Thursday, May 5, 2016

Syrian whose plight went viral finds refuge in Spanish soccer (Reuters)

Osama Abdul Mohsen, a Syrian refugee, whistles during a training session with his junior team in Villaverde, a neighbourhood in Madrid, Spain, April 14, 2016. REUTERS/Sergio Perez

By Sergio Perez MADRID (Reuters) - Mementos from the soccer world that brought Syrian refugee Osama Abdul Mohsen to Spain are strewn around the flat he shares with two of his sons, including a ball signed by Real Madrid's star players and a banner for the local team, Getafe. The apartment that well-wishers have housed him in is adorned with someone else's trinkets, including rows of encyclopedias in Spanish, a language Mohsen still struggles to speak. Mohsen's story went viral after he was filmed being tripped up by a camera woman as he fled police near the Hungarian border with Serbia last September.


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