Football national team of BiH played a qualification match for the World Championship against Greece on Sunday.
Once again, the Dragons had thunderous support from their fans.
Each trip to one of the matches of the national team brings an especially interesting story, and one such story was shared by Dženan Selimbegović, who traveled to Athens.
Selimbegović and his friends took a Syrian boy to the match. It all happened accidentally, when one fan of BiH cancelled the trip in the last moment.
“I was with my friends at the match Greece-BiH. It was an unforgettable trip with an amazing team, over 2.500 kilometers of good and bad roads through Serbia, Macedonia, Greece, Albania and Montenegro. However, what made this trip special was one boy from Syria, named Rais,” Selimbegović started his story.
“Namely, one of our friends cancelled the trip in the last moment and we were convinced that we are travelling with one extra ticket for the match. However, at the metro where we got on the train which was supposed to take us to the stadium, one mister brought a boy who was headed to his aunt and he asked us to accompany him, so that he would not get lost in the crowd. We met with him. He is a refugee from Syria. He has been in Athens for seven months in a collective accommodation with his mother. His younger brother is with his uncle in Germany. His father stayed in Damascus and they are all from Homs. He is smart, handsome and always smiling. The man who brought him told him we are from Bosnia, that we are Muslims… The boy started hugging us joyfully. One of my friends remembered the extra ticket and we offered him to come with us to the match. He was very happy and he said it was his dream, the first match he ever attended in his life,” Selimbegović wrote on Facebook.
“One could think that the entire trip was actually because of him,” Selimbegović concluded.
(Source: faktor.ba)
