Ten VAR cameras, a video referee, a field referee, a sports announcer, and pitch organisers, in addition to 28 competing teams and their fans … dear reader, I’m not talking here about the Premier League - first tier of English football- for example, I’m talking about “Zayyat” Ramadan Tournament.

Zayyat Tournament is a football tournament held in Ramadan, held for the second year in a row on Ahmed Hasan Al-Zayyat Secondary School for Boys playground in Talkha, Dakahlia Governorate, including 28 teams from both Talkha and Mansoura cities and their suburbs. Each team can subscribe for 2,500 EGP, and the money is awarded to the top three places at the end of the tournament, which continues until the end of Ramadan.

Al-Sayed Al-Araby organises this tournament with the help of the sons of his city, Talkha. And like major tournaments, Zayyat provides modern technology in a scene that is unfamiliar for a Ramadan tournament organised by simple people… the thing that earned the praises of social media visitors since the launching of the second edition of the tournament on the first of the month of Ramadan.

A few hours before Iftar (breaking the fast), different age groups of children, youths, and the elderly from Talkha and its suburbs, set their watches in order to head to the school playground where the tournament is held, circling the dusty playground cheering and enjoying the games using drums and fireworks, just like professional teams in North Africa.

“Qalam Al-Mansoura” attended Zayyat Tournament competitions, monitoring with its lens the details of this joyous event.