Belgium Secures Three Promising Belgo-Moroccan Youth Players, Outmaneuvering Morocco

The young goalkeeper Elias Mago, the central defender Samy Tory and the striker Camil Mmae slip through the fingers of the FMRF. These three players were part of the list of dual nationals followed by the Federation and with whom it had even started negotiations. But without counting on the Royal Belgian Football Federation which organized an international tournament in Spain to which it invited some young players of Moroccan origin. Belgium took advantage of the non-selection of these players by the Moroccan U20 national team for the African Cup to recruit the trio, reports Assabah.

Elias Mago, Samy Tory and Camil Mmae play with the U21s of Standard de Liège. They were all at the last gatherings of the Moroccan U17s, but with the recent changes that the young Moroccan teams’ lists have undergone, many dual nationals have preferred to seize the hand extended by the European countries. But some have received pressure from their club which opposed their decision to wear the colors of Morocco.

According to the daily Assabah, Samy Tory and Elias Mago did everything to play with the Atlas Lions, but the fact of having been excluded by the national selectors recently weighed heavily in favor of the Belgian federation.