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Nov 28, 2022 · Morocco will play the quarter-finals of the World Cup for the first time in its history. The Atlas Lions shocked Spain in the round of 16 with a 3-0 win on penalties on Tuesday (6 December) hoping to continue their magic run with an historic achievement: Becoming the first African country to qualify for the semi-finals of the World Cup.
- Morocco: The only Team to Score Against Morocco
- Hakimi, Ziyech & En-Nesyri on The Break
- Regragui: 'Every Moroccan Is A Moroccan'
- Bono's Beautiful Day
Strictly speaking, Morocco have not conceded a single goal by an opposition player in the seven matches since Regragui took over. After beating Chile 2-0, drawing 0-0 with Paraguay and beating Georgia 3-0 in warm-ups, Morocco opened their Qatar World Cup campaign with another impressive defensive performance in the 0-0 draw with Croatia, before stu...
Morocco aren't the only team to defend deep at this World Cup, but they do offer a threat on the break which other "smaller" teams don't, not least through Achraf Hakimi. For several years now, with Borussia Dortmund, Inter Milan and now Paris Saint-Germain, the 24-year-old has been raiding up and down the wing with abandon, and he's been one of th...
Perhaps Regragui's biggest achievement has been ending the rows between his Moroccan-born players and those from the wider diaspora. "Before this World Cup, we had a lot of problems with the guys born in Europe and the guys born in Morocco," he admitted. "But today I think it shows to the world that every Moroccan is a Moroccan." Hakimi, for exampl...
"We knew we would go to penalties with one of the best goalkeepers in the world so we had better chances of advancing," said Regragui, after Bounou, known as Bono, had saved two penalties. But it wasn't the first time the 31-year-old had pulled off footballing heroics; in March 2021, he became the first goalkeeper to score a goal in Spain's La Liga...
Dec 13, 2022 · Despite being ranked the world's No. 22 squad, Morocco has gone undefeated so far in Qatar, knocking out European heavyweights to set up Wednesday's semifinal against defending champion France....
Dec 14, 2022 · Morocco's Cinderella run at the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar came to an end finishing the tournament in fourth place following a 2-1 defeat to Croatia in their bronze-medal match on Saturday (17 December). The match opened with a bang with Croatia landing the first blow seven minutes into the contest courtesy of a Josko Gvardiol goal.
Dec 14, 2022 · Morocco will be back in action on Saturday in the third-place playoff before they head home. But their run in Qatar made World Cup history and generated an outpouring of pride among Arab...
Dec 11, 2022 · Morocco's success in becoming the first African team to reach the World Cup semi-finals can "galvanise" the continent, according to one of African football's top officials.
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Morocco is now the last of those left standing and is hoping to beat star-studded Portugal at 10 a.m. ET Saturday to become the first African nation to ever make the semifinals of the men’s ...
