Episode 3237: Lamine Yamal For The Ages, Abubaker Abed On Life and Death in Gaza

Lamine Yamal. If the World didn’t know by now – and they should have, well now they definitely do. At 17 years of age Yamal has played 100 games for Barcelona, last night he shone in an epic Champions League encounter. This was his Messi v Chelsea in 2006. The world wants more. The world wants another Messi.

Yesterday Abubaker Abed came to our studio for a sit-down with Ken. Abubaker arrived in Dublin late last month having left the Gaza Strip for the first time in his life. He is 22. He had hoped to study and become a sports journalist but conflict came to him first, pushing him into becoming an accidental war reporter.

In his first interview since arriving in Ireland Abubaker tells us about how life and death have become intertwined in Gaza and how football offers those in the tented camps the briefest moments of escape.

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