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Morocco returned to the World Cup after a 20-year absence in 2018. [30] The North Africans were drawn in Group B with World Cup favourites Spain , Portugal , and Iran . [ 31 ] In their opening game against Iran, Morocco showed full dedication but lost 1–0 in the final minutes of the match, scored by an own goal. [ 32 ]
He made his debut in the following day, playing the entire second half of an eventual 1–2 defeat in Tangier. [45] In May 2018, Bounou was named in Morocco's 23-man squad for the World Cup in Russia, [46] where he served as reserve goalkeeper to Munir Mohamedi. [47]
The World Cup Finals is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world, with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the 2006 tournament final. Morocco have qualified for the final stages of the FIFA World Cup on six occasions, which were in 1970, 1986, 1994, 1998, 2018 and 2022. [ 1 ] Their best performance was in 2022 when they ...
Morocco's Youssef En-Nesyri celebrates after scoring his side's first goal during the World Cup quarterfinal soccer match between Morocco and Portugal, at Al Thumama Stadium in Doha, Qatar ...
Time: 2 a.m. PST, Thursday. TV: FS1, Telemundo, Peacock Premium. The buzz: Cameroon, the five-time African champion, needed a score in the 124th minute to edge Algeria on away goals and qualify ...
The 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF Group E is a CAF qualifying group for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The group contains Morocco, Zambia, Congo, Tanzania and Niger. Eritrea withdrew before the first matches were played. The group winner will directly qualify for the World Cup, and the runner-up could potentially compete in the second ...
In the men’s World Cup last year, Morocco strung together its own run of upsets. The team advanced to the round of 16 for the first time since 1986 and became the first African or Arab nation to ...
Group K of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification tournament was one of the twelve groups that decided the teams which qualified for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations finals tournament. The group initially consisted of four teams: Morocco, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Liberia. However, on 23 May 2022, CAF announced that Zimbabwe were ...