The Moroccan national football team is made up of several dual nationals who have opted for Morocco over Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy and many others. Behind these sometimes difficult choices is a real lobbying carried out by the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF).
For the first time since 1986, Morocco has qualified for the round of 16 , after its victory over Canada (2-1) on Thursday. This historic victory, the kingdom owes in large part to its dual-national players.
A young Moroccan reacted to a tweet by Rocío de Meer, a deputy from the Spanish far-right party Vox, who seemed to criticize Moroccans in Almeria for celebrating Morocco’s victory over Belgium in the World Cup in Qatar.
The police arrested on Wednesday in Gernika (Basque Country) a Moroccan accused of jihadist indoctrination. The defendant had been living in Biscay for several years and was in an irregular administrative situation.
The murder earlier this week of two children aged 9 and 13 in a hotel in Marrakech has not finished revealing all its secrets. At the current stage of the investigation, all the elements point to the victims’ father, a French national of Moroccan origin, as the main suspect.
The Moroccan who had rammed police officers from the Bac during a police check in Stains (Seine-Saint-Denis) in August 2021 saw his two-year prison sentence handed down by the Bobigny court confirmed by the Paris Court of Appeal.
The mayor of Brussels, Philippe Close, asks not to stigmatize the Moroccan community for the riots that broke out on Sunday in the city, after Morocco’s victory over Belgium in the World Cup football.
Moroccans in Montreal are eagerly awaiting the match between Morocco and Canada, a team already eliminated from the World Cup.
From Morocco to France via Italy, the 52-year-old Moroccan El Rhalia Bougrine has a career that inspires admiration. Over the years, she has become the owner of a restaurant and a colorful figure in the Gambetta neighborhood of Montpellier.
Saiki Weesa, one of the members of the Japanese K-Pop group that has become famous in Japan and Korea, demonstrated great pride in his Moroccan and Korean origins when receiving an award.
Yassine Sellika, the Brussels Public Prosecutor, supported Morocco against Belgium in the match that pitted the two countries against each other on Sunday as part of the second day of the group stage of the World Cup in Qatar. He was spotted in a video recorded shortly before the riots that rocked Brussels after Belgium’s defeat.
Maryame Atiq Ez-zity , 24, has just made her debut with the Moroccan women’s national football team. Born in Morocco, but residing in Veguellina (León) since the age of 5, she trained with the team of this city before joining the Atlas Lionesses.