To some, it’s almost refreshing that the Moroccan women’s run in this summer’s World Cup is finally being assessed by the quality of its play and not by its existence.
The program itself is only 25 years old. When the United States won its second World Cup trophy in 1999, Morocco’s women still had just a single win in any setting. The question of whether women should be allowed to play soccer was still a subject of conversation in cafes, in newspapers and on TV and radio as recently as two weeks ago, and there are still plenty of skeptics., did not help.
Back home, the conversation was changing too, as Morocco advanced to Tuesday’s round-of-16 meeting with former colonizer France, which. After the Colombia win, Knorr, a bouillon company and a staple of the Moroccan kitchen, ran an ad with a picture of the World Cup trophy and a message that read: “Nothing other than Knorr belongs in the kitchen. Congratulations to the Lionesses of the Atlas.
AS FAR, a storied men’s club affiliated with the royal military, has been a pioneer on the women’s front, claiming 10 league titles and winning the most recent African Women’s Champions League.“At a younger age, boys and girls play football in the street, on the beach, but at a certain age, we did not have structures to support girls,” said Bahya el Yahmidi, head of the FAR women’s section and vice president of the national women’s championship.
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