The Confederation of African football (CAF) has congratulated Morocco for making it to the semi-final at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
The Atlas Lions made history as the first African country to achieve the feat courtesy of a 1-0 victory against Portugal.
Youssef En-Nesyri scored the only goal of the game in the 42nd minute heading the ball past Portuguese goalkeeper Diogo Costa.
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CAF commended the historical feat of the Moroccans on the social media.
“Morocco become the first African side to reach #FIFA World Cup semi finals! What an achievement by the Atlas Lions! @En Maroc,” the continent’s soccer governing body tweeted.
Morocco will play the winner of the quarter final fixture between England and France in the semis.
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Omo MOROCCO really SHOCKED many cos among all the AFRICAN REPRESENTATIVES nobody thought MOROCCO could come this far…
They were all calling CAMEROON and SENEGAL…
Congrats Morocco…..
Now bring the cup home
I was amazed and ashamed to learn that the Moroccan keeper is Sevilla no one goal keeper. If Morroco with population of only 37milliin people can produce a keeper of such calibre what is wrong with Nigeria with a population of over 300million people?
Did you also learn that he is of the “foreign-born” stock that you and your cohorts (led by Paul Bassey and Eguavoen) don’t want to see in our own national teams….???
Thanks Dr.Drey. The Moroccan goalkeeper was actually born in Montreal Canada and is a dual citizen of Morocco and Canada. Nigeria should use its best players, irrespective of whether they are foreign-based or not. The corrupt NFF should get their acts together.
hesgoal has been seized by law enforcement any reason for this?
Go Morocco !
Morocco was victorious because
1) they are well organised with team spirit.
2) they don’t respect opponents.
3) they sacrifice for one another in spite of errors.
4) they were highly goaded and supported by the Arab nation. Check out the fans.
5) they are vibrant coach that apply human relation style of management.
6) they have good FA.
7) they won and may win more
Congratulations to Morocco. We are proud of you.
Just a quick question. Is Morocco’s coach a local coach or foriegn? Where are the people here supporting the foriegn coach that will come here in Africa to make money?
Starting from NFF and the rest of the FAs in Africa should resign immediately because, they have failed our continent woefully. How many teams from Africa that went to Qatar and how many teams remain? This is very embarrassing.
The level of corruption is way too much in Africa. African teams will go to the world cup with the aim of playing three matches and after that then they return home.
The FAs won’t invest in football but milking the Federation in every angle.
Now, where is Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal, Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia teams?
Also, African teams have to change their mentality. When they face big team, they soak themselves in pressure and they will play bellow their pedigrees.
For example, Nigeria vs Portugal, African teams at every world cup. Why?
Now, where is Edoman and the rest of Oga Rohr followers?
African teams/FAs are not ready to make Africa proud at the world cup and for we Nigerians particularly, we have to chase out Nigeria football Federation before Super Eagles and our local coach can exel in any football.
African teams are not discipline enough to rule the world. Morocco is doing a fanterbulous job in Qatar. We all have to respect this Moroccan team.
I am ashamed of other African teams that went to the world cup to make the numbers while the Nigerian team is not excluded.
If Nigeria Super Eagles made it to the world cup, the team would crash out after group stage. The seriousness is not in the team. The players believe they are doing us a favor.
The goal keeper training is still relying on Uzoho and Okoye that our former world best coach left behind and if we continue this way, Super Eagles may not be super again.
Way forward is to change the NFF members with our ex footballers that sound enough to serve the nation. Our local coaches are needed presently in the Super Eagles. Enough of Oga Paseiro/Oga Rohr. Wake up Nigerians/Africans and fight for your countries. Africa need to rise up.
Amaju Pinnick, Shehu Diko, Sheyi, Oga Rohr and his followers, are you people satisfied now? History will definitely remember you all. God bless Nigeria!!!
won a ma wiru, a ma wi pete.
Obunu….was it not your local coach, your Mr senseless no nonsense total failure….sorry, total football NFF technical director, Eguqvoen that got us thrown out of both AFCON in R16 and the WC at the playoffs…?
How many of your so called 94 squad exinternationals have 10 years of coaching experience and have achieved anything in coaching to qualify them to coach the national team like their mate in Morroco.
Or you think Walid Regragui is in the class of your local coaches who cannot qualify for afcon or chan or group stages of CAF club competitions…….?
Of course history will remember Rohr fans for trying to save Nigerian football from where Oluyas like you have dumped it now.
Morocco has them all: structures, proactive FA, honesty, fair selection. We’ve cried for this. Everyone is waiting for magic. Corrupt NFF.
Nigerian is Dead unless we pray hard and vote wisely come 2023 it get worse everything about the nation is in shambles so football is not exception just mention one area of this country were everything is going well so we need divine intervention we don’t know our right or what we can do by ourselves that’s why the white men enlave us in everything that’s why we feel without a foreign coach we can’t win anything even when we want to use the Nigeria coach corrupt mentality will never allow them to put the right ones instead they put mediocrers bribe takers to be our coaches look at salisu Yusuf@ladan boso@and the rest there was a time a technical director was accused of demanding sex from our little under17 first trust Nigeria not came out of it but one thing I believe is with the level of this darkness we have found ourselves if we do the right thing light may be at the end of the tunnel amaju pinnick was used to finish what they have done in every sector in Nigeria a very rotten country but God will sanitize it and to show you hòw wicked our leaders are they also destroyed our football which happens to be the only thing unifying Nigeria they chant together when it comes to football because every other things has been taken by the criminals but I know enough is enough something will happen in this Land and people will come back to their senses.
Nigeria football development is ont in coaching crew or players only it an array and organized management; excellent structures , proactive NFF administrators ,enact drastic law on clubs , administrators,local plyers, refrees , just as imposing on any club to contract with big company so that it will fund the club, imposing hard retribution and penlty aganist any briber and venal administrator or player or coach in NPLF or national teams who would like to collect money or one to pay money to be in club or national team as a basic player instead of excellent players who are better than him, this bribe makes weak and shaky club , national team look at Salisu Yousuf , Ladan Bosso they collect the money from players to recall them in their teams SE team and SE under 20 team; NFF must hire Siasia as a best local coach now assisted by Iroha , Ike Shorunmo, Amosa Idissa, Daniel Amokache, Duch Simon Kalika or hire quality foreign coach as France Raymond Domenech, Jaques Santini or Brazilians Dung or Tite, Dutch Frank Deboer; NFF in their contract to put a technical condition that any coach would to do this task he must play with drastic and rigorous defensive midfield and back line; he must creat a unity and family Super Eagles; he must recall quality, strong have, agressive, feroius , have combative soul to defend SE jersy,coaches must enact decipline conduct on players who recalled to SE this rules ordered players whom recalled to SE to play agressive, combative , pressing style of play , any player does not play this style he will be banished and outcasted from SE for a length of time then he will be recalled again but with hard task to do it.NFF must grant coaching crew their wages in time, players also must be granted their bonuses after any match they won it.
It’s widely believed that when you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.
Look at it…..
**CAFCL WINNER: CASABLANCA (MOROCCO)
**CAFCONFED.CUP RUNNER’S UP:RS BERKANE (MOROCCO)
**CAFCL WOMEN: ASFAR (MOROCCO)
**AWCON RUNNER’S UP: MOROCCO.
**CHAN CURRENT CHAMPION: MOROCCO ……
The journey did not start in 2022
The journey did not start in Qatar.
It’s a well planed agenda that they began by fixing their league first before making plans to strengthen the national team.(most importantly, the fan and the well-behaved youths, ex and the FA didn’t clamor for 4 slot for the home based players.
They allowed the coach to pick the best irrespective of where they were born and raised).
ZIYECH: Born and raised in Netherlands… Plays for Chelsea.
HAKIMI: Born and raised in Spain….plays for PSG.
SAISS: Born and raised in France.
BONO GK: Born in Canada
Boufal: France
Zaroury: Belgium
Amrabat: Netherlands.
The list continue.(about 13 of the 26 invited players were born in foreign Land. The same policy Algeria deployed and won AFCON.
ROHR wanted to do the same but those greedy pot tommy politicians went and loose all the legion of demons in hell. By now we’ll have gone far but the demons keep dragging us backward.
They make use of the many LAZY YOUTH IN CSN, EX rubbish et all to perpetrate their evil.
Today see where we’re.