“Unfortunately, our defeat against Morocco is a shame, but it is a realistic shame!!,” Mido wrote in a post on X. He added: “It is a shame that reflects the huge difference between a football school that has started to lose its identity and a football school that has known how to develop.”
The coach explains that Morocco’s exceptional performance at the Paris Games is not the result of chance, highlighting the successful reforms of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation. Morocco is “a football school that knew how to export players to Europe, that knew how to develop its coaches, that knew how to improve its training licenses, that knew how to exploit the skills of its sons who have great experience in various fields,” he said.
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The former Zamalek player went on to call on his country’s authorities to follow Morocco’s example. “The Kingdom of Morocco is a country that has men who serve it and a country that has men who serve themselves!! All respect to Morocco and its sons… and we must wake up!!”, he concluded.
The Moroccan Olympic team defeated its Egyptian counterpart on Thursday at the Stade La Beaujoire in Nantes, by a resounding score of 6 goals to zero, winning its first Olympic medal. With this performance, Morocco makes history, becoming the first Arab country to win an Olympic medal in football and the third African country after Ghana in 1992 and Nigeria in 2016.
