The Talent Discovery Program will be launched on Friday

2023-02-16
22:55:01

Tomorrow, Friday, the Talent Discovery Program will be launched by the Saudi Arabian Football Federation, represented by the technical department, which aims to discover football talents in schools and provide them with the opportunity to join sports clubs and regional training centers.

The festival comes within the efforts of the SAFF to achieve the strategic goals of transforming Saudi football, which stands on 7 pillars, the most prominent of which is the path of talent development, as one of the goals of the strategy is to organize more than 50 competitions for different youth groups by 2025, which contributes to making a national team that will be among the top 20 national teams by 2034.

The festival is scheduled to be held in 16 cities: Jazan, Najran, Hafar Al-Batin, Arar, Abha, Al-Baha, Hail, Taif, Tabuk, Al-Jawf, Dammam, Jeddah, Al-Ahsa, Medina, Riyadh and Unaizah.

Unaizah will open the festival tomorrow, Friday, as the nominated participants will be received by the academies in Qassim, as they will undergo performance auditions, on the basis of which talents will be evaluated according to criteria set by the technical administration.

It is noteworthy that the technical department of the Saudi Arabian Football Federation determined the ages of the participants for players from 6 to 9 years, and the ages of the participants for female players from 9 to 12 years.