A Saudi Arabian footballer is amongst a number of different gamers who scribbled out the Israeli flag from their uniform forward of an exhibition match between former stars from Arab international locations towards these from world wide.
The fixture was a showcase occasion the FIFA Arab Cup Final yesterday, which noticed Algeria defeat neighbours Tunisia 2-0.
Nawaf Al-Temyat of Saudi Arabia enjoying for the FIFA Arab Legends workforce was noticed on social media with an inked out Israel flag on his jersey which included all 211 FIFA member states. He was joined by different gamers together with Syria’s Firas Al-Khatib, Younis Mahmoud of Iraq and a Qatar journalist Mohammed Sa’adoun who was additionally participating within the recreation, hosted in Doha.
كرة القدم رسالة ولعبه في نفس الوقت @altemyat 👏🏻👏🏻#نواف_التمياط pic.twitter.com/6RyO8rpkJq
— #سعود_بن_عبدالعزيز (@Saud_95J) December 17, 2021
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The Arab Legends workforce went on to beat the World Legends workforce, which included the likes of Yuri Djorkaeff, Marcel Desailly, Cafu and Andrea Pirlo in a penalty shootout.
It was additionally reported that three former Algerian gamers had been to play within the match however boycotted the sport after discovering that Israeli Avram Grant was the coach for the opposition. Rabah Madjer, Rafik Saïfi and Rafik Halliche all pulled out of the match in protest of the previous Chelsea supervisor’s involvement.
The supervisor of the Algerian workforce which received the Arab Cup, Madjid Bougherra stated the victory was devoted to the “Palestinian folks, particularly to the folks of Gaza”.
Followers of each Algeria and Tunisia waved their nationwide flags along with Palestine flags, and comes after Algerian gamers raised the flag after beating Morocco within the semi-finals, whereas Tunisian players did the identical after beating Egypt forward of the ultimate.
