Moroccan Ministry of Royal Palaces, Ceremonies and Decorations announces that, with royal directives, the national football team will be allocated, Tuesday, December 20, 2022,
areception at the level of the brilliant path it achieved during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
A communiqué of the Ministry of Royal Palaces, Ceremonies and Decorations stated that, in this context, the national team will receive a large public and public reception, since its arrival at Rabat-Salé Airport, at around five o’clock in the evening, passing through Hassan II Street, November 16 Square, Chellah Square, King Hussein Square and then Mohammed V Avenue, Post Square, Mohammed V Square, January 11 Square, Moulay El Hassan Street, Bab As Sufara, all the way to the Royal Palace, where the members of the national team will receive a sublime royal reception in celebration and appreciation of this great historical achievement.
This is what the Moroccan national team achieved in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar
Below we enumerate some of the numbers that were recorded with the arrival of coach Walid Regraki’s men to the golden square, waiting for France, and an attempt to reach a final that will surpass all descriptions:
Morocco became the first African team to qualify for the World Cup semi-finals, after the three previous African teams that reached the quarter-finals were eliminated (Cameroon was eliminated by England in the 1990 World Cup, Senegal was eliminated with Turkey in 2002, and Ghana was eliminated with Uruguay in 2010).
– Morocco has not been defeated in the last six matches in the World Cup (3 wins and 3 draws), which is the longest series of matches in which an African team has not lost in the history of the World Cup, by calculating their 2-2 draw with Spain in the last confrontation between Morocco in the World Cup in Russia. Cameroon followed with 5 matches without losing
– Morocco kept clean sheets in four matches in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™, more than it kept in its first 16 World Cup matches between 1970 and 2018 (three matches).
– Zakaria Abu Khalil’s goal, which was scored in the 91:51 minute against Belgium, was the most late goal for Morocco in the World Cup finals, and it was the first goal for Morocco in stoppage time of the second half.
– Yassin Bono, who played his fiftieth match with the national team against Portugal, became the first African goalkeeper to score a clean sheet in one edition of the World Cup.
• Morocco won three matches in the 2022 World Cup – No African team has won more matches in a single edition of the World Cup. No opposition player has scored against Morocco so far in the 2022 World Cup, as their only goal was scored via an own goal against Canada . No team has conceded fewer goals than Morocco in the 2022 World Cup.