The Real Madrid player gave his national team victory on Monday by scoring in the 93rd minute against Lesotho.
Brahim Diaz scored a beautiful goal in the 93rd minute on Monday to give Morocco victory against Lesotho (1-0) in the qualifiers for the Africa Cup of Nations.
The Real Madrid midfielder has played two games for his country this month and scored two goals, his first for the country. Another Real Madrid player, Arda Güler, was the key player in Turkey’s 3-1 victory over Iceland in the Nations League.
Morocco is participating in this tournament despite qualifying for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations as a host country. The match was held in Agadir due to the impossibility of playing it in Lesotho, which does not have a stadium with the conditions required for an international match of this nature.
Morocco coach Walid Regragui had initially left the former Milan player on the bench. Diaz came on in the 57th minute in place of Illias Akhomach and in the 93rd minute, he won a ball in the box, dribbled past two opponents and scored with his right foot.
Brahim, in what was his sixth game for Morocco, had already scored last Friday in the 4-1 win over Gabon). It was in March that it was made official that the Malaga-born midfielder, whose mother is Spanish and father Moroccan, would play for the Moroccan national team after playing for Spain in the youth categories.
