FIFA republished the story of Moroccan goalkeeper Yacine Bounu on Twitter ahead of the national team’s match against Spain on Tuesday.
FIFA praised the goalkeeper by preparing a short video about his football career in the Inspirational Stories category. FIFA told Bono’s story, from the CAF Champions League final with Vidad, to the third division in Spain with second team Atlético Madrid, to the award for the best goalkeeper in the Spanish league. And FIFA considered that “Bono has one of the most inspiring stories in football.” And he continued in a tweet on Twitter: “Bono dropped everything and started from scratch in search of his biggest dream. Today he is the defender of the Atlas Lions Den at the World Championships in Qatar.”
In the video, Al-Ittihad said: “No Moroccan could have imagined that the boy who left the Wydad team in 2012 after reaching the CAF Champions League final would one day become the goalkeeper who would be awarded the Zamora Award as the best goalkeeper. the best goalkeeper in the Spanish league less than ten years later.” Al-Ittihad revealed that Bono’s story is old, starting in Canada where his family immigrated there and Yassin was born in Montreal to obtain Canadian citizenship, but the family returned to Morocco and his football journey began in Casablanca.
Bono’s journey in the world of football started with Wydad in 1999 and he played with them in the CAF Champions League Final in 2011 and began to play regularly with the team and he played his first match for Morocco as a goalkeeper in 2013 against Burkina Faso to start his journey in the goal guard of the national team. In the coming years.” at Atlético Madrid, who play in the third division of the Spanish League, and then moved to the second division of Zaragoza, where he distinguished himself before moving from there to Girona, which gave him first-class performances against Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi and the biggest stars in the world.
Bono developed while he was in La Liga, but his career suffered a shock when Girona were promoted to the second division at the end of the 2018/2019 season, which led to another transfer the following summer after relegation, and he moved to Sevilla, where he spent the season sitting on the bench but reaped the rewards of his patience when he was exposed: Sevilla starting goalkeeper Tomas Vaclich was injured at the end of the season.
Bono seized his opportunity and his outstanding level was instrumental in Sevilla winning the Europa League title. Bono became Sevilla’s main goalkeeper and one of the most outstanding goalkeepers in Europe, as well as the first Arab goalkeeper to receive the prestigious Zamora award at the end of the 2021/22 season.
FIFA said Bono now faces his biggest test yet, defending the Atlas Lions at the World Cup in Qatar, and the Moroccans are pinning their hopes on him to repeat the 1986 experience, advance to the second round and be eliminated. stages.
It is noteworthy that Bono withdrew at the last moment before the start of the confrontation, in which his country beat Belgium 2-0, at Al-Tumama Stadium in Doha in the second round of the Group F competition at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. due to abdominal pain. Bono was in the starting lineup for the match, went through a warm-up period and stood with teammates during the national anthem, but after that he felt dizzy, so his coach, Waleed Al-Rakraki, decided not to risk his participation and replaced him with a Saudi goalkeeper Arabia Munir Al-Kajwi Al-Mohammadi.
Asked by Agence France-Presse about what happened to Bono after the warm-up period and the national anthem, Regragi said at a press conference: “Yassin Bono got injured against Croatia and we tried to prepare him at the right time. , but during the warm-up period he felt pain in his stomach, which made him dizzy, and asked to be replaced. In a separate context, while the Morocco national football team aims to write new history in its sixth participation in the World Cup final when it faces neighboring 2010 champions Spain on Tuesday at Doha’s Education City Stadium. A new situation has occurred with the health of one of the main players of the Moroccan national team. Al-Kass Channels, a group of Qatari sports channels, reported that Moroccan player Sofiane Amrabat was suffering from back pain and had been taken to the hospital for examination. Morocco national football team coach Walid Rekraghi says that Amrabat is “the most important player in his team due to his tactical advantages and intelligence”.
