Youssef El Arabi will be part of the Atlas Lions who will play the matches as part of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) qualifiers. The player is already on the extended list of the coach, Vahid Halilhodzic.
The victory promised by the national coach, Vahid Halilhodzic, did not ultimately take place yesterday at the Stade d’Honneur in Oujda. The Moroccans drew against their Libyan counterparts in this friendly match.
From August 17 to 27, 2019, the under-23 national football team will be in a training camp in Rabat, announces the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF).
The return to reality, after the humiliating exit from the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (CAN), is quite trying for several Moroccan internationals. While for some it is difficult to reconnect with competition, others, on the other hand, have lost their starting place within their club.
According to Saudi media, Hervé Renard has signed his contract with the Saudi Football Federation. The French coach would have signed for a period of two and a half years.
While Nordin Amrabat has just been excluded from the list of selected players, Abderrazak Hamdallah is returning in great pomp to his Saudi club, "Al Nasr". Indeed, the latter has seen his salary double for the remainder of his contract until 2021.
Eliminated prematurely from the 2019 CAN in the round of 16, the Moroccan national football team has nevertheless made a leap of six places in the FIFA ranking. From 47th place, Morocco is now in 41st place, behind Algeria.
It seems that the performance of the "Atlas Lions" at the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) in Egypt has worked against them. After Karim Al Ahmadi and Younes Belhanda, it is now Nordin Amrabat’s turn to be sidelined by his club.
Moroccan international Fayçal Fajr has just spoken out for the first time since the early exit of the Atlas Lions by the Benin Squirrels.
King Mohammed VI has just sent a message of congratulations to Algerian President Abdelkader Bensalah after Algeria’s victory on Friday, July 19, in the final of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) in Egypt.
The President of "Debout la France" explodes with anger at the incidents recorded in several cities during the celebration of Algeria’s victory over Nigeria on July 14, 2019, and calls on Algerians who prefer their country to France to "return to Algeria".
France is taking security measures in Paris, Lyon, Marseille, and Montbéliard as well as in the departments of Ain and Côte-d’Or to prevent unrest in case of an Algeria victory in the final of the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) on Friday, July 19, 2019.