The Gulf Cooperation Council unearthed a shocking statistic last year when stating in its annual report that 44% of Qatar’s adult males and 57% of its adult females are overweight or obese.

This report begs the question:

What do we need to do right now that would bring down this shocking statistic in 10-15 years’ time?

Some might say it is too late to bring down obesity in Qatar’s adult population.

Maybe our focus has to switch from the adults of today to the adults of tomorrow. Well the obvious answer is what are we doing with Qatar’s child population to improve health and exercise...

It seems, very little is being done: it is reported around 28% of children in Qatar are in fact severely obese.

Qatar has culture of food-centric social gatherings.This tied with lack of infrastructure for exercise focused venues and the obvious issue of over reliance of cars has created a situation where we indirectly encourage obesity.

Maybe the solution is to improve exercise in young children through play and games?If we can make exercise fun for children at a young age then we build the habit of an exercise based lifestyle into children at the age of 4/5.

Maybe the way to tackle obesity in adults is to focus our effort at Qatar’s future generations. We must improve awareness of the tightrope Qatar is currently walking. If we ignore these warnings, we risk the health of the nation; not just now but for the next 20-30 years.

Where does Future International Football Academy come into all of this I hear you ask?

Good question:

Well our aim is to create a fun loving environment where exercise can take place through football and fitness sessions.

Our classes are targeted at children as young as 2 onwards, these classes are based on storytelling and imagination. We aim to make a child fall in love with exercise at a young age so it becomes second nature to them for the rest of their lives. Our football classes at this age are based on the tales of Dino our very own dinosaur!

Future Footballs focus on story telling has had drastic results. The children that started with us at 2 are still training with us at 5! Not only are they excited about exercise but they are also very talented footballers.

So here at Future football we are tackling obesity one child at a time.:

We are hoping to lay the foundations now for a fitter, healthier and happier Qatar for many years to come!

Today we have focused on our children aged 2-5, however throughout these posts we plan to tell you about our whole company and every age we coach from 2-16

If you are interested in us here at future football and would like you child to start coming to our classes, please fill out the link below:

https://futurefootball.wufoo.com/forms/sg55tk70sg8g4o/