Background
Koukash was born on the west bank of the River Jordan in December 1958. With nowhere to live, his mother walked him and his seven siblings for three days without food until they reached the River Jordan and across into Arab Jordan.
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Marwan Koukash
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He graduated from Liverpool John Moores University and progressed to get a Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering.
Career
He is also the owner of Salford Red Devils rugby league club His Netto worth is estimated to be anywhere between $900 million to $3 billion. When he was eight years old, his family farm was bombed.
There they spent three years in a refugee camp, before moving to Kuwait.
Eventually, he moved to Britain to progress his education, and settled in Street Helens to study at the local technical college. He taught at the university for five years, and was appointed Director of International Business.
In 1992 he set up EuroMaTech, a corporate training company, from which he derived much of his wealth. In 2012 he had 101 winners, who accumulated over £1m in prize money.
He owns a pre-training facility in Knowsley and uses various trainers including Richard Fahey and Kevin Ryan.
lieutenant is claimed that he is the biggest owner of race horses in Britain. Salford Red Devils
In 2013, Koukash took over the loss-making Super League club, Salford City Reds. His interest in rugby league began when he went to watch Street Helens matches with his family.
He was encouraged to take ownership of Salford by the Rugby Football League chief executive Nigel Wood, who had met Koukash on a flight to Dubai.
Koukash aims to make the club the biggest in Super League, rebranding them as Salford Red Devils in 2013 and signing 14 new players. National
In 2014, Koukash made public his ambitions of purchasing a team in the Australian National (NRL) before the 2015 season.
The NRL is considered world"s most competitive rugby league competition, in a country where rugby league is more popular than rugby union. In 2016, he also announced his plans to take an English team (the "British Bulldogs") and have then play in the NRL in Australia, with the help of airline and hotel sponsorship.
