10.22 AM Sunday, 14 December 2025
  • City Fajr Shuruq Duhr Asr Magrib Isha
  • Dubai 04:20 05:42 12:28 15:53 19:08 20:30
14 December 2025

Capello heads panel at Dubai Sports Conference

Fabio Capello at last year's Dubai Sports Conference. (FILE)

Published
By Staff

England manager Fabio Capello will be among some of the top sports personalities who have confirmed for the Dubai Sports Council-organised 6th Dubai International Sports Conference to be held on December 28-29.
 
Titled 'Football Companies...Current and Future Trends', the sixth edition of this sports forum will see Capello lead an array of sports luminaries in discussing various ways and means to make successful entities of football clubs.
 
The annual conference is held under the patronage of Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of DSC.

Others who have already confirmed their presence for the two-day conference are FC Barcelona President Sandro Rosell, FC Porto Chairman Pinto da Costa, Arsenal FC's Chief Commercial Officer Tom Fox, ex-Chelsea CEO Peter Kenyon, AS Roma's General Manager Franco Baldini and the famed players' agent Giovanni Branchini, who is also Vice-President of the European Players' Union.
 
The Dubai Sports Council is currently working at a frenzied pace to ensure the success of this annual conference that is meant to be a guiding light to benefit UAE clubs in hastening the process of professionalism.
 
The process was launched earlier this year with Mattar Al Tayer, Deputy Chairman, DSC issuing a resolution to form the Organising Committee for the Conference headed by Mohammed Al Kamali, Member, DSC Executive Office and Chairman of Professionalism and Development Committee with Khalid Ali Bin Zayed, the Head of Special Sports Committee, as the Deputy Chairman of the Committee and Dr. Aisha Bu Sumait as the Conference Director.
 
The organising committee has been meeting continuously for the past few weeks in an attempt to ensure the success of this prestigious event.