The Tunisian Esperance fans outdid themselves and saluted Palestine and Gaza in an exceptional way, which is still the talk of the media and social media, in their team’s 3-0 victory yesterday over TP Mazembe from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in the second leg of the quarter-finals of the African Football League.
With a victory on Thursday at home, Esperance compensated for its 1-0 loss to its rival in the first leg that was held between them 5 days ago in the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam.
Esperance set an Arab match in the much-anticipated semi-final with Wydad Casablanca of Morocco, the runner-up of the last edition of the African Champions League, which beat Enyimba of Nigeria 4-0 on aggregate in the two-legged matches.
Epic audience #Taraji Tunisian in a match #Mazembe 🇵🇸✌️🇹🇳#AFL #African_League pic.twitter.com/8tSH1giLXi
— Tarek Ghdiri Tarek Al-Ghdiri (@TGhdiri) October 26, 2023
In the stands of Rades Stadium on the outskirts of the capital, Tunis, the tifo banner raised by the fans of the “Sheikh of Tunisian Clubs” was a picture of the martyr Tunisian engineer Mohamed Al-Zouari, who was killed by gunfire in front of his house in the city of Sfax (southern Tunisia), with a silencer pistol on December 15. The first 2016.
A picture of “Zouari” was raised.. Tunisian Esperance fans raise flags and banners supporting the Palestinians during the team’s match against Congolese Mazembe in the quarter-finals of the African Super League #Gaza | #Tunisia pic.twitter.com/D3F0tFOhqj
– Al Jazeera Mubasher (@ajmubasher) October 26, 2023
Following his assassination, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) mourned him, confirming his affiliation with the “Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades,” and saying that he was the supervising engineer of the project to develop the manufacture of drones and autonomous submarines.
In addition to Al-Zouari’s image, the keffiyeh and the masked person appeared, symbolizing resistance, not to mention the thousands of Palestinian flags that covered the stadium’s stands and the chants that did not stop throughout the match.
At Mohammed V Stadium in Casablanca, Moroccan Wydad fans shook its stands and their voices shouted chants in support of Palestine and Gaza amid a forest of Palestinian flags, scarves and scarves in the stadium stands.
Wydad Sports Team fans sing loudly, in a touching scene, for Palestine on a boat #Mohamed_V B #White HouseWaving Palestinian flags.
In this match, he was able to defeat Nigeria’s Enyimba 3-0, securing a place for him in the semi-finals of the African Super League. pic.twitter.com/Vs2aafB8dT– Saad Al-Din Al-Othmani EL OTMANI Saad dine (@Elotmanisaad) October 26, 2023
FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/nXhRvnWiYS
— Wydad Shorts (@wydadshorts) October 26, 2023
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