Al-Mustaqbal Al mushriq Club`s rule in development the sports movement in Mosul (2003 – 2014)

Mosul is one of the pioneering cities of Iraq in sports activities. Attempts to establish sports teams date back to the 1930s when applications were submitted to Mutasarrifiyyah of Mosul Liwa and the Ninawa directorate of police for permission to establish sports teams in Mosul such as the al-Jazirah Team in 1934 and the al-Ahli Team in 1949 among many others. The team forming movement continued as time passed in Mosul until the establishment of the team of Mosul in 1957 and Al-Futuwah in 1960.The above-mentioned teams remained working Activitly to develop the sports movement in the city, and they were able to gain good results in their sports careers at the Iraqi level, but at the same time, they all faced a lack of Iraqi government support and a shortage of money. At the turn of the century,government support increased, and the teams received annual governmental grants-in-aid like other Iraqi teams which boosted competition between them and with other Iraqi provinces, particularly in some activities such as basketball, weightlifting track and field handball and volleyball; they also won many Iraqi Championships, and the situation remained improving until the period when Iraq was embargoed (1991-2003).The researcher tries to shed light on one of those teams, i.e., the Al-Mustaqbal al-Mushriq sports team, which took over a park that has belonged to the Municipality of Mosul as its headquarters since its establishment in 2004 up until now, after obtaining an official license. The team's role came to the fore in developing the sports movement in Mosul by adopting some modern activities such as Takeonejetsu and many local sports activities that already existed in the city.