This Saturday evening, Vahid Halilhodzic’s Atlas Lions will host Burkina Faso at the Prince Moulay Abdallah sports complex. A last friendly match that should allow the final adjustments before facing the World Cup qualifiers (Qatar 2022).
The Moroccan national football team will face Ghana on Tuesday evening, on the occasion of a friendly match in preparation for the World Cup qualifiers. One of the last opportunities for Vahid Halilhodzic and the players to convince on the level of preparation.
Moroccan international Amine Harit could leave Schalke 04 this summer. The player is on the radar of two Serie A Italian clubs.
Mustapha Hadji , the former midfielder of the Atlas Lions and current assistant to Vahid Halilhodzic, the coach of Morocco, is in the sights of one of the future buyers of FC Girondins de Bordeaux. He would like to acquire the services of one of the best African players in history for his Scouting team, but neither the FRMF nor Vahid Halilhodzic want to part with him.
The players summoned by Vahid Halilhodzic to the preparation camp for the two friendly matches on June 8 and 12 against Ghana and Burkina Faso are mostly present at the Mohammed VI Football Center in Maâmoura. Some like Achraf Hakimi will only join the group starting on Tuesday.
National coach Vahid Halilhodzic will call up the Moroccan internationals of Sevilla FC, Youssef En-Nesyri, Yassine Bounou and Munir El Haddadi , for the next gathering of the Atlas Lions. This is what the Andalusian club announced on its Twitter account.
As part of the preparations for the friendly matches and even the international competitions that Moroccan players will have to play, Vahid Halilodzic is thinking about how to build a homogeneous group capable of winning. To achieve this, the national coach is in full seduction mode to convince certain dual nationals whose profile matches his criteria, so that they join the Atlas Lions.
The Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) is facing other difficulties, as the Moroccan airspace is closed until June 10 to certain European countries where many Moroccan internationals expected at the preparation camp are based. These include France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands or Germany.
The Atlas Lions face Ghana and Burkina Faso in friendly matches in June that serve as preparation for the 2022 World Cup qualifiers. Among the new dual-national players that national coach Vahid Halilhodzic is about to summon is Mohamed Ihattaren .
Moroccan player Nordin Amrabat, who has repeatedly expressed the wish to return to the Moroccan national football team, has received a favorable response from Vahid Halilhodzic, but there are prerequisites to be met. The player will have to leave Al-Nassr, the Saudi club he currently plays for, for a European club.
The Belgian player of Moroccan origin Anouar Ait El Hadj is on the radar of coach Vahid Halilhodzic, but he is not the only one. At 18 years old, the young gem of Sporting Anderlecht is also being tracked by the coach of the Red Devils, who plans to recruit him.
The international and right-back of the Atlas Lions, Nabil Dirar, is now on the list of "undesirable" players of the coach Vahid Halilhodzic who did not appreciate that the player was absent from the last gathering of the national team.