{"id":1265138,"date":"2022-12-14T16:35:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T16:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/14\/moroccan-fans-brace-for-fairy-tale-semi-final-clash\/"},"modified":"2022-12-14T16:35:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T16:35:05","slug":"moroccan-fans-brace-for-fairy-tale-semi-final-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/14\/moroccan-fans-brace-for-fairy-tale-semi-final-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Moroccan fans brace for fairy tale semi-final clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Morocco-Football-Team-784x441-1-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Morocco-Football-Team-784x441\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Moroccans are eagerly anticipating their team\u2019s semi-final World Cup match against reigning champions, France.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco became the first Arab and African side to make it to a World Cup semi-final, after defeating Portugal last week in a shock result.<\/p>\n<p>Across Casablanca, a port city in western Morocco, caf\u00e9 owners are setting up for the biggest football game of their lives.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Tables are being cleared out, and rows of chairs lined up in front of giant screens, ready for the throngs of supporters who will be pouring into the city\u2019s many coffee shops to watch the game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vendors selling flags and football jerseys have taken over Medina, the city\u2019s historical district.<\/p>\n<p>Football fans here say they never expected this day to come, and that the team\u2019s victory would be a watershed moment, not just for Moroccans, but for the entire African continent, as well as the Arab world.<\/p>\n<p>This is a country which has poured millions into its national team. That investment appears to be paying off: many of its players were trained in Morocco rather than abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Many here are praying this homegrown side will make history today.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ylFi8UONz0Y\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam Media Review on Adom TV (14-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ylFi8UONz0Y?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moroccans are eagerly anticipating their team\u2019s semi-final World Cup match against reigning champions, France. Morocco became the first Arab and African side to make it to a World Cup semi-final, after defeating Portugal last week in a shock result. Across Casablanca, a port city in western Morocco, caf\u00e9 owners are setting up for the biggest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1265139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[7562,214,8646,15,6096,4029,8224],"class_list":["post-1265138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-brace","tag-clash","tag-fairy","tag-fans","tag-moroccan","tag-semifinal","tag-tale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265138","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=1265138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}