🚨New: Achraf Hakimi after Morocco 3:0 win over Canada, “Morocco aren’t carrying Africa anymore, Africa should be thanking Morocco for keeping the continent relevant on football’s biggest stage”
🗣️ Hakimi: “People keep saying Morocco is carrying Africa. No, we’re past that. Africa should be thanking Morocco for keeping the continent relevant on football’s biggest stage.
Every World Cup, the same script: big talk, big expectations, then early flights home. Meanwhile, Morocco keeps making history, keeps beating football giants, keeps giving the continent something to celebrate.
Let’s stop pretending this is a collective achievement. When Morocco wins, suddenly everyone wants to wave the African flag. But where is that same energy when Morocco gets criticized? It disappears.
Respect is earned, not inherited. We didn’t ask to become Africa’s standard, we became it because we kept delivering. If other African nations don’t like hearing that, then the solution isn’t to complain. It’s to catch up.
Right now, Morocco isn’t following African football, we’re leading it. Until someone consistently does what we’ve done on the biggest stage, Africa should be thanking Morocco instead of acting like our success belongs to everyone”