Jakarta, CNNI Indonesia —
Moroccan national team they will face French in the semifinals World Cup 2022 at Al Bayt Stadium, Al Khor, Thursday (15/12) early morning WIB. Here are three key figures of the Moroccan national team of French origin.
The success of the Moroccan national team cannot ignore the presence of hereditary players. In the list of 26 players who left for Qatar, 14 were legacy players.
Several key players like Achraf Hakimi, Yassine Bounou and Sofyan Amrabat were born overseas. Besides Europe, there are also those who were born in the Americas.
Most of the Moroccan national team players at the 2022 World Cup were born in the Netherlands. There were four people born in the Land of Windmills.
There are four players who were born in Belgium. Then two people were born in Spain, two players born in France, one in Canada and one in Italy.
France is one of the countries where the players of The Atlas Lions were born. The historic intersection of the two countries causes many Moroccans to settle in France.
Even if they were born in a foreign country, they still come back to promote football in their ancestral country. Here are three Moroccan locks born in France.
1. Walid Reragui
Morocco national team manager Walid Reragui was born in Corbeil-Essonnes, France on 23 September 1975. He began his football career at Racing Paris in the late 1990s before moving to Toulouse and Ajaccio.
After a six-year professional career in French football, Reragugui moved up to the Spanish Liga with Racing Santander. It ran for two seasons on Matador Country.
Reragugui then returned to France for a season with Dijon. He then moved to Grenoble where he stayed for two years. In Grenoble, Reragugui became a team-mate of Olivier Giroud, who became the mainstay of France’s front line at the 2022 World Cup.
Reragugui then moved on to the Moroccan league with Moghreb Tetouan until he decided to retire as a player in 2009. Five years later, he started his coaching venture at local Moroccan club, Fath Union Sport for five years.
He had coached Qatari club Al Duhail in 2020 before returning to Moroccan club Wydad AC in 2021. Until August 2022, Reragugui officially coached the Morocco national team.
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