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Morocco Olympic Team to Face Belgium Espoirs in Friendly Match Ahead of Paris 2024 Games

In anticipation of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games football tournament scheduled from July 24 to August 9, the team of
Morocco The Olympians will face Espoirs of Belgium in a friendly match.

Almost two weeks after the last one Atlas Lions Olympic Training Course At the end of April, an opponent announced the next date for coach Tarik Sektioui and his boys. Therefore, the latter will meet the Belgian Espoirs on June 4 in Rabat at 9 pm, announced on Wednesday the Belgian Football Federation, whose team is not qualified for the Olympics. The match necessarily promises to be special with the ties that unite the two countries, with a large Moroccan community living in Belgium.

With fond memories of the 2022 World Cup

Lion Cubs of the Atlas hope to emulate their seniors from the national team A, the winners of the Red Devils at the 2022 World Cup On the second day of the group stage, Walid Regragui’s men surprised Kevin De Bruyne and the company by winning 0 clearly. -2. Romain Saïss opened the scoring in the 73rd before Zakaria Aboukhlal completed the victory for his team in extra time (90th + 2).

The Atlas Lions’ last two Olympic outings ended with a 1-0 loss against Ukraine’s Espoirs and a 0-2 win against Wales U21s on March 22 and 26 respectively.

The Moroccans will begin the Olympic tournament with a challenge in Group B with Argentina on July 24. They will then cross into Ukraine three days later, and finally Iraq on July 30. The Iraqis got their ticket after succeeding in the U23 Asian Cup at the expense of Indonesia (2-1) on May 2. The Indians must win
Guinea This Thursday in the play-offs to win the last seed giving access to group A.

2024-05-09 20:48:04
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