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The Story Behind the Euskadi-Palestine Football Match to Be Played in Bilbao

Summary by El Pais
One afternoon in 2019 Yaser Hamed, a Palestinian surname but neighbor of Leioa (Bizkaia), received a personal message on Facebook. It was written in Arabic and with the help of the Google translator managed to find out that it was a call to go to Ramallah, in the West Bank. “The first thing I did was to look if the guy who was writing to me was really the selector and then I got to know that they were calling me to play with the selection. Hamed…

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One afternoon in 2019 Yaser Hamed, a Palestinian surname but neighbor of Leioa (Bizkaia), received a personal message on Facebook. It was written in Arabic and with the help of the Google translator managed to find out that it was a call to go to Ramallah, in the West Bank. “The first thing I did was to look if the guy who was writing to me was really the selector and then I got to know that they were calling me to play with the selection. Hamed…

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El Pais broke the news in Spain on Thursday, November 13, 2025.
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