Lebanese footballer Celine Haidar was about to make her dream of playing for the national women’s team come true, but debris from an Israeli strike left the 19-year-old in a medically induced coma.
Last week, she had been seriously wounded in an Israeli strike on her home neighbourhood of Shiyah, as the air force pummelled Beirut’s southern suburbs.
“She dreamt of competing abroad. She said she wanted to be like Ronaldo and Messi … She wanted to be a star and for everyone to talk about her,” her mother Sanaa Sharhour told AFP.
“They killed her dream.”
