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Mina Samir, a 16-year-old from Alexandria, was on the brink of losing all hope to become a professional soccer player in major Egyptian clubs. Despite his passion and performance in the game that earned him the nickname “Mina Ronaldo,” after the famous soccer player, Egyptian club coaches simply refused to sign him on.
Samir thought the refusal was because he was a Copt and that he, like many Copts before him, would never find a place on the soccer field. That changed in June when he enrolled in the first soccer academy for the training of Copts. Three months later, he joined the soccer team formed by the academy.
