Migrant Senegalese teenager wrestling for Canary Islands future

Cheik Ndaa, 13-year-old, trains in Guarazoca on the Canary Island of El Hierro, Spain, November 7, 2023. REUTERS/Borja Suarez

VALVERDE, Spain (Reuters) - Amid cheers from the crowd, 13-year-old Senegalese migrant Cheik Ndaa tricks his opponent into falling over and wins his first tournament in Lucha Canaria, a traditional form of wrestling in Spain's Canary Islands.

Ndaa, who arrived on a wooden fishing boat in July, has picked up the sport quickly thanks to its similarity with a form of wrestling he practised in his birth place Dakar.