World Cup | Walid Regragui before Portugal-Morocco: “We want to make history and we are hungry”

After Cameroon (1990), Senegal (2002) and Ghana (2010), Morocco is the fourth African country in history to play in a World Cup quarter-final. On the eve of facing Portugal, Walid Regragui, the coach of the Atlas Lions, first called on his team not to ignite. “Me, I didn’t climb on a cloud, that’s for sure. That’s what happens outside, we make people happy, but we don’t forget that we are in the competition“, affirmed the successor of Vahid Halilhodzic in a press conference.

But Sofiane Boufal’s teammates are not lacking in ambition, as Walid Regragui reminded us. “What matters to us is to win Saturday’s game to make history, go to the semi-finals and keep dreaminghe hammered. The later it ends, the better for us and the people. The objective is to make him understand that we can still do more and better. If we keep thinking like that, we’ll be hard to beat. For the moment, we haven’t done anything, we just thwarted some predictions from some universities and some software that announced Belgium in the round of 16. Football is one of the only sports where anything is possible. The players have understood this and they are hungry.” The Portuguese have been warned.