Morocco Coach to Announce Squad for Crucial Pre-AFCON Friendlies

Morocco-Senegal, this duel of the "Lions" is the first match in the series of friendly matches. In this context, the players selected by the national coach of Morocco will be known on October 1. This announcement will be made by Vahid Halilhodzic himself.

The selected players will play two friendly matches before the decisive matches for the qualification of the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations (CAN). After Morocco-Senegal, the first friendly match, a match scheduled for October 9, four days later, the "Atlas Lions" will host the team of the DRC for the second friendly match.

The Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) announced that the Bosnian technician will hold a videoconference on October 1 at 12:00 p.m., to announce the players selected for these matches. They will take place, moreover, in Rabat on the pitch of the Prince Moulay Abdellah sports complex.

The coach of the "Atlas Lions" is already preparing for the resumption. He has already selected some new players. We can mention his former protégé from FC Nantes, the revelation of this season in Ligue 1, Imran Louza, the player of the German club Paderborn, Abdelhamid Essabiri, or the player of the Dutch club FC Twente, Rafik Zakhnini.

It should be remembered that Morocco’s international matches were interrupted due to the spread of the coronavirus. Morocco was to cross paths with the Central African Republic in March for the last matchday of the first leg of the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, Hespress specifies.