The family behind a unique Palestinian football club |

Adeyemi Adeyemi

Global Courant

Video duration 46 minutes 13 seconds

A small football club from the village fights its way from the bottom up to become champions of the Palestinian Premier League.

Wadi al-Nes was once an unknown village on top of a hill south of Bethlehem, sandwiched between the Israeli separation wall and an illegal Israeli settlement. It had a population of less than a thousand, including hundreds of boys who had nothing to do but play street football.

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