Morocco coach Walid Regragui unveiled, this Thursday, December 28, his list of Moroccan players selected to participate in CAN 2024. He announced that he wanted to break “the curse of the African Cup”, forty-five years after the country’s last victory.
Morocco coach Walid Regragui displayed the ambition to break the curse of the African Cup forty-five years after his country’s last victory, during the presentation of the Moroccan players selected to participate in CAN 2024, this Thursday, December 28.
The more African competitions progress, the further away we get from the date we won it, but that’s no reason to put pressure on ourselves. We are going to go there to play our football, to give the maximum and above all not to have any regrets, declared Walid Regragui at a press conference. What is important is the state of mind, we must go there with complete confidence to overcome the curse of the African Cup, he added.
Hakimi, Harit and Ounahi selected But a year after signing the historic feat of reaching the semi-final of the World Cup in Qatar, the Atlas Lions are among the favorites for the CAN, which will take place from January 13 to February 11 in Côte d’Ivoire. of ivory. To meet the challenge of the competition, Mr. Regragui relies on pillars of the team such as Hakim Ziyech, Sofiane Amrabat, Nayef Aguerd, the Parisian Achraf Hakimi or even the Marseillais Azzedine Ounahi and Amine Harit. It also includes young players like Ismael Saibari (PSV Eindhoven) or Chadi Riad (Real Betis), from the U23 team which won the Under-23 CAN this year. We have a good balance between the present and the future, commented the coach. Morocco is in Group F with the DRC, Zambia and Tanzania.
source:ouest-france.fr
