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<div>The Qatar Stars League (QSL) and the Traffic Department of Qatar<br />
on Tuesday signed a 'key' agreement to join hands to increase road<br />
safety awareness among young football fans in the country.<br />
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The QSL will make their stadiums and other infrastructure available to<br />
the traffic department who can use it to spread safety messages and<br />
other related information to football fans in Qatar, officials said on<br />
Tuesday.<br />
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This can be in the form of banners or using the stadium display<br />
screens to promote traffic awareness among the spectators.<br />
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"We are happy to sign this agreement because road safety is a big<br />
responsibility. We are here to serve our youth and our supporters and<br />
we want to make sure that when they come for matches they are happy<br />
and protected," Hani Ballan, QSl CEO, said on Tuesday during the<br />
signing ceremony.<br />
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"The agreement will give them possibility to use all QSL buildings to<br />
inform people about the security on the roads. At QSL we are happy and<br />
grateful to administration for taking this step and we are glad to<br />
help people in Qatar," he added.<br />
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Brigadier Mohamed Saad Al-Kharji, Traffic Director, said he was happy<br />
with this joint initiative while insisting that the responsibility of<br />
keeping the roads in Qatar safe belonged to the people as much as the<br />
police.<br />
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"I am thankful to QSL for supporting us in this movement. The<br />
responsibility of keeping the roads of our country safe does not<br />
belong to the traffic department or any other organisation. We need<br />
the people to get involved too," Al-Kharji said on Tuesday.<br />
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"We will use the QSL events and matches to educate people about the<br />
dangers of the road. The idea is to work together to reduce the<br />
accidents on the road," he added.<br />
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Al-Kharji said that inculcating good traffic sense was something that<br />
should be taught at the family level.<br />
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"Along with QSL, we will send messages to our youth about respecting<br />
traffic rules. But we need families to teach their youngsters these<br />
messages too. Young kids look up to their parents and the teaching<br />
needs to begin there," he said.<br />
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QSL promised all the help they can extend in this regard, including<br />
the use of social media to spread the messages to more fans.<br />
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"This is an important step that our QSL is doing. We will try to help<br />
the traffic department inform the young fans about the danger of the<br />
roads and we will use social media to help them in their work. We will<br />
use the upcoming Classico to spread more awareness regarding road<br />
safety," said Haaan Al-Kuwari, Head of Events and Hospitality, QSL.<br />
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Reaching out to the youth has always been the target of the Traffic<br />
Department and QSL matches and events are a great medium to impart<br />
awareness, Lt. Colonel Mohamed Radhi Al-Hajri, Director of Media and<br />
Traffic Awareness, said.<br />
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"We will try to increase the traffic awareness among the youth by<br />
using QSL events. It was our target to try to inform them. It will<br />
help them to be more aware about traffic rules. And as we have always<br />
said, the target is to see our country in good light," Al-Hajri said<br />
on Tuesday.<br />
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The 'Classico' clash involving Al Rayyan and Al Sadd will be played on<br />
Thursday at Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium.</div>