The Legendary Career and Legacy of Ali Ziwar Najm: Remembering the ‘Sheikh of the Commentators’

2023-10-08 04:30:00

Written by Lubna Abdullah Sunday, October 8, 2023 07:30 AM

Today, Sunday, marks the anniversary of Ali Ziwar Najm’s passing Al-Ahly The former, who was born on the twenty-second of March 1922, was nicknamed “Sheikh of the Commentators,” and he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in military sciences in 1946.

Ziwar was a player in Al-Ahly during the 1940s and retired in 1949. He went to arbitration, then headed to the administrative field and worked as director of football in Al-Ahly during the period from 1958 to 1966.

Ziwar’s career began with sports commentary in 1959, where he practiced the profession until recent years, during which his health condition deteriorated, and he retired during the nineties.

Ali Ziwar is one of the stars of the good old days. He entered the field of commentary in the early sixties, and his real fame began at the beginning of the seventies. He had many famous phrases and phrases, the most famous of which are “I am not adapted to this match,” “We are still familiar with languages,” and “Eh.” This sweetness,” “Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.”

The great commentator, Ali Ziwar, who was famous for his phrase, “What is this food?” He had a funny incident while commenting on one of the matches that the audience did not forget. Ziwar said, “One time, he was commenting on a women’s match. He said, ‘This boy is going to be played by Sarah, and Sarah, by the way, has two subjects in high school. In general, God willing, may God make her successful and enter college.”

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The sheikh of the commentators on Ziwar was commenting on the matches of the World Cup in Spain and he pronounced the name of the famous Brazilian player Falcao with the C instead of the CAF “falcao”. At that time, Najib Al-Mestakawi, the famous sports critic, criticized Ziwar for the “mispronunciation” of the Brazilian star’s name, but the commentator insisted on his position because “ He is a master of languages ​​and knows very well how to pronounce the names of the most famous players.

Sports commentator Muhammad Ali Ziwar died on October 8, 2005, at the age of 83.

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