Football finds a way, even in fractured Palestine

SINGAPORE - Decades of war, occupation, and political unrest have plagued Palestine but against all the odds, football has somehow found a way to thrive.

Head coach Noureddine Ould Ali, an Algerian who first worked with the Palestinian Football Association in 2010 before taking the reins of the senior team last year, said their recent rise is down to"big effort" by the association's president, retired general Jibril Rajoub. Ali said:"We can't have only one league because we have problems moving between these two areas. Palestine is a very complicated situation. And football in Palestine is also very complicated.

United States-born midfielder Nazmi Albadawi is one of them. The 27-year-old, who was born in North Carolina and has featured in Major League Soccer for FC Cincinnati, made his international debut last November in a friendly match against Pakistan in Ramallah, and scored the winner in their 2-1 victory.

"Those of us from outside the country take a different way to the players that have passports, because they have to go through more checkpoints and it's more complicated for them.

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