Football Commentary Training Program

If you love football, enjoy commentating, and want to get the chance to commentate at a big and life-time event like the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™, then this is a great opportunity for you!

After the genuine success of the first version of our Football Commentary Training Program, Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) Translation and Interpreting Institute (TII), in partnership with the Centre for Access to Football in Europe (CAFE), will be hosting a second version of the football commentary training program to provide an opportunity for selected candidates to deliver the service at the upcoming World Cup.

The sessions, delivered in English and translated into Arabic, will prepare participants from both genders to be commentators in Arabic or in English (prior experience is not necessary).

This intensive training program will be held at TII premises, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, in Doha. Training will continue until the end of October 2022, ahead of the World Cup, kicking off in November 2022.

Training will be delivered to small groups, between 3:50 pm – 7:00 pm from Sunday to Thursday, and specific training sessions will be held on Saturdays (time to be arranged with participants).

Applicants must submit a 60-second audio recording of themselves commentating over a football game of their choice, in either Arabic or English. Candidates will be admitted to the training on the basis of their overall aptitude for commentating. Applications will not be judged on the quality of the audio recording, i.e. no professional recording is required.

Accepted trainees will be organized into small groups and expected to attend face-to-face intensive training. This intensive part of the training will be followed by practical assignments and short face-to-face assessment sessions.   

Trainees will progress through three assessment phases to successful completion (each assessment will take around 30 minutes), thus gaining access to the possibility of being selected to take part in an opportunity to deliver audio descriptive commentaries at the upcoming World Cup. Participants will receive an appreciation payment as reward.

The program ensures equal access to training that’s inclusive of persons with disabilities.

Here are the first groups, but we will have more groups with different timings that fit everyone’s schedules in the coming months.

Hurry up and register now!

If you have any questions, please contact us at ttc@hbku.edu.qa  or 44540326

Training will be delivered in English and offered free of charge. Simultaneous translation will be available in Arabic.
 

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