He won sympathy from around the world when he was tripped over as he carried his son across the Hungarian border but refugee Osama Abdul Mohsen is still awaiting the quiet life he was promised seven months ago when a Spanish sports club helped him flee to the Mediterranean country.

Mr Mohsen's story went viral after he was filmed being tripped up by camerawoman Petra Laszlo as he fled police near the Hungarian border with Serbia last September. He was carrying his youngest son Zaid, then aged seven, in his arms at the time, and the two fell sprawling on the ground.

Footage of the incident helped bring him to the attention of a football training school in Getafe, on the outskirts of Madrid, which found him work as a liaison officer. Zaid, now a year older, as well as Mohsen's 17-year-old son Mohammed, who was in Germany at the time, now live with their father.

However, while mementos from the footballing world that brought the Syrian refugees to Spain remain strewn around their flat, Mr Mohsen admits that he has not yet been able to properly settle.

Syrian refugee Osama Abdul Mohsen's story went viral after he was filmed being tripped up by camerawoman Petra Laszlo as he fled police near the Hungarian border with Serbia last September. Following the incident, a Spanish football club offered him a job and to re-house him with his sons, including his youngest Zaid (above)

Osama Abdul Mohsen is still awaiting the quiet life he was promised seven months ago when a Spanish sports club helped him flee to the Mediterranean country. He is pictured on a train in Villaverde, Spain, with son Zaid

Mr Mohsen has become something of a media star, as one of the few feel-good stories to emerge from Europe's migrant crisis. But he remains 'tired' from all the attention and is struggling to pick up the Spanish language. He is pictured above attending Spanish lessons at a YMCA social centre in Getafe, outside Madrid

The media attention has not yet helped him reunite with half of his family, even though he says he has filed all the paperwork to apply for their visas. Mr Mohsen is pictured picking up groceries at his local shop in Spain

'I need to relax more, I'm very tired,' he says after claiming to do up to three interviews a day.

Mr Mohsen has become something of a media star, as one of the few feel-good stories to emerge from Europe's migrant crisis. Hundreds of thousands of refugees are still trying to flee conflict and poverty in the Middle East and beyond. Yet the strain and worry of recent months is evident.

The media attention has not yet helped him reunite with half of his family, even though he says he has filed all the paperwork to apply for their visas.

Mr Mohsen's wife and two other children remain in Mersin, southern Turkey. The family left the war-torn Syrian town of Deir el-Zor together around four years ago but while Mr Mohsen and his two sons were able to be re-homed in Spain, the three other family members remain missing.

And although Mr Mohsen is grateful for his new life – there is no escaping the fact that it is somewhat makeshift.

The apartment that well-wishers have housed him in is adorned with someone else's trinkets, including rows of encyclopaedias in Spanish - a language that he still struggles to speak.

Mr Mohsen's story went viral after he was filmed being tripped up by camerawoman Petra Laszlo as he fled police near the Hungarian border with Serbia last September. He was carrying his young son Zaid at the time

Zaid, the youngest son of Osama Abdul Mohsen, sits on a sofa at their home in Getafe, outside Madrid

Mr Mohsen is reflected in a glass inside his new home in Getafe which was sorted for him by Spanish sports club Villaverde-Boetticher when they offered him a job after discovering he used to coach a team in Syria

The apartment that well-wishers have housed Mr Mohsen in has a pennant of Getafe soccer school on the wall

A Spanish encyclopaedia, a model of Santiago Bernabeu stadium and Spanish homework papers are seen on a table inside the home of Osama Abdul Mohsen, who is struggling to learn the language after fleeing Syria

Despite the language difficulties, Mr Mohsen says he 'sees his future' in Spain, with his eyes lighting as he talks, in broken English, about the local junior team he sometimes helps train, Villaverde-Boetticher.

The loving father is also proud of the way his sons have settled into school and learned good enough Spanish to help translate for him.

The family's love of soccer has brought them some solace as they wait for news. Mohammed plays in a local team too, while Zaid got to walk into Real Madrid's Bernabeu stadium clutching superstar Cristiano Ronaldo's hand.

Mr Mohsen, meanwhile, is thankful his soccer links helped him find work in a country where unemployment still runs at over 20 per cent.

The Spanish sports academy offered Mr Mohsen a home and help in finding a job when they heard he used to coach a first division team in Syria.

Mr Mohsen (centre) celebrates victory with his junior team's players after a soccer match in Villaverde, Spain

Mr Mohsen, a Syrian refugee, whistles during a training session with his junior team in Villaverde last month

Mr Mohsen is seen giving out instructions to his players after being handed a job by a Spanish soccer school

A football training school in Getafe, on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain, offered Mr Mohsen work as a liaison officer after discovering he helped work with a football outfit in Syria before he fled his war-torn homeland

He hopes his experience coaching in Spain will one day benefit Syria as well.

'Maybe in future I can take this information for my country,' he said.

Spain's government said at the end of last year it would accept more than 17,000 refugees as part of EU-wide efforts to resettle asylum seekers.

So far it has only taken in 18 of those of 200 it pledged to welcome from Italy and Greece, according to the latest European Commission data, though more are expected to arrive from this month.

Spain will also take in 100 Syrian migrants from Turkey following a new EU pact to block the flow of migrants entering illegally through Greece and process them directly with Ankara instead.

It is unclear how that EU deal will affect Mr Mohsen's situation.

The family left the war-torn Syrian town of Deir el-Zor around four years ago but while Mr Mohsen and his two sons were able to be re-homed in Spain, his wife and other children remain missing. He is pictured with Zaid

Spain's government said at the end of last year it would accept more than 17,000 refugees as part of EU-wide efforts to resettle asylum seekers. Mr Mohsen kicks a ball during a training session at his new job in Spain

Mr Mohsen and his son Zaid, who is now aged eight, watch a soccer training session in Villaverde, Spain