{"id":238650,"date":"2025-10-20T13:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/238650\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T13:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:22:08","slug":"morocco-beat-argentina-to-win-u-20-fifa-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/238650\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco beat Argentina to win U-20 FIFA World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/Morocco-beat-Argentina-to-win-U-20-FIFA-World-Cup-2005908?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/16396501.295.jpg\" alt=\"Morocco are U-20 World Champions\" title=\"Morocco are U-20 World Champions\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/> <\/a>Morocco are U-20 World Champions<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">The Young Atlas Lions of Morocco have been crowned as the champions of juvenile football in the World.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco defeated 6 times World champions, Argentina in the finals on Sunday, October 19, 2025, in Chile to become the second African country to win the U-20 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>In front of the over 48,000 spectators at the Estadio Nacional Julio Mart\u00ednez Pr\u00e1danos, a first half brace from 20-year-old Yassir Zabiri sealed an empathic 2-0 victory for Morocco over the South American side.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/Watch-highlights-of-Morocco-s-2-0-win-over-Argentina-in-U-20-FIFA-World-Cup-final-2005909\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch highlights of Morocco&#8217;s 2-0 win over Argentina in U-20 FIFA World Cup final<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Morocco reached the final by beating South Korea, the United States and France in the knockout rounds before downing Argentina to cap an impressive run. <\/p>\n<p>It was the first loss in the tournament for Argentina, who was aiming for its seventh title.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Black Satellites were the first African team to win the U-20 FIFA World Cup. Ghana beat Brazil on penalties to make that history in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>JE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morocco are U-20 World Champions The Young Atlas Lions of Morocco have been crowned as the champions of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-238650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}