Beautiful night in Bilbao

Sometimes there are football matches when the actual game was secondary and that was the case last night in Bilbao.

It was a friendly against Euskadi and Palestine, not an official friendly because Euskadi is not a FIFA member.

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Euskadi (the Basque Country, a region of Spain and France, have a lot of decent players, almost all of them playing in the 1st Division in Spain, onewho is playing in Portugal and one who is playing in Greece. The team would be competitive in International competition and would give World Cup qualifyinh a good rattle. The Palestinian team did not manage to qualify for the FIFA World Cup but given the hardships they face, they deserve gteat credit.

The night was all about solidarity and showing the Palestinian people that they are not alone. There was a not too dis-similar night in Dalymount Park last yearwhen Palestine’s women’s team faced Bohemians, but this was on a much larger scale, one of Europe’s best stadiums, 51,000 people in the stands.

A beautiful night all round.

The Palestine National Team will travel to Barcelona to face Catalunya on Tuesday.

Free Palestine