Al-Ghadab was among the scores of refugees fleeing the border in Hungary when he was deliberately kicked by the camerawoman Laszlo.
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The Syrian refugee who was tripped while holding his child by a Hungarian camerawoman is arriving in Spain Wednesday after a soccer coaching school offered to help his family rebuild their lives.
After the incident in Hungary, Mohsen ended up in Germany, where media reports revealed he had been a soccer coach in Syria. You may have seen the video clip of Osama Abdul Mohsen’s son falling to the ground.
The school then convinced him to come to Spain, where he will stay for now in an apartment near the school’s training facility in the suburb of Getafe.
Of being tripped when running with seven-year-old Zaid in his arms, Mr Mohsen said his first reaction had been surprise. Once they were put in touch by phone, Galan offered Osama to train in Spain.
Spain’s El Pais newspaper said that Mohsen’s new employers had sent an Arabic speaking person to Munich to bring back their newest recruit, together with his two children.
“Now I feel that I am (flying) in the sky”, he told the several dozen journalists who waited for him as he arrived from Barcelona with Zaid and another son. “As soon as he learns Spanish, we plan to offer him a job at our organisation”. “First we’re giving him a hand as a humanitarian gesture”.
The father and son will be received by Miguel Galan, the president of the national coach training centre, where Osama would work, as he was a coach in his country for the al-Fotuwa club. “He’s interested in our school”.
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CENAFE aim to train the Syrian coach, help him and his family for asylum in Spain and allow Zaid to play for one of the local teams in Getafe.
