Paris Saint-Germain’s Achraf Hakimi and Real Madrid star Brahim Diaz headline the Morocco squad for the World Cup unveiled Tuesday by coach Mohamed Ouahbi.<\/p>\n
Ouahbi, who took up the Moroccan coaching role three months ago, has kept faith with the majority of the squad that took part in the African Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n
New names include Fulham defender Issa Diop, Strasbourg midfielder Samir El Mourabet and Franco-Moroccan Ayoub Bouaddi, the Lille midfielder who opted for the North African nation over France earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Morocco kicks off its World Cup campaign against Brazil, before taking on Scotland and Haiti in Group C.<\/p>\n
Morocco squad<\/p>\n
Goalkeepers: Yassine Bounou (Al-Hilal\/KSA), Munir El Kajoui (Berkane), Ahmed Reda Tagnaouti (AS FAR)<\/p>\n
Defenders: Noussair Mazraoui (Manchester United\/ENG), Anas Salah-Eddine (PSV Eindhoven\/NED), Youssef Bellammari (Al Ahly\/EGY), Achraf Hakimi (PSG\/FRA), Zakaria El Ouahdi (Gent\/BEL), Nayef Aguerd (Marseille\/FRA), Chadi Riad (Crystal Palace\/ENG), Redouane Halhal (Mechelen\/BEL), Issa Diop (Fulham\/ENG)<\/p>\n
Midfielders: Samir El Mourabet (Strasbourg\/FRA), Ayoub Bouaddi (Lille\/FRA), Neil El Aynaoui (Roma\/ITA), Sofyan Amrabat (Real Betis\/ESP), Azzedine Ounahi (Girona\/ESP), Bilal El Khannouss (Stuttgart\/GER), Ismael Saibari (Eindhoven\/NED)<\/p>\n
Forwards: Abdesamad Ezzalzouli (Real Betis\/ESP), Chemsdine Talbi (Sunderland\/ENG), Soufiane Rahimi (Al-Ain\/UAE), Ayoub El Kaabi (Olympiakos\/GRE), Brahim Diaz (Real Madrid\/ESP), Yassine Gessim (Strasbourg\/FRA), Ayoube Amaimouni-Echghouyab (Eintracht Frankfurt\/GER)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paris Saint-Germain’s Achraf Hakimi and Real Madrid star Brahim Diaz headline the Morocco squad for the World Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-462089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}