World Surf League Qualifying Series Kicks Off in Morocco’s Taghazout Bay

Seven Moroccan surfers are in the running, alongside big names in this sport. These are Noe Mar McGonagle, from Costa Rica, Kade Matson and Kei Kobayashi from the USA, Hiroto Arai from Japan, and Rafael Teixeira from Brazil.

The director of this competition, while congratulating the organizing team for holding the event, stressed that the Souss-Massa Region offers exceptional wave quality and is world-renowned, such as the "pointe des ancres" wave, which is part of the history of surfing in Morocco and internationally.

For his part, Ramzi Boukhiam, the first Moroccan and African surfer to qualify for the 2020 Olympics in Japan, was delighted to welcome so many great world surfers to the spots where he was born and raised. For him, Pro Taghazout Bay "brings together all the necessary ingredients to become a Challenger Series, and host a women’s division, and why not one day, become a stage of the Championship Tour".

For his part, the surfer, Redouane Regragui, while praising the quality of the waves and the favorable climatic conditions, said he was happy to gauge his sportsmanship by confronting the "potential of national and international surfers".