Modern game and special talents: that’s why Morocco can win the World Cup

Hakimi’s class, Ziyech, Amrabat, the Bounou shutter… And then the planets that occasionally align in a bizarre way: here are the five reasons that light up an entire continent

by our correspondent Luigi Garlando

December 12th
– DOHA

In 2015 the French writer Michel Houellebecq published “Submission”. The novel imagined that in 2022 a Muslim party wins elections in France and that the protagonist, a brilliant professor from the Sorbonne, converts to Islam in order to continue teaching. It didn’t happen. But in this 2022, on Wednesday, Morocco attacks France in the semi-final of a World Cup. How credible is it that football submits to an Arab and African team for the first time? Can Hakimi and Amrabat win the World Cup? There are five good reasons to answer yes.

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