The episode (28/25/25) of the program “The other son”, Khalid Bin Hamad Al -Busaidi, vice -president of the Arab Olympic committees, which spoke of his family and his interests, as well as the reality and the future of sport in Oman’s sultanate.
Khaled reveals that his family belongs to the management family of Oman’s sultanate.
He describes the state of the sultanate before the arrival of the Sultan Qaboos which he lived at an advanced stadium compared to the neighboring countries. For example, electricity was only present in houses for hours, but soon the situation changed with the Sultan Qaboos reaching power, because it quickly invested oil income and was very raw in education, and it has a famous saying: “We will teach our children even in the shade of the trees.”
During his career and his study career, Khaled said that he had studied social affairs and then worked for a certain time within the government, then he obtained a master’s degree in business administration, and he said that he spoke with his father about the possibility of focusing on the family’s commercial activity, so he asked him to ask for permission from the Sultan Qaboos in this subject, and he was approved encouragement by the Sultan.
Unlike his brother who went to politics, and he currently held the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs in Sultanate, Khaled entered the sports world at the request of another brother to the one who led Fenja, where he was elected president of the club and after the death of his brother Sami in 1988, Khaled was elected president of the club.
Under the direction of Khaled, Fenga won the first regional title of Omani Sports, which won the first Gulf Club Cup.
The Omanaise team also won the first Gulf Cup in the history of the Sultanate in 2009 when Khaled was the former president of the Omani Football Federation, and after this victory, the late Sultan Qaboos, the Oman medal, gave him.
Khaled won in the First Elections of the Omani Football Association in 2007, then Achieved Another Victory by acclamation in 2011. He Says to the Program “The Other Son” that after his Victory by Acclamation, 3 Clubs Complained About the Mechanism of Holding the Elections and Stabbed The Results with the Administrative Arbitration. Sultanate in order to restore the elections, but the international football association (FIFA) Interfed and feel an official message to the government, explaining that the Federation is not approved by the decision of the administrative court because it is because it considers that it is an intervention in mathematical cases.
Khaled claims that they were then embarrassed between a court decision rendered on behalf of Sultan Qaboos and alerting FIFA, as if the administrative court decision was applied, Omani football will be arrested, and Khaled said that he suggested that the director was to resign from the Omanaise Federation and to bring new elections, which occurred and that the result was also his victory in 2012.
After having spent 9 years at the head of the Omani football association, Khaled – as he himself revealed – decided not to present himself to the Federation in 2016, but he took over the presidency of the Omanais Olympic Committee concerned by a wider field in sport and was also elected vice -president of the Union of Arab National Olympic Committees.
Musical interests
On the other hand, Khaled Al -Busaidi expresses his optimism according to which the day will occur in which the Arab football federation will be chaired, noting that what has prevented this from being achieved so far is that the Arabs do not agree on a person who represents them, and says that the Qatarae experience in the organization of the World Cup has highlighted the Arabic region in terms of quality of efficiency, of the organization.
He expresses his conviction that “on the basis of Qatar’s success in the organization of the World Cup, we will do a sport and a captain from FIFA, perhaps over the next 10 or 12 years”.
In addition to his specialization in the field of sport, Khaled has a professional in the field of music, because he is a composer and author, and he has more than 200 pieces of music and songs, some of which were recorded for senior artists and singers of the Gulf and the Arab world. He says that the song and the national word tightened more.