Riyadh, Muharram 29, 1439, October 19, 2017, SPA -- Following the road map drawn by the Kingdom's vision 2030 in the field of sports, the Saudi sports authority's chief Turki bin Abdulmohsen Al Al-Sheikh, today stuck a milestone deal with Manchester United club aiming to start a state-of-the-art football industry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Al Al-Sheikh signed the memorandum of understanding with the ECO of the English leading football club Richard Arnold in London, aiming, among others, to establish a number of football academies to teach and coach football to juniors, Saudi Arabia's hope for occupying everlasting leading places in the regional and international rating. According to the Memo, the United will transfer all aspects of the know-how and technologies of sports to Saudi youth cadres. The move is seen as a qualitative leap by the new leader of sports sector who has so far made great strides to adopt a professional way of administration to enter a professional play era of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. --SPA 00:44 LOCAL TIME 21:44 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w516613