PepsiCo-Jordan sponsors Prince Ali Centers Trophy Ceremony

Press release

Published January 6th, 2015 - 11:54 GMT

Al Bawaba

As part of its longstanding partnership with the Jordan Football Association (JFA), PepsiCo-Jordan announced its sponsorship of the Prince Ali Centers’ Trophy Ceremony. Held at the Polo Stadium in Al Hussein Youth City, the Ceremony was attended by JFA Board Member Mansour Obeidallah and PepsiCo-Jordan Public Relations Manager Mohammad Arabiyat, who was present on behalf of the Company’s General Manager Eng. Nidal Hamam.

The Trophy Ceremony featured the final matches between the 2002/2003 champions of the Northern, Southern and Middle Regions for the ‘PepsiCo Football League for the Gifted’. During the Ceremony, Irbid Center was crowned as winner of the Northern Region; Madaba Center as winner of the Southern Region; and Al-Rsaifeh Center as winner of the Middle Region. In addition, PepsiCo-Jordan handed out 150 gifts in recognition of the players’ noteworthy performance and the coaches’ dedicated efforts with regards to training the athletes and developing their abilities.

“I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the teams on their well deserved wins, and urge them to keep up the pace so as to continue to achieve future successes. We are very proud of our longstanding partnership with the JFA, which has yielded numerous accomplishments and motivated talented football players to develop their athletic skills, subsequently advancing Jordan’s dynamic football scene,” commented Eng. Hamam.

In turn, Obeidallah thanked PepsiCo-Jordan for its continuous support to the Prince Ali Centers throughout the years, which has been key in enabling the JFA to expand its outreach. He went on to laud the players’ commendable performance, and stated, “Our mutual partnership serves as a model example of what can be done to develop the sport of football and to encourage young talented athletes to keep up the hard work in order to positively represent Jordan within the international sporting arena.”

PepsiCo-Jordan has been sponsoring the PepsiCo Football League for the Gifted - which is held under the patronage of H.R.H. Prince Ali bin Al Hussein - since 2009, as part of its ongoing support to the Prince Ali Centers’ activities and training.

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