Moroccan Player Sofiane Boufal Denies Enjoying Cristiano Ronaldo’s Tears

The Moroccan national team player, Sofiane Boufal, denied that he had said that he enjoyed seeing Cristiano Ronaldo crying, after the Moroccan national team eliminated Portugal during the quarter-final meeting that brought them together at the World Cup in Qatar at the end of last year.

Boufal wrote in “Story” on his Instagram page in French, saying, “Thank you for not distorting my words,” referring to the media, who said that he told the Qatari Al-Kass channel that he enjoyed seeing Ronaldo cry after his country’s national team was eliminated by the Atlas Lions.

The Lions team, Portugal, was eliminated from the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Qatar, in an Arab and African achievement that is the first of its kind.

Boufal supported his brief sentence, with a video documenting his speech in French as well, where he said, “With all due respect to Ronaldo, but of course I would have preferred Morocco to qualify at the expense of Portugal.”

and benefits Many media Boufal said that he was happy to see Ronaldo cry because he preferred the Argentine star, Lionel Messi, to him, and that he had always dreamed of playing for the Spanish club Barcelona.

It is noteworthy that the black team of Atlas dazzled the world during its participation in the last edition of the FIFA World Cup, where it achieved a march that is the best in the history of Arab participation in this global wedding.

And after its historic qualification for the quarter-finals at the expense of Portugal, Morocco became the first Arab and African country to reach the golden square of the World Cup.

Coach Walid Regragui managed to top their group (sixth) in the World Cup in Qatar, with 7 points, after achieving two victories, the first over Belgium and the second over Canada, and a draw with Croatia in the first round, which is the second time that the “Black” tops their group in the World Cup after Achievement of the 1986 World Cup.

During the last edition of the World Cup, the Atlas Lions achieved fourth place in the world, after their defeat in the ranking match against Croatia (1-2), and before that against France in the semi-finals, with a clean double.