Morocco Coach Halilhodzic Rejects Dinamo Zagreb, Focuses on World Cup Qualification

"I don’t know if I’m on the list of Dinamo Zagreb candidates, but I’m a coach who has a contract with Morocco. I’m leaving on a plane tonight," said the national team coach.

Leaving is therefore not on the agenda. The coach has a project that is close to his heart: to qualify the Atlas Lions for the 2022 World Cup, and thus become the first coach to achieve this feat for the fourth time, after leading Côte d’Ivoire, Algeria and Japan," reports Assabah, who points out that if the Croatian club tried to poach Vahid Halilhodzic, it was in knowledge of his talents and managerial abilities. The Bosnian had already taken over the reins of Dinamo Zagreb in 2010, a club with which the coach won the league title that same season.

Last Thursday, after spending four months of confinement with his family in the Paris suburbs, Vahid returned to Morocco, and will soon meet the president of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation, Fouzi Lekjaa. The meeting will focus on the national team’s preparatory phases for the CAN and the 2022 World Cup, the same source specifies.