CAS Rejects Munir El Haddadi’s Appeal to Play for Morocco National Team

7 November 2020 – bySylvanus@Bladi · 1 min read

Munir El Haddadi will not join the Moroccan national team. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected, on Friday, the appeal of the player and the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) to change his sports nationality.

"The appeal was dismissed by CAS and the decision rendered by FIFA was confirmed," states the supreme authority of world sport. It recalls that the appeal had been filed following the decision rendered by the FIFA Players’ Status Commission on September 23 not to authorize Munir El Haddadi to change national federation, namely to leave the Spanish federation to join the Moroccan federation.

This decision undermines the optimism of the Moroccan coach, Vahid Halilhodzic. "I spoke this morning with my president (Fouzi Lekjaa, president of the FRMF), and there are many positive things. It is also necessary to underline the very correct behavior of the Spanish federation despite this dispute," he explained on Thursday.

The reasons for the decision remain, for the moment, unknown.

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Football FIFA Royal Moroccan Football Federation Munir El Haddadi