Is it King Abdullah… no, no it’s a lookalike

A large audience packing a stadium for a football match in Saudi Arabia stampeded to take a close look at King Abdullah before realizing they made a mistake.

As they tried to push their way through, they were told the man who is sitting near the main podium in the stadium in Riyadh was a Syrian expatriate who resembles the 90-year-old King. Yet they kept pushing to have a photograph with the man, in his 50s.

“Many men in the stadium surrounded the Syrian expatriate, called Abdullah Mohammed, to be photographed with him given his strong resemblance to the Monarch,” the Arabic language daily Arar said.

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