The “Lions of the Atlas” are held in Rabat | received photo gallery presented as heroes

Roar to your beloved ‘Atlas Lions’!

Amid applause and shouts of joy, they welcomed tens of thousands of Moroccans to the streets as heroes. championship history.

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Thank you for giving your all, thank you for making us proud, thank you for making HISTORY ♥️🇲🇦 pic.twitter.com/9AIxIB1izA

– Team Morocco (@EnMaroc) December 17, 2022

In an open bus, the “Lions of the Atlas”, accompanied by the choice Walid Regragui, dressed in blue suits, they waved flags as they led the crowd along the street from Rabat-Salé Airport to the Royal Palace of Mechouar in the Moroccan capital , a drive of about 9 kilometers.

As the players who caused the surprising 2022 World Cup They passed through Mohammed V avenue (the main one in Rabat, where the parliament, the post office and the central bank are located), the ovations rose from the assistants, who immortalized the parade buses with their mobile phones, accompanied by motorbikes and vans of the gendarmerie, police and assistants.

Manual, a young amateur draped in the national flag went to Rabat five hours before the Moroccan team arrived to occupy the front rows from neighboring Salé, EFE said:

We are very proud of our lions. I am very happy. Thank God for this result. Let’s hope we win the next World Cup, why not?

For local fans What was achieved in Qatar 2022 will make history for the Moroccan national team and you had to be there to enjoy it.

What Walid Regragui has done is something extraordinary, something we won’t see again in four years. Better to be here in Rabat to celebrate.

The delegation then entered the Royal Palace where the players, accompanied by the arms of their mothers, coach and president of the Moroccan Football Federation, Fauzi Lekjaa, were decorated by King Mohammed VI

Next to the king, Crown Prince Mulay Hasan and his uncle Mulay Rachid greet first Lekjaa and then Reggui, before greeting the players and their mothers one by one, starting with the captain, Romain Saiss.

After the greeting, the members of the Moroccan national team took a family photo with the monarch, to whom they had already given several gifts, such as a ball, a signed shirt, a statuette with the logo of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and another of the World Cup that went to this Argentinian edition.

The Moroccan team It was the great revelation of the World Cup, the first African and Arab semi-finalist in the history of the tournament. Moroccan fans will always remember Hakimi, Ziyech or Bono, and discovered the qualities of Ounahi or Amrabet, who many expect to be big draws in the next football market.

The Moroccan national coach Regragui is already a national hero. Initially criticized for being appointed just two months before the World Cup after Vahid Halilhodzic took place, his words “diru niya” (“have faith”) became a national motto.

(With information from EFE)