After Moussa Bezaz’s contract was not renewed by the PFA last week it was assumed that a candidate was in place. It is becoming abundantly clear that that is not the case and the abrupt cancellation of an August 7th…
On July 26th, MBC’s pan-Arab football program Sada alMala’eb hosted Mohammed Awada, editor-in-chief of Qatari sports magazine Staad alDawha(Doha Stadium). On the topic of Bin Hammam’s FIFA ban, Awada said that the former AFC head was sold out by ‘friends’.…
A little video which hopefully captures the experience of attending a Palestine home match. Date: July 28th 2011 Event: World Cup Qualifier 2nd leg vs. Thailand. Faisal Husseini International Stadium Result: 2-2 (Palestine losing 2-3 on aggregate) Watch in HD!
1. Fahed Attal (Shabab Al-Khaleel) Former Clubs: Al-Jazira (JOR/2006-2010), Wehdat (JOR/2010-2011) After a five year stint in Jordan, an older more experienced Fahed Attal is back in Palestine. A lot was expected of Attal when he burst onto the scene…
The domestic season set to kick off with the Supercup (Al-Am’ary vs. Hilal Al-Quds) on August 5th. One day later the season kicks off for the other eight Premier League teams with the start of the Yasser Arafat Cup. Below…
As per reports on the FA website and various articles in the Palestinian Media. FA President Jibril Rajoub has elected not to renew Moussa Bezaz’s contract while also dissolving the staffs of the Olympic Team and Women’s Team. No word…
You knew it was coming. No matter how hard Aboud and I try and keep things professional on this blog, the fan in us makes a yearly appearance to furiously type out a 3000 word diatribe about the state of…
Let me start off by saying the national team did its name proud on Thursday. Of course we weren’t happy with the result..far from it. But they went for the win with a fighting spirit we haven’t seen in a…
Hard at work! Though I had the fun. You have to thank Bassil at home for the excellent play-by-play. I’ll post more videos and pics tomorrow when I have better internetz. What a week.
Starting XI (4-4-1-1): HIGHLIGHTS. Substitutions: Ali El-Khatib for Fahed Attal (53′) / Eyad Abugharqud for Ashraf Nu’man (65′) / Suleiman Obeid for Ismail Amour (75′) Goals: Murad Alyan (6, 90) Cards: Alyan (15′), Amour (45′) Harbi (sent off 90+3) Recap:…
