Abdessamad Ezzalzouli reportedly tried to convince Lamine Yamal to join the Atlas Lions, as he did with Brahim Diaz. But the 16-year-old Spanish prodigy of Moroccan father and Equatorial Guinean mother has ultimately chosen to play for La Roja.
Algeria wants to compete with Morocco and Spain by implementing a mega project in the agricultural sector, particularly tomato production.
Fouzi Lekjaâ , president of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF), looked back on the dismissal of Franco-Bosnian coach Vahid Halilhodžić and his replacement by Moroccan Walid Regragui, three months before the final of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Without failing to mention the exploit of the Atlas Lions at this major sporting event and the joint organization of the 2030 World Cup by Morocco, Spain and Portugal.
The Gibraltar Strait Tunnel , which will connect Morocco to Spain and by extension Africa to Europe, is far from being a reality. The project is still at a standstill and requires new technical studies and the mobilization of a million dollars for its implementation.
In the perspective of organizing the 2030 FIFA World Cup, alongside Spain and Portugal, Morocco is working on the development of its infrastructure.
A candidate for the co-organization of the 2030 World Cup alongside Morocco and Portugal, Spain is in difficulty. UEFA and FIFA suspect the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) of political interference and have set an ultimatum for the Spanish government to clarify the placement of the RFEF under trusteeship, accused of corruption.
While the Spanish army will take possession of its modern Eurofighters in 2026, Morocco plans to receive its first Mirage 2000-9s in 2027. The two neighboring countries are competing for air superiority.
Targeted by several complaints for issuing bad checks and corruption, the third deputy mayor of the commune of Tétouan, who was also a former advisor in the cabinet of Mohamed Ben Abdelkader, was arrested on Tuesday morning upon his arrival at Rabat-Salé airport. He had taken refuge in Spain to escape justice.
The cost of the project to build a tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar that will connect Morocco and Spain, but also Africa and Europe, before the 2030 World Cup that the two countries are co-hosting with Portugal, is now known.
At Barça, the Atlas Lions are in vogue. The Spanish club is making Moroccan internationals Noussair Mazraoui, a player from the German team Bayern Munich, and Sofyan Amrabat from Manchester United its priority for the summer transfer window.
The Chinese tire company Sentury Tire has redirected a major investment initially intended for a new plant in Spain to its plant located in Tangier.
The phenomenon of the Narcolanchas, these ultra-fast boats used by cannabis trafficking networks to transport drugs from Morocco to Spain, has taken on an alarming scale in the Strait of Gibraltar in recent years.