The Moroccan national football team is at the top of the podium of the most expensive national teams in the Arab world. It would be worth $279 million, thus surpassing Algeria and Egypt.
The Moroccan national football team will face Ghana on Tuesday evening, on the occasion of a friendly match in preparation for the World Cup qualifiers. One of the last opportunities for Vahid Halilhodzic and the players to convince on the level of preparation.
The players summoned by Vahid Halilhodzic to the preparation camp for the two friendly matches on June 8 and 12 against Ghana and Burkina Faso are mostly present at the Mohammed VI Football Center in Maâmoura. Some like Achraf Hakimi will only join the group starting on Tuesday.
Moroccan international Hakim Ziyech is overjoyed since his triumph with Chelsea in the Champions League thanks to a goal by Kai Harvetz. The Atlas Lion still can’t believe he has won the first title of his career.
Morocco won the Arab Futsal Cup on Saturday, May 29 in Cairo, beating the host country 4-0. A new triumph for the Atlas Lions who have shown their supremacy in the competition.
As part of the preparations for the friendly matches and even the international competitions that Moroccan players will have to play, Vahid Halilodzic is thinking about how to build a homogeneous group capable of winning. To achieve this, the national coach is in full seduction mode to convince certain dual nationals whose profile matches his criteria, so that they join the Atlas Lions.
The Moroccan-Senegalese player Issa Diop has not yet responded to the request of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) to wear the jersey of the Atlas Lions. The player, who plays as a defender at West Ham, prefers the French team, while Didier Deschamps does not seem to involve him in his future plans.
Fired from Galatasaray, Moroccan international Younès Belhanda is said to have agreed to join the club where he started his career: Montpellier. He is expected to sign a three-year contract, according to some indiscretions.
The summer transfer market will be very lively for the Atlas Lions, as is the case for Moroccan international Nordin Amrabat. The player, whose departure from Al-Nassr is no longer in doubt, could relaunch himself at Al-Rayyan, who are very interested in his profile.
The Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) is facing other difficulties, as the Moroccan airspace is closed until June 10 to certain European countries where many Moroccan internationals expected at the preparation camp are based. These include France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands or Germany.
After his forced departure from Galatasaray, Moroccan international Younès Belhanda is about to return to the Saudi championship. Announced in France, Greece or Spain, he would be closer to Al-Hilal.
The Belgian-Moroccan footballer Anouar Aït El Hadj has made his choice, even if he has not yet officially communicated the country with which he will play in the national team. Author of 3 goals in 21 matches in the Belgian Jupiler League, under the colors of Anderlecht, his entourage supports that the 18-year-old player has a preference for Belgium, rather than Morocco.