focus.
One day this defeat will be remembered as a wake-up call at a decisive moment in the history that you’re writing now for the sake of your nation. Kuwaiti’s are too proud and too strong not to change the course of it’s own future in sports. Imho.
3 hours a day of training isn’t that ok? How much physical training can they get in a day?
The amount of money supposedly spent is staggering
Football players practice a lot more than 3 hours a day. It’s not just getting exercise. It’s practicing tactics and practicing your skills.
The problem with that is that according to Ryan Giggs, he used to train 2 hours a day back in the 90s with it being upped to 4 hours more recently. That is a professional footballer at one of the best teams in the world. 3 hours a day of actual training for school kids sounds like more than enough to me.
Those professional footballers know how to play football, it is the tactics they get trained in.Ofcourse the physical and mental training too.
Man i wish i was kuwaiti, driving corvettes and camaros while eating pinkberry. what a life!
I have a toyota 🙁
You dont have to be a Kuwaiti to do that
atleast a arab
But seriously, too bad they didn’t practice……..but to not practice and lose without giving your best effort is pretty shameful.
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Which brings another point, who is their coach!?!?!?!
Paris Hilton
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1.2 million? So that means the actual cost of the club was about 400,000…
Nobody can succeed in sports without dedication and discipline. Even Michael Jordan’s coach said that the primary reason for Michael’s success was his hard hard work. Since many in this part of the world are yet to learn the definition of work, this is not surprising.
3 hours of rehearsal? What time did these girls have to wake up? Just how challenging was rehearsal?
Due to the lack of sports in Kwt in general and in schools in particulare and strict religous barriers against woman freedom they tend not to choose the best candidates but the ones that can agree to be part of a team that can travel alone that can have a long work leave ie. for all the wrong reasons! To cut the story short this team has women yes but obviously does not athletes!
Due to the lack of sports in Kwt in general and in schools in particulare and strict religous barriers against woman freedom they tend not to choose the best candidates but the ones that can agree to be part of a team that can travel alone that can have a long work leave ie. for all the wrong reasons! To cut the story short this team has women yes but obviously does not have athletes!
Those are girls?
they are not competing in MISS WORLD contest..
Well honestly and with all due respect, when I first saw this picture I though it was an under 16 male soccer team.
Also, spending that money that was spent wasn’t just for that fail of a soccer team, it was for various other teams such as the olympic team too! My friend went there and he took 2nd place or 3rd in the hammer throw I don’t remember exactly.
I forgot everyone gets all dressed up and does their makeup when they’re gonna be running around on a field for 2 hours
AND WE ALL ARE WAITING SANCTIMONIOUSLY FOR THE REPORT OF THE investigation..I hope we have it published soon .. so that mistakes will not be repeated.
It’s obvies , player #4 is behind this heavy defet. Hitting and flirting and sexualy harassing team mates during training camp !
Their sentence should be making sandwiches forever.
350,000 !
Having money does not mean you can spend anyway you want.
That much money would give a world class training camp !
I wish all of them gets fined for taking such things for granted ! atleast they should get a life lesson.
I really do not think, they had a pride to play for the nation, orelse they wouldnt have spend most of their time in enjoyment, rather than training.
I practised more than 3 hours for my inter-school sport. Well the Coach MADE me to practise !
Same here, In high-school we used to get up at 5 am on weekends and practice for 5 hours.
anyone knows where can i watch the match ?
Why are there so many Kuwaiti bashers in this thread? Always quick to highlight the problems, never offer any solutions.
Always talking shit, if you don’t like it GTFO. You’re only here to earn money which you couldn’t do in your countries because you obviously arent successful.
What did anyone do for Kuwait before we found oil? Nothing. What has Kuwait done for all Arab expats living here? Millions of Kuwaiti dinars in foreign aid and salaries for the masses.
No one gave a shit about us before oil now all of a sudden we are supposed to become philanthropists and emulate Scandinavian governments and standard of living.
Cut the fucking crap people. Mark I know you like Kuwait but for goodness sake try defending us for once, we know we aren’t perfect.
Please people be constructive with your criticism, we are open to solutions.
The Kuwaiti commenters are too busy bashing the looks of the women
no body, no country is perfect but ur words,,,that we not successful in our countries are here, thats wrong
my son is the 5th generation in Kuwait. my cousin of grandfather stepped on Kuwait soil in 1948-50
when Kuwait had oil or not but we were here. they migrated to Kuwait from Iran.
the discussion in this topic was diverted to other debates, where it should have stuck to finding about the defeat in football match in spite of such financial support. what went wrong
kuwait even got Olympic medal lets not forget that.
lets not generalize the problem
GTFO again. Don’t you have anything constructive to say?
Only 3 hours a day lol. Guys 3 hours a day is PLENTY. Its not how long you train for its how effective you train. Obviously this team wasnt doing the right kind of training during their 3 hour sessions so lets forget about the length of training and focus on the lack of coaching. Hopefully this is a wakeup call to both the team and Ministry of education that spending loads of money doesnt buy you jack sh**, its how you spend it.
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Ibn Al-Jazeera was right. We have no business & definitely have no right to judge them. Though it is just saddening to know such wasted resources but it is their money & they can do whatever they want with it even if they burn them, the same way you can do with yours. It is up to the Kuwait authorities now and they will answer to them not to us. In fact, I’d have to disagree with Mark posting their photo here. Let us give them the benefit of the doubt instead of creating a trial by publicity post. But until they are proven guilty, these kids are still innocent and deserved to be respected.
I don’t think anyone is blaming the girls not even the authorities.
How amazing was the other team to put them through that kind of defeat?
Or how bad are these girls at soccer. I think it’s reasonable to assume that at any basic level of soccer skill and basic cognitive ability of strategy would make it impossible to have such a defeat.
It really is impossible to say that they tried and in a culture of soccer even for boys, that these girls had no support to prepare them in any way.
It’s obvious they lost on purpose. They knew they were going to lose and decided to lose like this.
I want to see the video, just to see how fake it must look to lose and essentially watch 30 goals be scored.
I am not being fooled by this. This is might also be politically motivated. Shame on them squandering all that money to prove a point.
My question is, why did they send the girls out and spend all that money in another country? Why didn’t they build a facility here and just pay to bring in some expert coaches (if there are none here – I honestly know very little about the sport)? It just seems to be quite fishy as to the whole situation.
It’s retarded if you ask me. Teaching sports at the school level is very simple. The tricky part would be the psychology of motivating players. However, if someone is representing their country that should be motivation.
Strategy and technique exists in books. You could get another student to act like the coach with the right books and they could do a better job than the Czech republic and their 3 hour program + recreational activities which resulted in a big defeat.
I am going to say the players might have been doing strange things for their recreation. If that is a hint.
This also makes the Czech republic look bad. We should remove out embassy from there if recreational activities in their country with a paid program results in this kind of defeat. I can only imagine what would happen to the average tourist if they did recreational activities there.
You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.
This is the procedure for a training camp:
A sports-organization hires a facility, including football-pitches, a gymn, hotel rooms and often a restaurant at the complex.
The visiting teams are accompanied by their own coaches and team-leaders. Sometimes they fly in their own kitchen staff and cook.
Because these facilities are most cheap in eastern European countries, these are mainly used by countries with a low budget. Another important reason that the more known football countries ask more is because they include matches against local- or national teams. The best way to compare your own team to other, most of the times, stronger teams. An efficient way also to evaluate the own team with regards to its strong- and weak points.
Last year I was asked to make an offer for the National Team (youth). In collaboration with a well-known organization of football-camps in Europe, we made a plan for 3 weeks in Germany.
Because I personally didn’t want to earn money on the project (I considered it as a service for a friend), and the organizers of the event were also prepared to work for a very low rate (they did consider it as an investment for the future, a new customer which they could show their abilities is of course always welcome), we were able to offer a very attractive price. Including 3 friendly matches against teams from professional football-clubs in Germany.
As said, we offered a high quality football-camp for a ‘low-budget’ price.
Though not even a fraction of the amount of money mentioned in this post or the price of an average stay in a hotel in Kuwait, it was still too expensive.
They choosed for 3 weeks in the Czech Republic.
So, before blaming on the girls, the Czech Republic and – more or less – the rest of the world, I suggest you to do your homework properly next time.
You stated the obvious and mentioned something about high quality, and said I need to do homework to study the obvious, to realize that high quality results in a 0-30 loss.
Maybe the problem is what you consider homework is of very low quality.
Like I said a kid could do a better job than this sports camp. But then again it depends on what mind of homework that kid is used to.
Try reading my comment again. But thanks for your reply.
You are turning this into a recitation. Well, point me to the verse that says we can use draconian laws to those who fail at offering a high quality result for their high quality program.
Amen
A couple of them er….resemble guys more. Weird picture!
I can honestly say that I am not surprised by either the story or the comments. Poor performance followed by the inevitable recriminations are one of the few growth industries here.
alright people, many of you need to calm their tits down.
Kindly remove the photo and issue an apology for your misleading article.
The women in this picture (and I am among them, number ten) are members of the National Women’s Football of Team of Kuwait. This picture was taken in the ONLY official game that the team played: a qualifying friendly against Qatar in May 2012.
Your article, on the other hand, discusses the losses that the Women’s Futsal Under 17 Team sustained. They are neither outdoor players, nor do they comprise of the main team.
More on the subject: the women who played the canonical Palestine match (and the UAE match to a lesser degree) are also not the official Women’s Football team.
Please contact me for further information.
does anyone have any idea about where the train?