‘I’ve been robbed of my dreams’: the sporting tragedy of the war in Gaza | Football
Mohammed Abu-Hujair was booked on a flight to Spain final October. A scout from Actual Madrid had visited Gaza in August and invited Mohammed, a 17-year-old who performs on the left wing, to affix a soccer academy with the hope that, if he did effectively, he would keep in Spain. Mohammed additionally had the promise of a contract with Gaza Sport Membership, making him one of many youngest gamers to signal with the staff. Then got here the 7 October assaults on Israel, and the warfare in Gaza. Mohammed didn’t make that flight. “My life has turned the other way up in a blink of an eye fixed,” he says. Mohammed, who had been residing on the al-Buraij refugee camp, is now in search of refuge at a displacement camp on the positioning of the Al-Salah soccer membership in Deir al-Balah. Holding again tears, he will get small consolation from a five-a-side soccer event within the camp. “I’ve been robbed of my desires,” he says. “As a substitute of coaching every single day, I’m now residing in a dilapidated tent the place my largest dream is to get again house. “I stand up every single…