Refugee kicked by Hungarian camerawoman gets job as soccer coach in Spain

Zaid will soon be moving to a Madrid suburb to train with a football academy, who have offered their services to rebuild the Mohsen family life.

Mohsen was captured on video carrying Zaid when camerawoman Petra Laszlo tripped him in a field full of other migrants running from authorities near the Hungarian village of Roszke.

Before the incident, Mohsen had worked as a football coach in Syria.

SPAIN’S National Centre for training football coaches, Cenafe, says it will put the man, who was not identified by name, to work as soon as possible.

Officials also said Mohsen’s 7-year-old son, Zaid – who was in his father’s arms when he was tripped by Laszlo – may even have an opportunity to play for the soccer club someday.

Until earlier this week, they had been heading through the country as they tried to reach northern Europe, with Germany the most-favoured destination.

Around midnight Wednesday, Mohsen arrived with his two sons, Zaid, 7 and Mohammad, 18 to a media storm at the Atocha railway station. But he does know quite a bit about football, having coached in the Syrian first division. “When we saw the story of Mohsen published in the newspapers we felt very bad about it”, Galán told the newspaper.

In a tweet, the school thanked Spain for showing “solidarity” in bringing Mohsen and his son to the country.

“I want this problem to be solved”, he said.

Spain is to accept around 17,000 Syrian refugees in 2015, with 2,400 expected to be housed in the Madrid area.

“We have a place for a teacher on our staff and we think he will be the ideal person to be able to teach people who will then go to work in the Middle East”, explained Conrado Galan of the Cenafe center at a press conference in Getafe.

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Barcelona’s new mayor, Ada Colau, started the initiative by launching a register for families willing to provide shelter or other help for refugees.

“Meanwhile, Mohsen’s wife and two other children are back in Mersin, a Turkish city on the Mediterranean near the Syrian border”.

Spain, though, is not necessarily the top destination for many refugees.