Mr. Ali Al-Adeeb, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research sponsored a sport festival, with the presence of Prof. Dr. Mohammad Qasim Dos, Acting Minister representing the Minister of Higher Education, the courts of our university embraced the championship of Iraqi universities of sports ” for the academic year 2013-2014. Prof. Dr. Hussein Yousef administrative assistant for the University and Dr. Abdulsattar Ghanem, director of the supervision and evaluation in the ministry, a representative of the Iraqi Olympic Committee and university sport and some officials in the Iraqi sport federations with some famous sport personalities in the field of mass sports like Capt. Ali Kadhem Iraqi football star and the Iraqi league’s former top scorer and of the Arab Gulf Championships of Football, all attended the festival. A large numbe of students from the colleges of Physical Education in the all Iraq’s universities attended the festival as well as many of the satellite channels and the media.
The festival set on with a contribution and participation of all the sport teams of Iraqi universities and the participation of the Department of university sport – a supervision and scientific evaluation and in collaboration with the Iraqi Federation of Sport University, which included a number of sporting events, many and varied Olympic activities, including the activities of judo, gymnastics, handball, volleyball, football, ping-pong, scouting events, breaking sticks, track and field events and many other events. Dr. Qasim dos Undersecretary of the Ministry and Dr. Abdulsattar Ghanem, director of the supervision and evaluation in the ministry distributed souvenirs and gifts to some of the professors,the creators, Olympic champions and the big sport figures. The festival included many displays where the participants displayed their physical abilities and tactical skills in sport events and activities as well as the festival offers Scout activities and race of scouting half tents of Scouts, with the presence of university Scout leaders, also most university championships were opened, and a football match between a team of Baghdad University and a team of Mustansiriya University was starting. A team of our website accompanied the festival and documented the festival with a set of photographs.
