Morocco clinched their first ever medal in football at the Olympic games, after thrashing Egypt 6-0 in the bronze medal match of the Paris 2024 games on Thursday.
The Moroccans have now joined Nigeria (Gold, Silver, Bronze), Cameroon (Gold) and Ghana (Bronze) as the only African teams to win a medal in football at the Olympic games.In Thursday’s game, Abde Ezzalzouli opened the scoring for Morocco on 23 minutes before Soufiane Rahimi made it 2-0 just three minutes later.
In the 51st minute El Khannous got the third goal while Rahimi added the fourth on 64 minutes.
Akram Nakach made it 5-0 on 73 minutes while Achraf Hakimi completed the rout with the sixth goal with three minutes left.
The final of the men’s football event will be between hosts France and Spain on Friday.
While France will be looking for a first Olympic football gold since Los Angeles 1984 Olympics, Spain would be eyeing a first since Barcelona 1992 games.
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I thought this match would be more competitive.
Not this one way traffic. What a blow out!
Morocco na Egypt ni inakuna. Won na Egypt jati jati. Won fe na Egypt pa.
They wiped the floor with Egypt.
Great humiliation for the Pharaohs. Morocco fans will be taunting them about this for a long time.