France will play Lionel Messi and Argentina for the title on Sunday while Morocco will take on Croatia in Saturday’s third-place game. FIFAWorldCup
for the title on Sunday while Morocco will take on Croatia in Saturday’s third-place game.
Walid Regragui, Morocco’s French-born coach, compared his team to the fictional boxer Rocky Balboa, who didn’t know he wasn’t supposed to win. And, like Rocky, Morocco took blow after blow Wednesday but kept fighting, putting France under constant pressure throughout the second half. Morocco, just the second nation outside Europe or South America to reach the semifinals of the World Cup’s 92-year history, was also the first Arab and first African country to make it to the final four. And doing that in the first World Cup played in an Arab state won it a huge following: Wednesday’s crowd of 69,294 at Al Bayt Stadium, on the edge of the Qatari desert, was a sea of Moroccan red.The strife that has ensnared Gio Reyna and the U.S.
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