The Moroccan football team will have to do without its star striker Youssef En-Nesyri , who will undergo surgery in the very near future, which will keep him away from the pitch for several months.
The 23rd round of Botola 1 and D2 will be postponed and will not take place this weekend. The reason is the visit of the Pope scheduled in Casablanca and Rabat on March 30 and 31.
National coach Hervé Renard returned yesterday to Morocco’s defeat against the Argentine team in the friendly match that took place at the Grand Stade de Tanger.
A rather uninteresting match tonight between the Moroccan team and Argentina with many fouls, yellow cards on both sides and the wind that bothered the players, the spectators and even the cameramen.
The reason given for Messi’s absence from the friendly match between the Argentine team (we would be tempted to add "bis") and the Atlas Lions, namely an injury (or pain) in the pubis, is not convincing. Some talk of a secret agreement between the Moroccan and Argentine federations, others of a desire to spare themselves for future important matches.
Here we are. Finally. After several weeks of suspense, particularly on the presence or not of Lionel Messi, the football match between Morocco and Argentina is taking place tonight in Tangier and will be broadcast live on television.
The Royal Moroccan Football Federation has just terminated the functions of Mark Wotte, coach of the Olympic football team.
All this fuss for nothing. After weeks of rumors, player Lionel Messi will ultimately not be present at the match that is to oppose Morocco to Argentina, which greatly annoys the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF).
There will ultimately be no Africa Cup of Nations this year for the Atlas Cubs, nor the Olympics next year, despite their 1-0 victory yesterday over the team from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Santiago Solari, who is no longer the Merengues’ coach, has apparently decided to take a vacation. His destination was the same as Karim Benzema’s a few days earlier: Marrakech.
The Saudi club Al-Nasr would have in a very official and somewhat tactless way warned FIFA that Nordin Amrabat should not play in the friendly match against Argentina on March 26 in Tangier. It is (indirectly and "more directly") asking the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) not to line him up.
He’s not coming after all. The player Lionel Messi will not make the trip to Morocco next week for the match the Argentines are to play against the Atlas Lions.