Tuesday 6 October 2015

Amid civil war, Syria pushes to qualify for World Cup for first time

Abdulrazak al-Husein of Syria celebrates scoring his

   Any Syrian is going to be happy that there is a Syrian team that is competing on the world stage,” said Kenan Rahmani, a 27-year-old student at American University's Washington College of Law. “But it is a team that is run by the same government that is killing its own citizens. The Syrian people have suffered every tragedy you could ever imagine. It is hard to think about soccer when there are terrible forces destroying our country.” '

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