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18 Vol.1, Issue 22, August 2020 ELITE

Prepared by: The life of youth coaches (interview Written by:
Farah Islam with promising football coach Mirna Ossama

Bola Atta)

In an online interview held on July 23 with - Why did you specifically choose Great Britain?
one of the people who, despite being Was your inability to travel frustrating or was
enrolled in the Faculty of Commerce, was a stronger motivation to reach your goal?
very passionate about football and At the beginning it was very frustrating
everything related to it, thus, he made his especially since it encountered the health
own path towards his passion. He started conditions that I was going through but I
studying football training and worked in, benefited a lot because it made me able to
too, in addition he worked as a performance define my goal and the way to follow, which
analyst in several companies and ended up was of course positive. After high school, I
working in the Spanish company “Total moved to writing, creating my own “koora
football analysis” which deals with all magazine” page where I published
sports but he has chosen to specialize in the performance analysis. The latter has grown a
field of football; Bola Atta. lot, reaching fifty thousand subscribers. And
And the dialogue was held as follows ... thanks to this page, I was known in this

domain and started heading to bigger sites.
- When did you first become passionate
about football and training? Is there a - Was this page your own idea?
family member or friend related to this area Yes, it was my own idea and what was
that could motivate you? much more motivating for me was that I was
I started at prep age when I was fourteen; working with someone from an Arab country
I tried to travel to the UK as well as as a writer in a magazine, but due to his lack of
contacting a county in the English acceptance of different points of views, many
Federation called Derbyshire. I ended up conflicts arose
being able to figure out the cost of the between us which prompted me to leave him
training and how to register, but and create my own page, especially since I was
unfortunately at that time it was difficult to
travel there and what made it more difficult hoping to do my own magazine project. Then I
started to implement this page idea with one
was that I was going through a period of
health problems. I started to learn online of my colleagues and we started to work hard
and took part in training courses for young until we reached a lot of followers, but after
people several times and had the all that it was closed. In 2017, I took a youth
opportunity to become a sports journalist training course with an accredited certificate
on more than one site. My brother was the from a Spanish team called Extramadura
person who motivated me the most and my which is currently second class, and they had
uncle was an ex-football player. an agent in Egypt; Marketing company.

Vol.1, Issue 22, August 2020