Bossaball on Jeddah Summer Festival 2008 - Saudi Arabia

Most bossaball activities in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for the month of July are linked to the Jeddah Summer Festival 2008.

Training sessions :

July 5 - 8 : Bossaball trainers and players from Europe and Brazil conduct local players’ training sessions.

Press Conference : Official Bossaball Launch :

July 7 : Press conference for the official introduction of bossaball in Saudi Arabia for local and national press, radio and television.

Bossaball demonstrations and matches :

July 9 : Grand Opening : The series of daily events starts on July 9 with the attendance of dignitaries from local and governmental political and sports organizations.
July 9 - 15 : Bossaball matches and 2 daily bossaball shows by local and international demo players during the whole period of the festival.

All events take place in Jeddah’s most prestigious sports facilility KFCC (King Fahad Coastal City Jeddah).

This is the local programming info poster with more information about the events, dates, and sponsors.

Bossaball in Al-Shallal Theme Park - Jeddah - Saudi Arabia

Between July 15 and July 21 Bossaball is installed as an attraction in the Al-Shallal Theme Park in the Jeddah Corniche, along the Red Sea.

Al-Shallal is the most popular amusement park of Saudi Arabia, famous for having the largest double looped roller coaster on the Asian continent.

The park belongs to the Fakeeh Tourist Group, part of the Fakieh Group Imperium (”Fakieh Poultry Farms”), who directs all the profits to charity organizations.

Newspapers and magazines articles (in Arabic) :

TV and Radio reports on following channels :

AL ARABIYA TV, ARAB RADIO & TELEVISION NETWORK, MIDDLE EAST BROADCASTING CENTER , ROTANA TV

Organization by our local partner : Fian Trading Inc.

This is a video clip with footage shot at the Bossaball Festival Slovenia on June 25.

Red Bull sponsored the event.
On the following images you can see that the samba referee scoreboard and dj booth was installed on the legendary “Red Bull Defender” all purpose vehicle.

More pictures soon.

The romantic coast town Ankaran hosts the first Bossaball Festival in Slovenia on June 25.

for more info : www.bossaball.si

Promo video :

We received some pictures of last weekend’s bossaball event on the VERÃO CAIXA FÃ festival in Lisbon, Portugal.

You can find more pictures of this event under the “puente de 25 avril” on pictures.bossaball.net/portugal-2008.

The following press article about bossaball and the festival is from Time Out Magazine Portugal (in Portugese) :