Kicked down in Hungary, saved by Spain

A Syrian refugee who was filmed being deliberately tripped up by a camerawoman as he fled police in Hungary with his young son has been offered a job in Madrid.

The video of Osama Abdul Mohsen falling over with his child in his arms went viral on media and social networks last week

Both of them have now arrived in Madrid. Osama is to work in football after the head of a school for football coaches in the Spanish town of Getafe read he’d done a similar job before in Syria.

Refugee tripped by Hungarian reporter to coach in Getafe http://t.co/RwPPJ1Y1al pic.twitter.com/t0MDr1zn3i— Goal (@goal_intl) September 16, 2015


Miguel Ángel Galán from the National Training Center of Football Coaches said he had been happy to help:

“Osama and Said are privileged, they had luck. “Thanks” to the trip they appeared in the news and I could contact them, but there are still a lot of people, thousands of refugees that need our help.”

Father and son are also being provided with an apartment