RABAT (MOROCCO) (ITALPRESS) – It is now official: Walid Regragui will not lead Morocco national football team to the next FIFA World Cup. The defeat in the final of the Africa Cup of Nations against Senegal national football team in Rabat on January 18 will remain his last match as head coach of the Atlas Lions.
The federation has entrusted the national team to Mohamed Ouahbi, previously coach of Morocco national under-20 football team, which won the world title last October.
“I am honored by the trust the federation has placed in me,” he said in his first comments. “We will work with rigor and humility, relying on a clear method and a collective ambition: to improve match after match, set high standards every day, help the team take a step forward and live up to the ambitions of His Majesty the King and the Moroccan people.”
Along with Ouahbi’s appointment—also with a view to the 2030 FIFA World Cup, which Morocco will co-host with Spain and Portugal (with an opening phase in South America)—the national team staff will also include João Sacramento, former assistant to José Mourinho at Tottenham Hotspur and AS Roma, and later to Christophe Galtier at Paris Saint-Germain.
Thus ends the Regragui era: the 50-year-old Moroccan coach had been appointed in August 2022 and, just a few months later in 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, achieved a historic fourth-place finish—the best result ever for an African national team at a World Cup.
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