SME-Written by: Abdullah Al-Harazi
My relationship with football enthusiasm goes back to the late seventies and the beginning of the eighties of the last century, when youthful enthusiasm was rampant in both countries. As the years passed and the daily integration into sports media work, the pace of enthusiasm began to decline until it reached a stage of complete silence. I used to watch all the matches with one glance, and I did not care who won or who. He loses, and in the end I congratulate the winner, and entertain the loser from the fans, players and administrators with some words of relief.
However, in the last European Championship “Euro 2024” in Germany, I regained something from the past and encouraged a number of teams, including Spain, against the teams of Germany, France, and Britain, which tried with their governments to spoil our Arab joy in organizing “Qatar for the 2002 World Cup” when those teams came to Doha and in Its intention and purpose is to spoil the great joy of the historical championship by promoting the latest scandals of these immoral societies carrying the slogan of “homosexuality” that destroys all values and principles. The governments of these and other teams did not stop at this point of hatred for Arabs in particular and Muslims in general, so their explicit support for the genocide to which the people of Gaza were subjected was a disgrace. A shame that history has never witnessed and will never witness, even though the peoples of these teams were more aware, aware, and humane in their rejection of what is happening in proud Gaza and their renewed positive stances rejecting the actions of their governments.
From this standpoint, my voice was gone, and my feelings were overflowing with love for all the groups that were with the truth, and fate had it that the hero and knight of the final would be a team that we love and that loves us, and we are connected by close ties, as Arab blood runs through the bodies of quite a few Spaniards, from whose cheeks emanate traces of modesty and shame for everything that is contrary to the laws. And values, and their history tells pages of the stories of the Islamic civilization in Andalusia, which illuminated the path of progress and prosperity for Europe, and because the position of the Spaniards with the Arabs and Palestinians in this time was honorable for the government and the people, and in the last match, the curse of failure to win the championship continued to haunt the team of the hateful country, Britain, with misfortunes. In today’s world, the Spaniards have added a fourth star to their record that demonstrates sporting and moral superiority.
And peace is the end