Whatever the result in their friendly against Bohemians at a sold-out Dalymount Park on Wednesday evening, just getting a Palestinian squad to Dublin in time for the game was a victory in itself.
The players have been overwhelmed by the reception they’ve received since most of the squad arrived in Dublin on Sunday.Durán double rocks Liverpool and secures vital point for Aston Villa“Being here is amazing, we’ve seen the love, we’ve felt the love, and we will take it back to Palestine with us,” said team manager Deema Said, the former international who is a native of Ramallah in the West Bank. “In Palestine we’re not even allowed show as many of our flags as we’ve seen flying here.
Since coming into the squad, for February’s West Asian Championship in Saudi Arabia, her team-mates have become “like my older sisters”.Dina Abdeen and Sara Kord of the Palestine women's football team at Glendalough Visitor Centre in Glendalough, Co Wicklow on Monday. Photograph: Ben Brady/Inpho “Emotionally, it has been a lot. It’s very hard because I don’t know what I can do for my people because I’m so far away. But my people are very strong, we don’t give up easily. Being here in Ireland, supporting them, representing them, wearing the flag with my name on my back means a lot. Hopefully we can make them proud.
He spoke, with no little passion, about what he claimed is “the ethnic cleansing” of the Palestinians, noting that the game against Bohemians marked the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, when Israel tried “to negate Palestine from the map”.
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