Officials during a press conference to announce the exhibition at Aspire Dome.
Doha: The Qatar Olympic & Sports Museum and the National Football Museum (Manchester, UK) are working in partnership to organise the greatest international exhibition of football: We Speak Football.
The exhibition will be an immersive, audio-visual rich and interactive experience celebrating players, coaches and fans.
Visitors will travel back to the origin of the game, relive the history of the World Cup, meet stars and fans, and trace emotions and the diversity which make this sport the beautiful game we all know.
The audience will be further engaged in a section dedicated to the local football cultures.
Visitors can test their football skills, take a penalty, or lead their team to become the champion in the latest video games.
An additional attraction will be a series of activities, including talks on socio-cultural aspects of the game and events engaging the local community in actively playing football.
The exhibition will travel around the globe for the next nine years, with its first stop in Brazil in 2014 and its final show in Doha in 2022.
“Football is the most popular global sport and it makes sense to stage We Speak Football in cooperation with an international partner. We are very pleased to have this partnership with the National Football Museum to realise an exhibition of such a scale”, says Dr Christian Wacker, Director of the Qatar Olympic & Sports Museum.
The concept of the exhibition was developed by the two institutions and reflects football as a phenomenon in which the diversity of the international football community finds a common ground.
Kevin Moore, Director of the National Football Museum, said: “Football unites billions of people across the globe: all ages, nationalities and cultures. Football is more than just a sport. It is an important part of global culture, bringing the world together. People who don’t share a common spoken language can share the unspoken language of football. We all speak football. We are delighted to be working with the Qatar Olympic & Sports Museum on this fantastic global exhibition.”
The Peninsula
