With all football activity suspended in Palestine due to the Second Intifada; a bold plan was hatched by the Palestine F...ootball Association. Hadwa would be given the remit to build a Palestinian team that would be entered in Chile’s old Tercera División- its former third tier and the top level of amateur football in the country.
Hadwa who had to attend to his duties as national team coach appointed Leonardo Vinés Carvajal to oversee the team. A 29 player roster was cobbled together from an initial training session of 200- all of Palestinian heritage- mostly students with very little experience in the professional world of football.