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Rona Murad Ayzouk, 22 years old, spends much of her time on football, dribbling and bouncing the ball so fast that she even broke a world record in ball-control tricks, but found no attention as if she lives on an inaccessible planet called Syria.
At the Al-Jalaa Stadium in capital Damascus, Ayzouk spends her time getting trained on football and its tricks. The architecture engineering student inherited her love and obsession with football from her father, who is a football coach.
The love of football runs in the family. Before Ayzouk was born, her parents decided to call the newborn Ronaldinho after the famous Brazilian footballer. When it turned out she was a girl, the parents took the first four letters of the footballer’s name, calling her Rona.
Ayzouk is one of the energetic young Syrians who strive to have a life as normal as possible in a country ripped by more than 10 years of war with disappointments tracking them down in everything they do.
She told Xinhua she takes the ball with her everywhere she goes and watches numerous videos online to learn new tactics ever since she was enrolled in football teams in the country eights years ago.
Recently, she started becoming more interested in the ball-control tricks as her coach sends her videos of football tricks and asks her to make videos of her own during the pandemic to encourage people in quarantine.
“I have always watched videos to learn new technics and freestyle moves by female players. I really love the skills in ball-control tricks and I believe I have such skills that I would love to develop and work on always,” she said.
