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ASPIRE awards scholarships to promising international students to attend the Academy in Doha. Students must be from underdeveloped countries and they must be highly talented. These scholarships also provide for student-athletes' trips home and for their parents to visit them in Doha. Almost all of these student-athletes have more sports experience than Qatari or other local athletes. Thus, they play a critical role in exposing ASPIRE student-athletes from Qatar to higher skill levels in everyday training and to the work ethic of skilled performers.
ASPIRE has a world renowned program, ASPIRE Football Dreams, with NIKE and UNICEF as supporting sponsors, that reached 630,000 children in Asia, Africa and Latin America in 2009. The program utilizes over 800 playing fields, involves 6,500 volunteers, provides over 13,000 balls, distributes 105,000 items of equipment and includes coaching instruction. This program is used to identify international football scholarship athletes. In Africa, ASPIRE Football Dreams is the selection process for students invited to attend ASPIRE Senegal, a football training center which also provides an educational program for children. Athletes from eleven African nations attend ASPIRE Senegal |
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and teams from ASPIRE Senegal come to Doha to compete against ASPIRE Academy teams. ASPIRE Senegal student-athletes are also considered for scholarships to ASPIRE Academy in Doha.
ASPIRE Academy is an international elite sports training institute with a multi-national student population and a commitment to awarding student scholarships to talents from underdeveloped nations. The philosophy of the Academy is for every student-athlete to aspire to play for his country’s national team. The Academy does not recruit foreign student-athletes for the purpose of having them play for Qatar national teams. |
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