Dignitaries during the opening of Lina’s Sports Café at Salwa Road on Monday. Pic: Abdul Basit / THe Peninsula
Doha: Adding to its array of successful ventures, Prime International opened its latest concepts, Lina’s Sports Café, on Monday, at Salwa Road, next to HSBC Bank.
Sheikh Faleh bin Nawaf bin Nasser Al Thani attended the opening, in addition to a number of known sport and media figures in Doha. Lina’s Sports Café was designed to cater to the taste of sport enthusiasts.
Along with its spacious location, the Café includes a large screen to broadcast all major sports games, comfortable seating arrangements and a newly conceptualised menu especially designed to satisfy the most discerned taste buds.
Furthermore, what distinguishes the Café are the sports memorabilia on display. They are all part of the collection of Sheikh Nawaf bin Nasser Al Thani.
They include a Napoli shirt signed by the winners of the 2014 Coppa Italia, a shirt signed by Neymar and another by Ronaldo, a picture signed by the winning team of the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, boxing gloves signed by non-other than Mohammed Ali, a shirt signed by the winning team of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, another set of boxing gloves signed by James Degale, the World Super Midweight Champion 2015, a ball signed by Thomas Edward Patrick Brady (one of the only two player to win five Super Bowls), a pair of football shoes signed by Xavi, as well as a picture and a tennis ball signed by “Rafa”.
