The Moroccan under-20 team will face their Spanish counterpart on Sunday, September 28, as part of the first day of the group stage of the World Cup in this category, which starts this Saturday in Chile.
Navantia has almost finished the construction of the patrol vessel ordered by the Royal Moroccan Navy. The delivery of the Avante 1800 is scheduled for 2026.
The U20 Atlas Lions will face Spain on Sunday for their first match of the World Cup, which will take place from September 27 to October 20, 2025 in Chile. A few days before the match, Mohamed Ouahbi, coach of the Moroccan team, is serene and confident.
A new practice is being observed among Moroccan parents in Bilbao. They regularly bring their underage children from Morocco, then abandon them in the city so that they can be placed in centers for unaccompanied foreign minors and benefit from the reception network of the Provincial Council of Biscay.
Gianni Infantino, the President of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), met in New York with his counterpart from the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL), Alejandro Domínguez, to discuss increasing the number of teams participating in the 2030 World Cup from 48 to 64.
During the Spanish dating show "First Dates" aired on the Cuatro channel, Hamza, a 21-year-old young man of Moroccan origin, asked his guest Gisela, a 19-year-old Spanish woman, to convert to Islam. The sequence sparked a lively controversy on social media.
From the Fnideq coast in Morocco, Rafie Nadi, a 23-year-old Egyptian, embarked on a perilous journey to reach Europe by swimming, accompanied by a friend. For more than 40 hours, he floated in the Mediterranean, supported only by a buoy and flippers, and narrowly escaped death.
Following the recent veto imposed by Pedro Sanchez on any purchase of weapons from Israel, the Spanish Ministry of Defense has canceled the order for the SILAM high-mobility rocket launcher, based on the PULS system, of Israeli manufacture, recently acquired by Morocco.
The Spanish army is conducting military exercises off the Moroccan coast. These maneuvers called Sinergia 25 would be causing concern in Morocco where they are considered "large-scale military operations".
If there is a challenge that Morocco must meet before hosting the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN 2025) and the 2030 World Cup with Spain and Portugal, it is certainly the banishment of incivility, a daily scourge. A survey conducted in May reveals that the phenomenon has spread throughout the kingdom.
The United States has approved two $100 million projects to improve the facilities of the Rota naval base. A significant investment that suggests the announced transfer of this US base to Morocco is no longer on the agenda.
Journalist Ignacio Cembrero has criticized the silence of the authorities in Ceuta and the Spanish government in the face of the "consented" asphyxiation of the autonomous city by Morocco.