Morocco’s U17 team faces Egypt this Tuesday for the final day of the Africa Cup of Nations . A decisive match for the defending champions who are aiming for another qualification to the quarter-finals.
The 19-year-old defender, a true revelation of Stade Rennais and African champion with the Atlas Lions , is on Dortmund’s radar. Dortmund sees him as the future pillar of their central defense for the upcoming season.
Getafe defender, Abdelkabir Abqar , highlights the deep-rooted attachment of dual nationals to Morocco’s national team. Ahead of facing Real Madrid, the international player recalls that national identity is passed down through one’s roots, beyond the place of birth or residence.
Thanks to their Moroccan striker Tawfik Bentayeb, the championship’s current top scorer , ESTAC Troyes sit at the top of Ligue 2. The attacking duo he forms with Mathys Détourbet is driving the club’s promotion ambitions.
The Moroccan Football Federation will meet on Thursday to decide Walid Regragui’s fate . While the body officially denies any departure, internal sources claim that an amicable separation agreement has already been reached.
The recent successes of Moroccan football find their origin in a failure assessment made in the mid-2000s. Nasser Larguet, a key figure in this restructuring, explains how a royal vision and a complete overhaul of training have allowed the Kingdom to move from successive disappointments to a World Cup semi-final, based on state-of-the-art infrastructure and unprecedented professional rigor.
The profile of two young Moroccan talents trained at the Mohammed VI football academy (AM6) interests Lille and Strasbourg.
The English club Liverpool FC is preparing to cast its nets on a young Moroccan talent: Abdelhamid Ait Boudlal , captain of the under-17 national team.
Former director of the Mohammed VI Football Academy and former technical director of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation, Nasser Larguet looks back on the potential of this training center that has produced great talents like Nayef Aguerd or Azzedine Ounahi. According to him, Morocco has every chance of winning the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Côte d’Ivoire.
The Mohammed VI Academy is today a benchmark training center on the continental and regional level for young people who wish to pursue a career in football.
Moroccan Nasser Larguet , former technical director (DTN) of Morocco, and holding the same position in Saudi Arabia since May 2022 after his departure from Olympique de Marseille (OM), looks back on his experience in Morocco with the creation of the Mohammed VI academy, the epic of the Atlas Lions at the World Cup in Qatar, the 2024 CAN, etc.
Youssef En Nesyri , 25, is an indispensable player today for FC Seville. The newspaper Marca has just made a portrait of him, describing him as a mysterious personality with an atypical career.