13 Mar. 2017 – While basketball, football, futsal, ski and such sports take the lion’s share of fans in Lebanon, other activities such as Hockey have quickly been forgotten. Ibrahim Bornibyouk, is one of those people who are passionate about hockey and who were there since its beginnings.
When the ice skating arena first opened in 1997 in Zouk, Ibrahim was one of the main activists who worked to make it work up until its closure. That’s when his journey in Lebanon ended. He indeed traveled around the Arab world, helping open arenas in Syria, Qatar, UAE in order to spread the sport’s culture.
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Finally, his last stop was in UAE where he helped build national teams, while consistently traveling to Europe and other destinations in order to get Hockey certificates. Following that, he started leading games in the UAE league, before he was given the chance to be one of the referees in the Asian championship in which UAE ended up 2nd.
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Now, he travels with the team as he’s responsible for logistics and he’s currently in Thailand for the women ASIAN Championship as well as the ASIAN JUNIORS BOYS Championship.
With this sport on the rise in the region, the Lebanese people should seize the opportunity to take part in it and become one of the best. We already have some athletes who are very young and talented, not only in Hockey but in skating in general such as Thea Abou Diwan who is a young Figure skater.
Let’s not wait until it is too late!
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