Syria’s coach Majd Saqer – We are fighting against our difficulties and work hard in the country

The Syrian Boxing Federation always send boxers to the main Asian and worldwide events in spite of the serious crisis which is affecting the country since 2011. Their squad achieved four quota places to the Hamburg 2017 AIBA World Boxing Championships and currently their talents are competing in the ASBC Asian Confederation Youth Boxing Championships.
Syria’s coach Mr. Majd Saqer answered our questions and he shared his thoughts about his country’s boxing life, Asia’s improvement, ASBC Asian Confederation Youth Boxing Championships and the daily difficulties in Syria.
“First of all I would like to underline our delegation is very satisfied with the organization and the environment in the ASBC Asian Confederation Youth Boxing Championships in Bangkok, Thailand.
I found a fast development in Asian boxing and this improvement has been clearly shown in the last Olympic Games in Rio where the continent’s boxers achieved many medals. Asia’s boxing life is totally organized but we have got a lot of areas where we have to improve our current skills as education of the R&Js, coaches, etc.
The war was affected all of our life but we decided to face against it, and we are thinking about good future in Syria. President of the Syrian Boxing Federation Mr. Issa Al-Nassar are working on a different way of training and these new aspects delivered for us great results in the ASBC Asian Confederation Boxing Championships in Tashkent and also in the Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku. Our concepts and future plans are to build up new generation of champions in Syria.
Trainings in Syria are always difficult nowadays but we are trying to come over them. The main difficulties are the absence of trainings with other Asian countries in camps and the oldness of the boxing equipments. We have lack of money in boxing and hard to get visas to several countries to participate in the international events. Almost all of the coaches in Syria are national levels because the Coach Courses have been holding in foreign countries.
In spite of the crisis we are still going to train every day twice to keep the level and open the national gyms in Syria. Hopefully the international boxing community will be realizing our efforts and main issues and we can expect some support from them in the future in connection of the courses, camps, and equipments.
Currently we have got 2000 boxers in the country altogether and we can host all of our National Championships in each groups every year. Our next national event will be held for our best junior boxers. We will be holding an international tournament also in Damascus in July. Currently we have got women boxing in many cities alongside Syria and until the end of the year we can host our national event for the female talents,” said Syria’s experienced coach Mr. Majd Saqer.