After becoming the talk of the international media, it appears that Omani Muhammad Al-Hajri, known as the ‘bad football fan’, is set to play for France in his match against Morocco on Wednesday in the FIFA World Cup .
Al-Hajri has received thousands of requests from Moroccan fans to wear the French national team jersey to bring bad luck to the roosters and Atlas Lions to reach the final match of the World Cup in Qatar.
And it happened that all the teams that wore the stone, also known as “Mjumba”, lost their shirt, from the start of the World Cup until Croatia’s exit.
The Omani fan had declared in a previous interview with the “Al-Majlis” program on the Qatari channel “Al-Kass” that he did not object to being called a “miserable fan” after all the teams he supported had lost, explaining that what it happened to him at the World Cup he arrived by chance.
In a video clip widely circulated on social media, Moroccan journalist Ashraf Ben Ayad appears begging Al-Hajri to put on a France shirt.
And the Moroccan journalist appeared in his hand a banknote that seemed to be 50 euros, and asked the “unlucky fan” to buy the French rooster shirt to wear in tonight’s match to bring him bad luck.
Al-Hajri said in his reply to Ben Ayed when asked to wear the shirt of France in the semi-final and Argentina in the final if Morocco qualified: “God willing, God willing, it is necessary,” referring to his desire to attend the meeting with the slogan of the champion.
And, Al-Hajri arrived in Doha from Oman to watch the opening match between Qatar and Ecuador, wearing Qatar’s national dress and burgundy scarf, where the host team suffered a 2-0 defeat.
Subsequently, Al-Hajri attended the Saudi Arabia-Argentina match, wearing a blue shirt with Lionel Messi’s name and number 10, before Al-Akhdar managed to topple one of the tournament’s top candidates.
He later returned to Oman, but fans asked him to return to Qatar to watch the England-Senegal match to encourage the latter, but the African team lost to the Three Lions.
Then he went to support South Korea against Brazil, Argentina’s national team rivals in South America, but the Asian team lost.
Here, Al-Hajri decided to discontinue the traditional cheer and put on the shirts of the teams he wanted to lose.
In an earlier interview with Al-Hajri, he said that the Moroccans, before the quarter-final match, began to beg him to encourage Portugal to bring them bad luck.
Also in the quarterfinals, the Samba boys had bad luck after Brazil were eliminated by Croatia after wearing the yellow logo.
He was also repeated in the same role, as he wore Portugal’s slogan against Morocco, which went Portugal by one goal and qualified for the semi-finals with an unprecedented Arab and African result.
And since Al-Hajri mainly encourages Argentina, he decided to wear the Netherlands shirt in the quarterfinals with the tango dancers, as the heavenly team managed to progress to the semifinals. He did it again after wearing a Croatia shirt in the semi-final when Argentina reached the final.
Al-Hajri said: “Every team I encourage goes out. I don’t know whyโฆ this is the ninth victim,” referring to Croatia, who were eliminated from the tournament.
In an interview with Qatar’s BN channels, which broadcast the World Cup, Al-Hajri reviewed the teams we “challenged”, saying: “There are people who think I’m a magician, but it’s luck “.
He indicated that he had received many requests from Moroccan fans not to wear the black Atlante shirt, and instead wear the blue French shirt.