Belgium v Morocco: Can’t choose ‘between my father and my mother’

Ben Ali Abdelmalik, centre, in Molenbeek, Brussels, said it is impossible for him to choose a side between Belgium and Morocco [Nicolas Fouqué/Al Jazeera]

Brussels, Belgium – On a warm, blue-skied Sunday afternoon, Aït Ahmed Abdelouhad, 46, was kicking a football around a small concrete football field with his eight-year-old son.

Nearby, teenagers ran across a basketball court while others zoomed by on skateboards and families played table tennis in the park in the neighbourhood of Saint Gilles.