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The Israeli winger, Alaa Eldin Hassan, started the season as a bench player in Bnei Sakhnin, but in the last month he became a full-fledged player in the Qatari Al Arabi. And there he plays with none other than European champion Marco Verratti, ex-Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain, Rafinha.
24-year-old Hassan, born in Mashhad in the north of Israel, played in recent years for Hapoel as an escort, M.S. Kfar Qasim and the laborer Umm Al Faham, before he signed with Bnei Sakhnin in the summer. He started in the first round against Hapoel Tel Aviv and played 12 minutes as a substitute against Hapoel Petah Tikva, but after Sakhnin transferred the players of the squad in the budget control, he was relegated to the stands.
When he was invited to the Palestine team for the Asian Championship and responded positively, Bnei Sakhnin decided to release him and explained that he was not in the professional plans. After the invitation to the Asian Championship, he wrote a post on Instagram (free translation from the West):
"In the name of God, the Most Generous, the Most Merciful. Praise be to God, the Lord of the worlds, who allowed us and honored us to represent the Palestinian people and the Palestinian national team, and who allowed us to reach this achievement in the light of The circumstances in which our nation lives. Love and thanks to everyone who supported us from all the free people in the world. I also thank the professional team that gave me this honor to represent our national team... We strive to make the free and patient people happy and spread hope in everyone's souls."
In addition, he published a post with a picture of himself in the uniform of the Palestine national team, in which he wrote (in a free Western translation): "We come to you, raising our heads in Jerusalem, as our masters and our people...".
In recent years, he played in Hapoel as an escort, M.S. Kfar Qasim and the laborer Umm Al Faham. Aladdin Hassan at the signing ceremony in Qatar/Official website, Al Arabi
The fact that he represents the Palestine national team made him an Asian player - that is, a certain attraction in the shadow of the foreigner restriction. After recording 46 minutes in the Asian Championship, he received an offer from El Arabi and signed. Of course, the media in the Arabic language wrote that "Al Arabi signed a Palestinian player" and the word "Israel" was not mentioned anywhere, even though Hassan holds a blue ID card.
Last summer, El Arabi paid Paris Saint-Germain 45 million euros for Marco Verratti and 15 million euros for the defender Abdo Diallo. She bought from Espanyol the Spanish-Algerian Simo Kadari, added from Feyenoord the Dutch-Moroccan Mohamed Tavoni and Rafinha was already there. They were joined by the Israeli-Palestinian Ala Eldin Hassan.
Hasan was sent off in his first appearance with a straight red, which resulted in a two-game suspension. He returned for 12 minutes as a substitute against Al Sadd and in the match against Julian Draxler's Al Ahly, he started and played 84 minutes.
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