Al-Houthi and the Brotherhood’s attempts to politically employ the youth team’s victory in the West Asian Cup
English - Tuesday 14 December 2021 الساعة 05:41 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
The junior football team's victory in the eighth West Asian Cup after its victory over the Saudi national team yesterday, on penalties, did not pass without political recruitment by the Houthi coup militia and the terrorist Brotherhood organization.
Once it was confirmed that the Yemeni team had won the championship after goalkeeper Wadah al-Radfani saved the fifth penalty shootout, the leaders and activists of Houthi and Islah raced to employ this historic achievement and exploit it to target their political opponents, turning this victory into a new round of conflict, the victims of which are the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Southern Transitional Council.
The beginning of the exploitation was from the Houthi militia, Iran’s arm in Yemen, which considered this sporting victory a round of the war that has been going on in Yemen for seven years, describing it as a victory over what they called “aggression” in their own land.
Pro-Houthi accounts on social media have published a unified publication that talks about this sporting achievement as a war victory in the depths of Saudi territory, ignoring sports ethics and that sport is far from political conflicts.
Islah activists were not far from this exploitation, as they used the spontaneous celebrations witnessed in most of the directorates of the capital, Aden and the southern governorates, politically, and considered them a popular referendum for the fate of Yemeni unity, which the majority of the southern people and its political components consider finished.
Islah activists were not satisfied with that, but they went on to exploit these celebrations by provoking the Transitional Council - the most prominent component in the south - and its supporters and cadres by describing these celebrations, far removed from politics and its corridors, as confirmation of the low popularity of the Transitional Council, as they claimed.
In general, these attempts by extremist religious militias did not prevent the celebrations of this historic achievement in the north and south, and assured everyone that sports have morals and clean accounts that have not yet been mixed with political ones.
