Moroccan Star Hamdallah Apologizes for 2019 World Cup Qualifier Incident

The incident occurred in 2019. We remember, Hamdallah had left the group on the eve of the 2019 CAN, played in Egypt, after an altercation with Fayçal Fajr. If the Federation had at the time invoked "a back injury", public opinion quickly made the link with what was known as the "penalty gate".

A few days before the publication of the final list of the national coach for the World Cup in Qatar, the player has returned to the facts, acknowledging that this episode was "a black spot" for him and a "mistake whose repercussions he did not measure."

The striker, who had not been called up since this affair, has apologized to the Moroccans, the leaders of the FRMF and the players, and claims that his current relations with his teammates in the national team are excellent.

Some observers see through this mea culpa the signs of a return of the player to the den of the Atlas Lions. Moreover, the Saudi press had reported a call-up from the coach for the gathering of November 13 next, in the run-up to the World Cup.