A SYRIAN refugee who was brutally kicked by a Hungarian reporter as he carried his son past the border has been given a job by Getafe FC as a football trainer.
Osama Abdul Mohsen (pictured centre), who reached Germany on Tuesday, was flown to Madrid the next day to start work with the National Centre for Training Football Trainers (CENAFE), where he will be a coach to the Liga side's players and also carry out general office work.
According to CENAFE's chairman Miguel Ángel Galán (pictured second from left), he decided to take Osama on after reading an article in Spanish national daily El Mundo where his elder son Almuhannad said he thought his dad would be happiest in Spain 'because of the football'.
The youngster told the newspaper that his father had been a coach for a first division team in Syria before the civil war broke out.
“That's when I thought I really ought to do something for this chap,” Galán confesses.
“We contacted the El Mundo journalist to enable us to get in contact with Osama.
“Fortunately, we have a student at CENAFE of Arabic origin [Moroccan expatriate Mohammed Labrouzi, pictured right] who offered to travel out to Germany and act as interpreter, and accompany Osama back to Madrid.
The 51-year-old Syrian reached Madrid's Atocha station last night with his little boy Zaid, seven (pictured left) whom he was carrying at the time he was viciously kicked by Hungarian reporter Petra László, and another of his sons, Mohammed, 18 (pictured second right) whom he 'picked up' from Paris en route.
Osama's wife and two other children are currently in a refugee camp in Turkey, but Galán says they will also be brought to Madrid.
“The first thing we're going to do is get him a Spanish teacher,” the chairman explains.
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