Dubai Sports World kicks off with a parade of academies

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00:00Dubai Sports World, the region's largest indoor summer sports arena, hosted a parade on Sunday

00:14featuring academies and sporting companies to mark the official opening of the action-packed

00:18eighth edition of the summer sporting event.

00:22Running until September 8 at the Dubai World Trade Center, Dubai Sports World will feature

00:2618 sports and activities and 10 professional academies over the 16-weeks duration.

00:31We are hosting a number of activities and corporate tournaments and a lot of government

00:39tournaments throughout the period of sports world.

00:41Multiple global and regional academies including La Liga Academy, Prestige Star Sport Academy,

00:46IFA Football Academy, Juventus Academy Dubai, Tennis 360, Professional Sports Academy, Deepika's

00:53Badminton Academy, G-Force Academy, and Just Play are running training and development

00:57programs for aspiring players this year.

01:00Basketball around the world is the second sport, so only here in Dubai never was the

01:04second sport.

01:05But now it's slowly picking up and I think that now it's much more interesting than before

01:11for basketball.

01:12You can see this with the kids, you can see this with the schools.

01:15I played with my friends but then like about 3-4 years ago, again my coach Dan came to

01:24our school to like train like just our kids.

01:29Then I got to know him much better and I eventually started training like serious basketball with

01:38him.

01:39New to Dubai Sports World, visitors can hone their gymnastics skills, play street basketball,

01:43enjoy virtual golf, and battle park shooting games.

01:47The 25,000 square meters indoor air-conditioned venue includes three pro-standard pitchers

01:52for a five-a-side football and rugby, three pro-standard pitchers for seven-a-side football

01:56and rugby, eight basketball courts, three street basketball courts, 12 badminton courts,

02:01three tennis courts, two volleyball courts, cycling and fitness studios, a cricket pitch,

02:05a wrestling ring, a paddle court, a table tennis zone, a 400-meter running track, and

02:09a state-of-the-art gym.

02:11Irish Eden Belyaza for Golf News.

02:13IRISH EDEN BELYAZA FOR GOLF NEWS

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