About the Moroccan national team – written by Badr Al-Din Al-Idrissi
I am concluding this column in the latest issue of Al-Mukhtab, calling for not to belittle the wonderful path that national football has taken at the national team level, to ultimately achieve global, African and Arab achievements as a culmination of a vision and strategy that emerged from a football policy. I promised to return to the workshops of the national clubs that complain about… A severe malfunction in the operating system, and a relatively low level of presence of our clubs at the African level, as witnessed by the past and current editions of the Champions League and the CAF Cup.
I was keen on people, 15 months ago, when the national team returned from Qatar crowned with a wonderful scarf, as it reached the semi-finals of the World Cup as the first African and Arab team, to demand the continuity of the legacy and successes, to make our football scene an image of a country that is the fourth in the world, and that image does not She tolerates the obscene and even unacceptable practices that come with her today.
I reminded you again, while we are fulfilling a dream that we have pursued for decades, by announcing with the two neighbors, Spain and Portugal, organizers of the World Cup in its “imaginary” version in 2030, that what Moroccan football must present from now on is an image of harmonious colors and dreams, without any doubt. He leaves it to the obsessions and nightmares that disturb his sleep.
But what we have seen, unfortunately, since the beginning of the current football season, is that we have not been faithful to that will that aimed to beautify the picture, and the evidence is that what occupies our newspapers, our radio stations, and our websites, as they talk about the professional championship in its two parts, are scandals, abnormal behavior, financial crises, storms in warehouses and backstage, and riots in… In the stands, we are more concerned about what the players offer on the field of the stadiums that were left open during the season of displacement.
When passing the professionalism exam, and the monitoring had become strict and the flexibility and favoritism had stopped, we found the clubs falling like autumn leaves, unable to bear the provisions of prudence in financial management, and most of them unable to work with the contracting system, due to fragility, so many of them deviated from the text, declaring bankruptcy, and were closed in his face. The doors to assignments, after he had accumulated dispute rulings, whether from FIFA or from the dispute room within the university.
Despite all the awareness-raising workshops that the university opened for a long time, in order to put the clubs on the train of change, and provide them with economic safety belts, the hobby house remained open, exporting recklessness and misery, and the evidence is what we are facing every day in terms of resignations, protests, and strikes.
Despite the amount of time we spent downloading the company system, which activates one of the most important rules and levers of professionalism, to get rid of arbitrary management, or programmed management from a distance, I cannot be certain that these companies, which are imposed by the Physical Education and Sports Law as a specific obligation, have disappeared from the ground up. It is safe from the tent, so there is a need, and the university has delegated many responsibilities to the National League of Professional Football, for this league to call for a national debate that examines professional football in a scientific manner, counts the shortcomings, which are many, and determines the distance traveled on the path to completion, which in any case is short, and it is Bold decisions were made, the first and most powerful of which was to have a collective will to relieve clubs and professionals from suffocation, because they are two opposites that do not meet.