{"id":1251817,"date":"2022-11-16T13:12:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T13:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/16\/morocco-a-sixth-world-cup-that-could-end-at-the-first-stage\/"},"modified":"2022-11-16T13:12:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T13:12:01","slug":"morocco-a-sixth-world-cup-that-could-end-at-the-first-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/16\/morocco-a-sixth-world-cup-that-could-end-at-the-first-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco: A sixth World Cup that could end at the first stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Morocco will be making their sixth FIFA World Cup appearance in Qatar with four days to kick off the global football showpiece.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlas Lions\u2019 best performance was in the 1988 edition where they topped their group but eventually lost to eventual winners West Germany in the next round.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/9517db9d949d42118399ffa9f77ab136\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The one time Africa Cup of Nations winners face 2018 World Cup semi finalist and runners, Belgium and Croatia as well as Canada in group F.<\/p>\n<p>Freelance Moroccan journalist, Reda Bennis admits the group is a tough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can tell you one word, I can tell you welcome to hell,\u201d Reda Bennis told Radio Gold Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are playing the finalist of the World Cup which is Croatia, we are playing against the semi finalist of the World Cup which is Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we are playing against Canada who won against the United States 6-0.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt won\u2019t be easy but we don\u2019t have to say that we will lose from the beginning of course we are playing against these top level teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we have our chances to, we have our chance to show the World that we can play good football.\u201d Reda Bennis told Radio Gold Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: AdamuMuftawu (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAfrica Cup of Nations<br \/>\nCanada<br \/>\nMoroccan<br \/>\nQatar<br \/>\nWorld Cup<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco will be making their sixth FIFA World Cup appearance in Qatar with four days to kick off the global football showpiece. The Atlas Lions\u2019 best performance was in the 1988 edition where they topped their group but eventually lost to eventual winners West Germany in the next round. The one time Africa Cup of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1251818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[262,1010,14211,150,784],"class_list":["post-1251817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-cup","tag-morocco","tag-sixth","tag-stage","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}