It is better to come late than never.. We have always heard these words or repeated them to increase the dose of patience while waiting for a result. We may forget the bitterness of absence and the difficulty of achieving dreams, but it was embodied in all its meanings and became a reality following the first torch was launched by hosting our country for the Arabian Gulf Cup, which took place It has been absent from our stadiums for more than forty years, and our fans have been deprived of enjoying meeting the brothers and hearing the whistles of their rulers because of the internal and external policies and the wrong decisions of the regimes in favoring their interests at the expense of their countries and the rights of their people to communicate.
And following those “lean” years, our land, which was afflicted with policy volatility, returned to the fore once once more in sports forums and achieved a miracle added to its renewed history with an editorial that is the least described as “distinguished” from all tournaments hosted by the Arab neighboring countries through the presentation method, the capabilities used, and even the historical explanation of the stages. What Mesopotamia passed through since the first civilizations in “Babylon, Sumer and Akkad” passing through the Islamic civilization and building the city of peace “the rounded Baghdad”, so it was a short minutes that took us on a tour that spans thousands of years and mixed between all civilizations without the restrictions of differences in belief, religion and sect, and reflected the reality of the diversity of the land Mesopotamia, and those in charge of that tournament insisted on providing the best possible way to deliver a message regarding the people of Iraq and its culture to all countries, which many parties tried to “distort” during the years of the past decades, so what happened destroyed a big “lie” that some wanted to attach “unfairly and unfairly” to our cities. He describes it at one time as still unsafe, and at another time he diminishes the generosity of its people in receiving guests, especially from the Arab Gulf countries.
As is the case with many tournaments that witness a great crowd of fans, in addition to the years of absence from organizing such an international football forum, the opening witnessed some “mistakes” that may not be counted in the face of “lapses” recorded by many countries in such forums, despite the availability of many factors in These countries, including the continuation of organizing championships in a manner similar to the yearly, and the availability of tools that we still lack, but they did not affect the “feature” of the opening ceremony, which dazzled far and wide and surpassed even the Qatar World Cup, so that politics appears here once more and from the nearest neighboring country when the Kuwaiti delegation insisted on withdrawing Under the pretext of “chaos” and lack of organization, some media outlets and “unsung media professionals” started practicing the hobby of trolling in murky waters by exaggerating events and diverting them from their course to reduce the size and importance of the opening, before the true position of the Kuwaiti delegation became clear, through the words of their countrymen and through their satellite stations, to show the reason for their demand With fifty rooms from the hotel in which they reside, of which they obtained only five, to prove that the stampede that occurred at the stadium gates by the public and what happened inside the main cabin was nothing but an excuse that the Kuwaiti delegation wanted to exploit to ignite Add the political drama, and it may be “Hasad Aisha” following the dazzling opening.
But.. Going back to what happened in the booth between the protection of some officials and the entry of many fans without cards, it cannot be counted in the category of crimes or major lapses, as it is a failure shared by the public and the political class, which we are accustomed on every occasion to the leadership of some leaders and their protections the scene in bad messages Which confirms their need for a lot of political culture in dealing during such important forums in which the official is facing the “servants of God” directly and without an intermediary, but in the end it did not leave an impact on the “enthusiastic” audience for our return within the list of the host country for international championships competitions or on the artistic painting that It was presented by the organizers and sponsors of the celebration. The achievement cannot be limited to the government of Prime Minister Muhammad Shia’ al-Sudani, nor to the President of the Football Association, Adnan Darjal, or the Governor of Basra, Asaad al-Eidani. Rather, it is a series that began since the establishment of the Sports City during the era of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the Minister of Youth and Sports at the time. Jassim Muhammad Jaafar and the owner of the executing company for the city and the late Abdullah Owais, passing through the first openness to the Gulf countries following the year 2003, which was led by President A. For the former ministers, Haider Al-Abadi, which ended with us having the honor of hosting, which proved to the world that we have the ability to organize more tournaments.
Conclusion: What happened at the opening ceremony of the Gulf Cup in its twenty-fifth edition revealed many of the owners of “poisoned” pens that target the state and its institutions and do not differentiate between opposition to the government and respect for the state and its status. It presented nothing but “failure” during its leadership of the country. On the other hand, there were positive reactions by citizens and public figures in the Gulf countries, including Kuwait, which stood once morest the “distortion” of the achievement that was achieved when it strongly criticized the position of the Kuwaiti delegation and demanded support for Iraq and the championship and contributed to providing many Excuses for the minor mistakes that occurred in an initiative to return the favor for the hospitality they found in Basra within less than a week, and the people of Al-Fayhaa raced to serve them and provide housing and food for free, in contrast to some of our “pessimistic” people who live on his bounties and deny his bounty.. Finally.. the question Which is inevitable.. Will the sporting achievement be the beginning of expected achievements in all fields?..