Syrian soccer: Succeeding against the odds (JMD on Aljazeera America)

Oct 09, 2015

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Despite civil war, Syria’s tightly-controlled national team remains on course to qualify for its first ever World Cup

October 9, 2015 10:16AM ET

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s political fortunes are looking up on more than one battlefield. Even as Russian military intervention …

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