🚨 To confirm:
Yes. Celine Haidar is out of coma. She is conscious and quickly recovering.
When her friends/family talk to her, she is able to react with simple moves. But, she is yet to talk or move.
As for the crowdfunding, her family isn't in need of anything atm.
If you missed our panel on women's basketball in the Middle East @guqatar.bsky.social, you can now watch the recordings of the event. Our wonderful speakers were @lempika7.bsky.social & @assiletoufaily.bsky.social. I had the pleasure moderating the discussion.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vusN...
This Is Koora MENA is a series devised and delivered by journalists, @assiletoufaily.bsky.social and @drewvinestock.bsky.social to empower women footballers in the Middle East and North Africa and educate a wider audience to their stories.
Céline is still fighting her own fight in the hospital. Keep her in your prayers.
الفرحة بعدها ما كِملِت ولازم تِكمَل ✌️🤲💘
✅Asia Cup Ticket
Lebanon secured a spot in the upcoming FIBA Asia Cup scheduled in the summer of 2025 in Jeddah.
Céline Haidar, the 19-year-old Lebanon international, was hit by shrapnel following an Israeli airstrike. She’s in an induced coma.
Many are asking @fifacom.bsky.social and @uefacom.bsky.social to act. They are yet to respond to my request for comment.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
In response to the story of Celine Haidar, there are renewed calls for FIFA to impose sporting sanctions on Israel.
As we reported, a legal bid from PFA was made in March. Fifa “are making themselves ridiculous” by continuous stalling on a decision.
Piece here ⤵️
inews.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Why would they be? Lebanon is an Asian country.
Here is the story. Above image via @assiletoufaily.bsky.social
#Lebanon #Israel #Football
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Assile Toufaily: My friend and former team mate Celine Haidar, a member of the Lebanese women’s national team, was severely injured following an Israeli airstrike in Beirut today. She is in critical condition. The whole women's football community in Lebanon is in disbelief
It took FIFA 5 seconds to suspend Russia after the 2nd invasion of Ukraine, and yet Israel is still a member.
In addition to maiming or murdering *multiple* Palestinian footballers over the years, they just put Celine Haidar, a 19yo player for the Lebanon woman's team, in a coma after a strike.
November 2024: Saeed Saeed who plays for "Al-Qusaiba SC."
November 2024: The Lebanese Kyokushinkai Federation lost one of its coaches, Nabil Al-Jundi.
November 2024: Ali Jaafar Chehimi, coach at "Shabab Al-Sahel" club.
November 2024: Hadi Reslan, "Romanista" academy player.
October 2024: Lebanese Handball Federation member, Hassan Kawtharani.
Kawtharani was also a founding member of the Lebanese Mini Football Academy and was keen on giving young girls in his region (Nabatieh area, South of Lebanon) access to the sport.
A good friend of mine.
October 2024: Ali Farhat, a former Lebanese goalkeeper who played with Al-Safa Club in the 2022-2023 season.
He was working on obtaining the "Goalkeepers Coaching Courses" and was a goalkeepers' coach at CFA Academy.
October 2024: Ali Youssef Abou Khalil.
October 2024: Ali Eid, coach at the youth academy of "Tayr Debba" club.
October 2024: The goalkeeper and captain of "Al-Hur Al-Amili" club, Mohammed Ahmad Al-Khashen.
October 2024: "Al Nabi Sheet/Baalbek Youth Club" announces that their Academy director, Hussein Abdul Karim Al-Moussawi, was killed.
October 2024: "Al Nabi Sheet/Baalbek Youth Club" mourns its team captain, Malek Al-Moussawi, who was killed in one of the raids on the Baalbek village of Nabi Sheet.
September 2024: Al-Tadamon Tyre club mourned his promising youth academy player, Mohammad Kanj, from the town of Tefehta in southern Lebanon.
July 2024: Al-Mabarrah youth academy player, Hassan Fadlallah.
March 2024: Mustafa Gharib, one of the leaders of "Al Nabi Sheet/Baalbek Youth Club" was martyred.
THREAD: the sports community in Lebanon has been heavily affected this past year.
Here are the martyrs who lost their lives since the start of the war.
I did a #Lebanon #Starterpack y’all
go.bsky.app/Rh15fzv
I'm doing nothing really. I've known Celine for ages and played for a couple of years with her but I don't really consider myself as a close friend to her, as she's quite younger and she was part of the younger generation of players, but I did not want this to pass unnoticed 🙏
Been wanting to leave x for a while now but always felt like its THE platform to stay connected to the journalistic/academic world. Glad we've got this platform now.
The Qatari newspaper The Peninsula dedicated an article to the panel that you can read here:
thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/15/1...
