Showing posts with label Barcelona Palestine Ramallah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barcelona Palestine Ramallah. Show all posts

Friday, April 22, 2011

2 Diary from Palestine - Ramallah

Empty streets, all televisions tuned to the game, silence, then the excited voice of the announcer booms and bursts through the streets. It's not Fabio Caressa, who whispers in comparison to the microphone. Yet the atmosphere is that of playing Italy in the World Cup. If not at home, people in bars to cheer and suffer together.

Among the names of Mourinho and Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Guardiola, the words are in Arabic. We are in Ramallah, the capital of Palestine, which was to Arafat. The game is the final of the Copa del Rey, the Spanish international trophy, but, in fact, we're in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and late evening.