Regragui is targeting AFCON 2024 glory, after fourth place at World Cup .The Atlas lion’s gaffer had taken the Moroccan squad,some three months to the start of the Qatari World men’s soccer Jamboree.
Regragui has insisted on the need to assert the Moroccan football authority in Africa
The 47-year-old blamed ‘tiredness’ for his side’s defeat to Croatia
Morocco lost 2-1 to Croatia in the third-place playoff on Saturday to end the tournament in disappointment but while he is proud of what his team have achieved, Regragui feels they need to prove that they are the best in Africa by winning the 2023 tournament, which was postponed to 2024, in the Ivory Coast.
Walid Regragui had the following;
“I told my players that we cannot be kings of the world before being kings of our continent. »
“We’re now going to work on winning the Afcon« , he added.
“Sunday morning we will take stock, and realise we all made a fantastic achievement here. We played Croatia twice, one of the top three teams in the world. We played against Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium and Canada, that’s wonderful.”
“We have an objective of winning the World Cup one day. Morocco showed we can go toe-to-toe with these teams. We are now one of the top four teams in the world, » Regragui concluded
By Brian Mboh