| Aspire Academy for Sports Excellence | |
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| Full name | ASPIRE Academy for Sports Excellence |
| Location | Doha, Qatar |
| Opened | 2005 |
| Capacity | 15,000 (6,000) (Hall 1) (4,100) (Hall 2) |
| Tenants | |
| Asian Games (Asian Olympics) (2006) World Indoor Championships (Indoor Athletics) (2010) |
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Since established in 2004, Aspire Academy for Sports Excellence is committed to strengthening the sporting culture in Qatar, and to ensuring that various stakeholders understand the potential sports offer as a means to achieve their own objectives.
Our years of experience in the field is fuelling and energizing Qatari government agencies, sports federations, individual clubs and other partners’ efforts to synthesize and integrate knowledge at local, regional and global levels.
Aspire Academy for Sports Excellence is providing leadership in sports, sports science, academics and community-centric programs that recognize the significance of sports in improving the quality of lives of people in Qatar and the region.
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The Aspire Academy for Sports Excellence was established by an Emiri Decree, No. 16 of 2004, as an independent government-funded agency that reported directly to HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani through HH the Heir Apparent Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani.
Later, an Emiri Decree – No.1 of 2008 – incorporated the Aspire Academy as a strategic business unit (SBU) into the new, parent organization of Aspire Zone Foundation. Despite the switch from an independent government body to an SBU, the original purpose and objectives of the Aspire Academy remain the same.
On 17 November, 2005, HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani led a glittering opening ceremony of the Aspire Dome, essentially signaling the global announcement of Aspire Academy as an international institute of high standing.
ASPIRE's Talent Identification (TID) Program is a nationwide initiative to propel the state of Qatar into the international sporting arena. Working in close coordination with the Qatar National Olympic Committee, and the Supreme Education Council (SEC), our primary aim is to find students within Qatar schools, who have exceptional athletic talent and offer them a student-athlete scholarship within ASPIRE.
The Aspire Academy is dedicated to producing student-athletes who graduate with the technical, tactical, physical and mental foundation to become internationally successful athletes. We define successful athletes as sportspersons who go on to become high achievers of the junior and senior national teams or professional sports teams.
Years of rigorous training at Aspire Academy results in athletes being resourceful and fully able to demonstrate the requisite knowledge and independence to manage their sporting and academic as well as vocational careers towards achieving their maximum potential.
Aspire Football Dream is a unique and fascinating humanitarian football project currently existent in 15 developing countries on three continents, and aimed at identifying the future talents of world football.
Prepared and planned in 2005/2006 and launched on the ground in 2007, the ASPIRE Football Dreams project has already tested over two million young footballers from Asia, Latin America and Africa, as part of the largest-ever talent search within the sport.
Aspire cooperates closely with the national football associations of the youngsters involved.
The project relies on a team of professional coaches and scouts, as well as thousands of volunteers.
The top players from each country travel to Qatar and are hosted at ASPIRE Academy, where they receive top-level training from Academy coaches and play games each week against other teams. World famous football stars visit and share their advice and experiences, and many of the young aspirants receive scholarships to Aspire Academy or the only ASPIRE branch in Senegal, as the involved National Football Associations were asking for more support for the screened and identified talents.
Aspire Academy for Sports Excellence is proud of all its athlete-students who won titles and medals to add to the glory of this world-class sports academy. Below is only a few of the student-athletes who made history while being mentored by our coaches.
The Sports Science department supports the Table Tennis program through a Service Team. The coordinator of this team is Charalampos Fountoulakis (Sport Psychology) who ensures the following sport science services support the Table Tennis program:
Aspire Academy for Sports Excellence has a vested interest in disseminating education of world-class quality. As an organization deeply involved in the process of social advancement of entire communities, it is our foremost priority to offer education that not only equips our students with the skills and substantive knowledge to define and pursue their own goals, but also fulfills their social obligation as full-fledged citizens and complete sportspersons.
Aspire Academy for Sports Excellence has adopted a comprehensive concept of curriculum that does not relies solely on books and courses but also on a set of principles and standards of realism.
All our subjects are carefully selected to reflect our vision of preparing complete sportspersons that are well-disciplined, competitive and honest. Our courses and subjects feature studies of:
Our social affairs specialist assists the school in providing the suitable scholastic atmosphere for the students to benefit from educational care and services.
Aspire Academy teachers travel with student-athletes on their camps and give revision lessons to those who have to sit for the second session exams.
Aspire Academy students regularly go on field trips as well as service-learning trips. Students learn about the real world, apply classroom knowledge learnt, as well as gain awareness of life beyond Aspire. Our field trips are also a platform for the larger community to know about Aspire Academy and its students.
Overnight boarding at the Aspire Academy Dormitory provides an opportunity for student-athletes the time for adequate recovery and rest from rigorous training as well as additional learning opportunities and team building.
Our Career and University Networking Section’s objective is to work in assisting the student-athletes by identifying their potential career opportunities. In addition, it supports each student in order to qualify for joining a university, while promoting continuous sports development. Moreover, the Career and University Networking Section serves as a resource for the greater Qatar sporting community in the area of advancing student-athletes’ career and higher education opportunities.
ASPIRE ACTIVE is our life-changing community engagement initiative geared at enhancing the quality of lives of people it serves. ASPIRE ACTIVE fosters culturally sensitive lifelong recreational fitness activity and healthy lifestyle choices for the entire family to effectively address contemporary sedentary lifestyle consequences.
Guided by the Qatar National Vision 2030 that calls for development of a healthy and competitive human capital, ASPIRE ACTIVE focuses on preventative adult and teen fitness and health related exercise programming. The broad variety of scientifically-designed classes and courses on offer cater for beginner to advanced users. Detailed attention to instructor knowledge, customer care and best practice is the focus of ASPIRE ACTIVE’s program delivery.
ASPIRE ACTIVE’ s mission is also in line with that of the Aspire Academy for Sports Excellence, which calls “to ensure an active and healthy lifestyle for the society throughout Qatar by engaging the local community through a variety of classes and fitness opportunities”.
In addition to a range of engaging and rewarding adult fitness modules, an intimate set of mother, children and infant classes at ASPIRE ACTIVE provide holistic skill-development of movement crucial to sport specific skill mastery.
Aspire Academy for Sports Excellence students utilize the Aspire Dome, which is credited as the world’s largest indoor multipurpose dome. The Aspire Dome offers topnotch facilities for a host of sporting events - both local and international.
There are a total of seven outdoor football pitches onsite. As impressive as they are, all the pitches regularly undergo maintenance and are well-kept along with other associated infrastructure.
The Sports Science facilities at Aspire Academy befit the sheer quality of first-rate applied sports science management and support that take place at the institution all year long.
A complete range of architecturally-acclaimed educational facility is used to deliver sports-focused instruction and curricula and galvanize the future of our student-athletes.
| Preceded by Luis Puig Palace Valencia |
IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics Venue 2010 |
Succeeded by Ataköy Athletics Arena Istanbul |
| Preceded by Sajik Baseball Stadium Busan |
Asian Games Venue 2006 |
Succeeded by Guangzhou Gymnasium Guangzhou |