The official FIFA account on Twitter praised the appeal of the head coach of the Moroccan national team, Walid Regraga, to the defender of the national team, Ashraf Hakimi.
The report quoted part of Regraga’s speech in which he said: “Hakimi is a man, all Moroccans should accept his head. He played with an injury and refused to come out of the game whenever we tried to get him out. First of all, he won the Man of the Match award. He’s an incredible player.”
And Moroccan national team defender Ashraf Hakimi said on Thursday that he played with an injury against Canada (2-1) in the third and final round of the group stage of the World Cup in Qatar, stressing his readiness to fight. with “precious and precious” to protect the colors of their country’s flag.
Hakimi said at a press conference after the Atlas Lions reached the second round for the second time in their history since 1986: “We are delighted to qualify and we did amazing as the coach (Walid Regragui) said and congratulations team, we are not just a team, we are a family, we have a good group, and those who play and those who do not play, we have a good mentality.
The Paris Saint-Germain French defender, who was selected as Man of the Match, added: “I think we made history today and we are proud of it. I am proud to protect the colors of Morocco and help all things Moroccan people happy and proud at the same time.”
And he added: “Today we wrote history. I was injured, but I really wanted to play to help my team, because you don’t know when you will have that opportunity, so we played our best and succeeded. “
Hakimi praised his coach, Regraga, saying: “This man has created a wonderful group and we trusted him and talked about it for a long time. We trust our coach and I would like to thank him for doing an excellent job after we have gone through difficult times.”
For his part, Recragui pointed out that Hakimi played with an injury from the first match: “In the match against Croatia, he got injured and ended the match. He played the match against Belgium with an injury, and today too.”
He added: “Moroccans should take his head every day. He plays injured, and today we had a dialogue with him until the last minute, if he can continue to play. He told me that for the sake of the country, I would continue to fight.” and play.”
He joked, “Hakimi is lucky. Despite the injury, he got the best player award, but he deserves it.”
