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18/09/2009
The Dr. Sulaiman Al-Fahim has confirmed his arrival to Valencia in the following hours for assisting to the historical match which is going to confront 25 years later Karpov and Kasparov and which starts next Monday with the cultural and historic acts organized by the association ‘Valencia, cuna del ajedrez moderno’.
President of the chess federation of the United Arab Emirates and enthusiast of the two world’s sports legends of chess, Al-Fahim has shown a special interest, paralyzing his agenda for the occasion and coming to Valencia for at least four days with the objective of being together with his childhood idols and realizing several managements he has to do in Spain.
Al-Fahim, who is going to stay at a luxury hotel in the city, will follow the games from a privileged place. The new of his arrival has already been diffused in Abu Dhabi, where he controls several media.
The presence in Valencia of Al-Fahim, owner of the English Portsmouth, will attract people by a sense of morbid fascination because he made a substantial offer for signing up David Villa when he was the visible leader of Manchester City. In fact, according to his surroundings, Al-Fahim is still interested in him because of his plans of turning Portosmouth into a world’s example. For this, he is also after Diego Armando Maradona as the sports director.
However, the 31-year old is not only a football lover, but also a chess lover. Chess is a sport which he practices usually. In fact, he was the fifth best World player in children’s category and rumours say that he transported the strategy he learned with the pieces to the financial holding he handles, a group of enterprises with estate character, whose funds are calculated to be around more than 15thousand million Euros.
According to the ‘Arabian Business Magazine’ ranking, he is the fourth most important Arab of the World and the value of its fortune is estimated to be ten times higher than the one of Russian Roman Abramovich, who he has overshadowed in the World’s football. Between his recent purchases are Manchester City and Portsmoth, the 5% of the motor Ferrari and the symbolic Chrisler building in New York. Moreover, he is the presenter of an in the very successful reality show, ‘The Hydra Executives’, a kind of ‘Big Brother’ for executives.
The association ‘Valencia, Cuna del ajedrez moderno’ thanks enormously the interest Dr. Al-Fahim has shown in this project and in supporting this event for the history.
