#morocco-national-team

#morocco-national-team

At last, Morocco have arrived at the tournament they are hosting. For four games they had played scratchy, crabbed football. Finally, in a spiky, ill-tempered quarter-final, there was something more like the Morocco that reached the semi-final of the World Cup just over three years ago. If the game wasn't fluent, that was largely Cameroon's doing as they spoiled and sought treatment.

"Yes, I still think so; otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here," he said. "I have even more confidence than everyone else, I believe, in this group and this team. And we know that in a competition - even more so in the Africa Cup of Nations, but in all competitions in general - it's at the end of the show that the musicians get paid. "The most important thing today is to continue our progress to win this game and finish first [in the group] to stay in Rabat. This is our objective."

Even if he plays for Spain, the affection the Spanish will have for him will never be the same as that of the Moroccans,