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.
But when Yousef Abuhammad, the patriarch of the village, founded the Taraji Wadi al-Nes football club in 1984, he had no idea that he was putting his small village on the regional map. He had 12 sons who all played for the team that worked its way up the lower leagues to become champions of the Palestinian Premier League.
