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- Football Legends Pele and Maradona Confirmed to Attend Major Sporting
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ASPIRE, a new Academy for Sports Excellence in Doha, Qatar, is to host a
major event in November designed to celebrate sporting achievement and mark
the opening of its sports dome, which will be the largest indoor sports dome
in the world .

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CHICAGO, THQ Supercross is riding high on the
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across the country and revved its way to the top of the TicketsNow
Entertainment Index for from
opening day of the World Champion Chicago White Sox to the highly anticipated
return of The Who.

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flooring company which provides the marketplace with comprehensive indoor
sports flooring and outdoor sports surfacing solutions for residential,
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About ASPIRE
ASPIRE, the Academy for Sports Excellence, is a world-class organization
that aims to identify, educate and train world-class athletes to compete in
professional sports at the highest levels.

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look of a single sport playing surface.
"The Asian Football Confederation is proud to welcome Sport Court
International as the official flooring provider for the AFC Futsal
Championships from 2005-2007," stated AFC President Mohamed bin Hammam. Thomas Flock, director general of ASPIRE, said: "It will be a
privilege to have the two most famous names in world soccer history attend
the inaugural 'Spread Your Wings' event.
"Through the academy we want to ensure that our student athletes have
every opportunity to become champions and the presence of two senior
statesmen of sport will provide them with the inspiration to succeed.
ASPIRE's new sports dome has been specifically engineered for excellence,
offering state-of-the-art sports science labs and fitness halls under its
sloping roof. Facilities offered within the Dome include a full-sized
artificial grass football field and a five-a-side pitch, a 200m athletics
track, an Olympic-size swimming pool and diving pool, a gymnastics hall, a
sports games hall, 13 table-tennis courts, three contact sports mats, eight
fencing strips and two squash courts.

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futsal surface.
"Together with Sport Court International, Asian Futsal will reach new
heights in performance.421."
The Dome is a landmark development for Qatar and the wider region, and
will provide ASPIRE with unparalleled facilities for training and developing
student athletes, as well as offering a host venue for major sporting events
like the Doha Asian Games in 2006.
Standing at a staggering 290,000 square -meters, it is a landmark
development for Qatar and the wider region, and will provide unmatched
facilities for training and developing student athletes, as well as offering
a venue for major sporting events like the Doha Asian Games in 2006.

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Football legends Pele and Diego Maradona will be coming together to take
part in the sporting event, alongside a broad range of internationally-famous
sporting legends and local dignitaries .
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today announced it has signed a three-year association with the Asian Football
Confederation, the governing body for soccer in Asia and the largest of FIFA's
six regional confederations ."
Futsal - the smaller, quicker, 5-on-5 version of indoor soccer - requires
a unique surface that maximizes the players' speed, but doesn't compromise
their health. For more information
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World Class Sports Science Conference and a football tournament featuring
Europe's best youth teams. ASPIRE TODAY,
INSPIRE TOMORROW

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Bureau, and a founding member of the NATB, which promotes the highest level of
ethics in the secondary ticketing marketplace. Under this agreement, Sport Court has exclusive
sponsorship rights and becomes the official flooring of the annual AFC Futsal
Championship.
The 'Spread Your Wings' event will run from November 17 - November 19,
2005, at the ASPIRE Academy for Sports Excellence, Qatar. ASPIRE provides exceptional
facilities, including full educational and recreational facilities, advanced
dormitories, an amphitheatre, lecture halls, seven outdoor football training
fields, and state-of-the-art weight rooms and physiotherapy.

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Following are the category leaders for January:

Top January Events Overall
1 Wicked 6 Houston Rodeo
2 THQ Supercross 7 New York Yankees
3 Billy Joel 8 Boston Red Sox
4 Monty Python Spamalot 9 The Odd Couple
5 Denver Broncos 10 Coldplay

Top January Sports Ticket Sales
1 THQ Supercross
2 Denver Broncos
3 New York Yankees
4 Boston Red Sox
5 Seattle Seahawks

Top January Concert Ticket Sales
1 Billy Joel
2 Houston Rodeo
3 Coldplay
4 Bon Jovi
5 Aerosmith

Top January Theater Ticket Sales
1 Wicked
2 Monty Python Spamalot
3 The Odd Couple
4 The Lion King
5 Phantom of the Opera

About the TicketsNow Entertainment Index
The TicketsNow Entertainment Index tracks proprietary secondary ticket
sales on a monthly basis to provide a snapshot of entertainment trends for
sports, music, and theater events nationwide . More than 90% of all professional
ticket agencies that list, buy, and sell secondary event tickets online
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"We are very excited to partner with the Asian Football Confederation in
one of the fastest growing sports in the world," said Charlie Graves, CEO of
Connor Sport Court International. "The speed and maneuverability needed for
futsal make it a perfect match for our high performance sports floors."
Featuring two Sport Court championship futsal floors, the 2005 AFC Futsal
Championship will be held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam beginning May 22 and
will include the top 24 national teams throughout Asia.
The meeting in Qatar this November will be the first time the two heroes
have shared a stage outside of South America and is their first joint visit
to the Middle East ever.
The two stars will take part in a public debate "Fair losers - ugly
winners ," which will be the first public event of the three-day festival of
sport, hosted by ASPIRE, called "Spread your Wings". Pele and Diego Maradona won the
greatest prize in their sport and they continue to inspire generations
throughout the world today. The Academy is
distinguished by a philosophy which aims to develop the whole student,
providing them with full academic and sports development so that they have
the widest possible range of opportunities in adult life.