Observatory’s Sacred Heart College silently breeds a new Mo Salah in Fady Tiam Tarawneh
OBSERVATORY -– A sacred soccer wizard is being bred at Sacred Heart College.
Sacred Heart College in Observatory is well known for its high education standards and now it has given birth to a football star.
Fady Tiam Tarawneh, a 14-year-old in Grade 8 is being touted as the next Mo Salah, the Egyptian international football stawho plays for Liverpool. Fady is making waves in football circles in Alexandra and is in trials with various Absa Premiership sides.
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He was born in Johannesburg from parents of Egyptian and Jordanian origin and plays for Alex Royal Tigers SC in the Alexandra Northrand Local Football Association (LFA) league. Fady who currently lives in Norwood took Transition FC in Sandton by storm before finding a home in Alex in one of the most active LFA leagues in the Safa Joburg Region.
It was precisely this reason why his father, Saleh Tarawneh from Jordan and his mother, Lilian Magal from Egypt, a businesswoman, moved him to the Alex Northrand LFA league.
“We moved him to Alex because we wanted him to eat, sleep and dream football,” said his father.
“Alex is the only seriously active league that I know of in Johannesburg. Go there every weekend and the boys and girls are kicking a soccer ball. I must say that is one of the most organised LFA leagues I have seen.”
Fady is a former Fairways Primary School learner in Melrose and then moved to Sacred Heart in Grade 4. He cut his teeth in soccer at age nine when he joined Wanderers Warriors in Illovo and played for almost two seasons before joining Balfour Park Alexandra Football Club and later on Transition.
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Fady is a big fan of Orlando Pirates and Liverpool and is looking forward to a trip to Germany next year with Transition and Royal Tigers. “I love football and want to make a professional career out of it,” said the young man who looks destined for much bigger footballing things.
And he proved this by scoring three goals in a trial match at Bidvest Wits, the first one in just two minutes of getting onto the pitch.
