The club invited Zaid Abdel-Muhsen Alghadab, his father Osama and brother Mohammad to the Spanish capital on Saturday night as part of their campaign to support refugees arriving in Europe.

There was global outrage earlier this month after shocking footage emerged showing Hungarian camerawoman Petra Laszlo kicking children and tripping Osama up as he carried a terrified Zaid across a field on the Hungarian-Serbian border.

The Alghadab family finally arrived in Spain last week - with staff at a school for football coaches in the Madrid suburb of Getafe in Spain tracking down the devoted father - and offering to help him rebuild his life by giving him a job and accommodation.

Responding to Laszlo's claims that she thought she was being attacked, Mr Alghadab told MailOnline: 'People would not attack the media because the media were very nice to the refugees.'

In a letter to Hungarian newspaper Magyar Nemzet, Laszlo, 40, said she was 'truly sorry'.

'The camera was shooting, hundreds of migrants broke through the police cordon, one of them rushed to me and I was scared,' she wrote.

Claiming something then 'snapped in me', she added: 'I just thought that I was being attacked and I had to protect myself.'

Soon after the footage surfaced, Laszlo was fired from her job as a camerawoman for Hungarian news site N1TV, which is run by the anti-immigration far-right Jobbik party. 

She also faces criminal charges for breaching the peace.

'It's hard to make good decisions at a time when people are in a panic and many hundreds of people rushing. I'm sorry about what happened... I take responsibility for it,' she said.

'I'm not a heartless, racist children-kicking [camerawoman]. I do not deserve the political witch hunts against me, nor the smears, [or] the death threats... I am truly sorry,' she added.

Last week heartwarming photographs emerged showing the Alghadab arriving at Barcelona train station, from where they began the final leg of their journey on to start a new life in Madrid.

While Mr Alghadab has been offered employment at CENAFE - a school for football coaches in the suburb of Getafe - his wife and two other children remain in Turkey

CENAFE and the Spanish authorities are apparently working on getting the trio over to Madrid to join the rest of their family.

The school said it made the kind offer after its president, Miguel Ángel Galán, witnessed Mohsen's plight in the Spanish media.

'When we saw the story of Mohsen published in the newspapers we felt very bad about it,' Galán told El País, explaining how he had managed to contact the father and son via a Spanish journalist.

'We are a centre for coaches and we like to help everyone who works in this area,' he added.

Mohsen, Zaid and another of Mohsen's sons are now on a train from Munich, Germany, which is set to arrive in Madrid at midnight on Wednesday, according to school official, Luis Miguel Pedraza.

A school coaching graduate who speaks Arabic is on the train with them,The Local reports.

(dailymail.co.uk)