Nicola Hadwa


Nicola Hadwa Shahwan is a PalestineChilean commercial engineer and football manager. He was the first professional coach of the Palestine national football team.
He has criticized US imperialism on TeleSur, HispanTV and Sputnik. He has participated in scholarly conferences sponsored by institutions including the University of Valparaíso, and on how emergent economies have countered US weight around the world.

Football career

In 2002, he was hired by Palestine Football Association to coach Palestine. According him, the reasons why that country's Football Association contacted him was because he was the first one professional coach in the history of Palestinian football.
In 2004, he renounced to Club Deportivo Palestino.
On 3 December 2020, Hadwa joined Concón National.

Political career

In 2017, Hadwa launched a campaign to reach a seat in the Chamber of Deputies of Chile with the support of the Progressive Party then led by Marco Enríquez Ominami.