CAF Confirms Walid Regragui as New Morocco National Team Coach

While eyes are riveted on the FRMF calendar which has planned to unveil the successor to Vahid Halilhodzic this Wednesday at the Mohammed VI complex in Salé, the African football body has overtaken it.

In an article titled "Local expertise on the benches of the 5 African countries qualified for the World Cup", CAF confided that "the 5 qualified countries on the continent will take part in the FIFA World Cup for the first time with coaches from the continent."

Regarding Morocco, the publication announces that Walid Regragui will be at the head of the Moroccan team during the World Cup in Qatar. Thus, the kingdom is "following in the footsteps of Senegal, Cameroon, Tunisia and Ghana," the CAF said. And to add: "his recent appointment by the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) as coach of the Atlas Lions is added to the list of the 4 other African countries that will have local technicians on their benches."

For the body, "a new page is being written for African football at the World Cup." "We can say that it is the hour of local technicians. The former international of the Atlas Lions with whom he totaled 45 caps, replaces Vahid Halilhodzic, fired earlier in August 2022," continues the same source.