A football club from Spain will help a 14-year-old fan from Morocco who lost his family in an earthquake
Real Madrid is going to accept 14-year-old Abdul Rahim Auhid, a fan from Morocco, who was orphaned after a terrible earthquake that claimed the lives of his family members, into its academy.
Abdul became known to the whole world after he gave an interview to Al Arabiya TV channel from Saudi Arabia, standing near a destroyed house and wiping tears with a Real Madrid T-shirt. His story touched the hearts of many people, including Real Madrid fans, who turned to the club through social networks with a request to help the boy.
Real Madrid did not remain indifferent to the fate of Abdul and found him through the TV channel. The club offered him to move to Spain and study at their academy while he continues to study at school.
An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 occurred late in the evening on September 8. Its epicenter lay, according to various sources, at a depth of 11 km to 18 km in the Atlas Mountains, about 70 km south of Marrakech. The earthquake was the strongest in Morocco in the last 120 years, and in North Africa such natural disasters are relatively rare. The number of victims of the earthquake in Morocco was 2,946 people, another 5,530 were injured.
Real Madrid is one of the football clubs that have expressed their sorrow and support to the victims of the disaster. The Club issued an official statement expressing its deep concern and solidarity with the people of Morocco.
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