The consistently stellar quality of your comments over the years entitles you to turn a noun into a verb, but we are grateful nonetheless for the clarification.
I’m not a fan of theirs, but they are said to have won only a plurality of votes in the last elections, held over 15 years ago, after which they consolidated power. So most people in Gaza didn’t vote for them back then, and the vast majority there now didn’t vote for them, either.
I’m not a football expert, but Diggs has seemed like someone who could make the difficult or game-changing play in addition to the routine ones, providing “energy” to the team. Yes, the team will be successful if they move on and his replacement does his job and complements the other 10 on the field with him.