Morocco Crazy At The 2022 World Cup, Atlas Lion Week Performance Is Not Free Of 14 Foreign Birth Players

JAKARTA - The Morocco national team looked crazy at the 2022 World Cup. A team of giants like Spain and Portugal was successfully eliminated.

The slick performance of the Atlas Lion turned out to be inseparable from the 14 players born outside Morocco (foreign born).

Famous names such as Hakim Ziyech and Achraf Hakimi are among them.

Ziyech was born in Dronten City, Netherlands in 1993. He then studied football in the Dronten and Heerenveen junior teams.

After promoting to Heerenveen's main squad in 2012 or at the age of 19, Hakim Ziyech's professional career continued to skyrocket. He had the opportunity to defend Twente (2014-2016), Ajax Amsterdam (2016-2020) and Chelsea (2020 until now).

Together with the clubs above, Judge Ziyech also won the 2018-2019 Dutch League (Ajax Amsterdam) and 2020-2021 (Chelsea) Champions League trophies.

Apart from Judge Ziyech, there was also Achraf Hakimi who was born in Madrid, Spain on November 4, 1998. Even though he was born abroad, Hakimi is the son of the originalpair of Morocco.

That reason made him heartened to strengthen the Atlas Lion at this World Cup. Previously, Hakimi's youth was spent in Spain studying at Real Madrid's junior academy.

Even though he failed to become a mainstay Real Madrid player because he lost to Dani Carvajal, Hakimi actually shined with Borussia Dortmund, Inter Milan and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG).

The coach's opportunity, Walid Regragui, included 14 foreign born players from 26 names that were brought to Qatar could not be separated from the interference of the Morocco Football Federation (RMFF).

Quoted from Reuters on Tuesday, December 13, the Morocco federation is indeed actively spreading talent seekers in Europe to find players who want to defend one of the countries on the African continent.

The talent seeker RMFF has assigned to this matter is the former Morocco national team player, Noureddine Moukrim. Moukrim has nine years as Morocco's scout in Belgium and has the task of contacting a young player and offering him for the Morocco national team.

Apart from Hakim Ziyech and Achraf Hakimi, there are 12 other names who are foreign-born players but choose to enter and defend the Morocco national team at the 2022 World Cup.

Berikut daftar 14 nama pemain timnas Morocco yang lahir di luar negeri beserta klub yang dibela