Many Moroccan fans wondered why Hakim Ziyech, the Turkish Galatasaray player, was absent from the national team’s matches against Gabon and Lesotho in the African Cup of Nations qualifiers.
Wide audiences expressed, through posts on social media and comments on the Hespress and Hesport pages, their surprise at Ziyech’s continued absence from Walid Regragui’s national voter’s list, despite his recovery from the injury he suffered earlier.
A group of Moroccan fans, in their interaction with the announcement of the national team roster today, Thursday, demanded that the two French league stars, Zakaria Abou Khalal, who shines with Toulouse, and Amine Harit, who plays at Olympique de Marseille, be brought back, and that they be given the opportunity in the upcoming matches, given the distinguished levels they present with their teams.
The fans also criticized the decision to call up four goalkeepers to the national team, as the list included Yassine Bono, the Saudi Al Hilal goalkeeper, and Mounir El Mohamady, the Nahdet Berkane goalkeeper, in addition to Salah El Din Chehab from Morocco Fes, and Ayoub El Khayati from the Royal Army. She indicated that it would have been better to replace one of them with another player in a different position.
The fans also wondered why Olympic team defender Mehdi Boukamer, who excelled at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris and won a bronze medal, was excluded, considering that he has the potential to gain experience with the first team and may be a solution to the defense crisis in the future.
It is noteworthy that the national team will face its Gabonese counterpart on Friday, November 15, in the city of “Franceville”, then it will meet the Lesotho national team on Monday, the 18 of the same month, at the Stade Cerfé in Oujda.
