About the Moroccan national team / Badr Al-Din Al-Idrisi wrote
Yassin Bounou did not present to the world, whether with the Lions in their legendary World Cup, which they finished in a historic fourth place, or with his club Seville as he flew it to the seventh title of the European League Cup, except what is of his wonderful genes, of his great creativity, what is the fruit of sane self-confidence and abilities, And what is the origin of the creators of this country that presents humanity with heroes and geniuses in all fields, who are original copies that do not accept reproduction.
Since the day Zaki Badu, the Arab and African goalkeeper legend, who was then a coach for Wydad Athletic, said that Yassin Bono is almost a picture of him, and I am confident that what Al-Zaki saw with the naked eye, and what his intuition was based on a certain knowledge of those stored genes and faculties. In Yassin, which will develop in size and speed according to what Bono will show of patience, composure, and confidence in abilities, especially the insistence on resisting despair and resisting frustration.
I do not need to mention the path that Yassin Bono walked since Atletico Madrid brought him to La Liga, nor the rugged paths he crossed, convinced of his ability to make a name for himself in world football, and of course without Bono being an exact copy of the legend Zaki Badu, except He represented the same genius in self-expression, and I think today he surpassed Zaki Badu in the size and quality of achievements, although I was never inclined to make comparisons between players whose times, environments, and contexts differ.
Those who came after Al-Zaki Badou from the guards of the Atlas Lions’ den, were not in a jelly who was crowned the third best goalkeeper in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, but rather some of them did not follow the same professional path, until Yassin Bono came to show us a lot of what we saw in Al-Zaki, and what I can To be a witness to him, in creating a mythical path that made him the best Moroccan goalkeeper in history, for a talent that was unique to him than anyone else, Viassien Bono, who set out from Wydad towards La Liga to join Atletico Madrid, and fluctuated on loan between small Spanish clubs, until his arrival in Seville was associated with a boom. A quality in his path, a breakthrough that has no income for luck, because it was achieved by the smiling Yassin thanks to a long journey of hard work in which neither effort nor exhaustion was diminished, and in which ambition did not wane and did not waver.
And if Yassin, in his mature years, had finally reached the world helm, after what he created with the Lions in the World Cup in Qatar and after what he did with his club Seville in the European League competition, in which he achieved his second title with his colleague Youssef Al-Nusiri, we no longer have any doubts that Yassin Bono is close to Achieving what his role model and mentor and the light of his dreams preceded him, Zaki Badu, winning the African Golden Ball for the current season..
Is there anyone more deserving of this African Golden Ball during the current football season?
To be honest, the question must be asked as follows:
Are there any Africans who are better than three or four lions, deserving of being among the candidates for a prize won earlier by four lions (Fares, Timoumi, Zaki and Mustafa Hajji)?
With the logic of comparison and based on the achievements and numbers that do not lie, the Moroccans are the best in their season that expires, with their remarkable presence in the World Cup in Qatar, and also with their achievements with their clubs. The European League final match against Rome raised the shares of Yassin Bounou to high levels, and it became possible to talk about that among them, who is worthy of this golden ball and matches his fabulous season, is Yassin Bounou, who completed the remaining chapter of the epic that makes Yassin a new legend in his homeland legends.