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Morocco’s national football team has moved up one place to 11th in the latest FIFA World Rankings, released Thursday, edging closer to its best-ever position of 10th, achieved in November 1998. According to FIFA, the Atlas Lions earned the promotion after winning eight of their last nine matches since the previous rankings update in July. […]
Kenyan President William Ruto has pledged a record-breaking 600 million Kenyan shillings (approximately $4.6 million) to the national football team, Harambee Stars, should they clinch the 2025 Africa Nations Championship (CHAN). Addressing the players during a breakfast meeting in Nairobi over the weekend, Ruto described the moment as historic, noting that Kenya is hosting the […]
The Tunisian Football Federation (FTF) has officially named on February 11 Sami Trabelsi as the new head coach of the national football team, the Carthage Eagles, replacing Faouzi Benzarti, whose contract was terminated last October. Trabelsi, a former Tunisian international with over 80 caps, will begin his second tenure as head coach after previously managing […]
Morocco’s national football team will fly back from Conakry without playing a game that was supposed to take place on Monday against the Guinean counterpart. According to Moroccan media, the Moroccan team and accompanying delegation headed Sunday evening to the Conakry Gbessia airport, where a special plane was to fly them back home. Heavy gunfire […]
After a disappointing performance at the recently-held African Cup of Nations, the Moroccan football team will have a new technical director, Welsh Osian Roberts. Roberts will serve as technical director of Morocco’s football squad for five years starting in September. The 54-year-old is an icon of Welsh football. “Roberts is going but his […]