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Al-Wehdat SC — The Club Built from Temporary Housing
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Al-Wehdat SC, Jordanian football, Palestinian identity and one of the Middle East’s most powerful community clubs are at the center of this episode of Why We Love This Club . Chris Horwedel traces Al-Wehdat’s story back to 1956, when a football club grew from a youth center inside New Amman Camp, a refugee settlement built for Palestinians displaced from their homes. The club’s name comes from the housing “units” that gave the camp its identity, turning something designed as temporary relief into one of Jordan’s most permanent institutions. The episode explores Al-Wehdat’s rise into a 17-time Jordanian league champion , its complicated relationship with Palestinian identity in Jordan and…