{"id":10225,"date":"2018-12-10T17:22:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T13:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=10225"},"modified":"2018-12-10T17:22:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T13:22:29","slug":"noon-and-al-ittihad-score-partnership-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/noon-and-al-ittihad-score-partnership-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Noon And Al Ittihad Score Partnership Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the region\u2019s favourite pastimes, football and shopping, meet in a major partnership deal between Al Ittihad Club Saudi Arabia and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noon.com\">noon<\/a> that will see the digital market place become the main sponsor of the champion football club.<\/p>\n<p>As the digital home team of the Middle East, noon\u2019s partnership with Al Ittihad, one of KSA\u2019s oldest football clubs, further strengthens to brand\u2019s foundations in the region it was born.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership was sealed at a signing ceremony attended by Dr. Yasser Nassif, Al Ittihad CEO, Abdullah Kaboha, member of Al Ittihad board of directors, Mohamed Alabbar, noon founder, and Khalid Balghunaim, noon Director of KSA Operations.<\/p>\n<p>Alabbar said: &#8220;Sponsoring Al Ittihad, a team with a long history of great achievements, is an honour for us. We\u2019re also excited to connect with Al Ittihad\u2019s dedicated fan base.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Loay Nazer, Al Ittihad President, said: \u201cI would like to thank noon for their trust and dedication to Al Ittihad, one of the most beloved football clubs with a history of many formidable achievements that have positioned it as a leading football club in Saudi Arabian, the Middle East and Asia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>noon\u2019s core brand value lies in nurturing local talent, growth and innovation, which can be achieved through the support to Al Ittihad, which also shares noon\u2019s trademark yellow and black colours.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership will further support the growth of football in Saudi Arabia and promote the club across the country, and the region. With football being the most popular sport in the Kingdom, support from noon, a homegrown brand, is key to nurturing the local sports scene and supporting clubs reach their targets as well as their players\u2019 ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1927, Al Ittihad is one of the oldest football clubs in Saudi Arabia. It has won eight Saudi League titles to date, and holds 48 official championship wins, three of which are Asian championship titles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10227\" src=\"http:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/V1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"202\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10226\" src=\"http:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/V.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"144\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the region\u2019s favourite pastimes, football and shopping, meet in a major partnership deal between Al Ittihad Club Saudi Arabia and noon that will see the digital market place become the main sponsor of the champion football club. As the digital home team of the Middle East, noon\u2019s partnership with Al Ittihad, one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10228,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10225\/revisions\/10228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}