About the Almountakhab Moroccan newspaper – written by Badr Al-Din Al-Idrissi
The Throne Cup final, which crowned Raja Athletic Club for the ninth time in its history, thus achieving a history-making double, brought down the curtain on a football season. Of course, if we reminded it of the beautiful excitement that the Raja and Army clubs brought to its end with their strong race and beautiful scramble, we also reminded it of the annoyances that marred it and that disrupted the development of the professional structure. for football.
Raja Athletic deserves congratulations for its exceptional season, which won two titles and amazing numbers, led by its record being undefeated, and the Royal Army, even as it regurgitates great sadness over the collapse of the dream edifice in a short period of time, deserves thanks for what it has created this season, as it wins the championship title and the title. The Throne Cup, but in front of all this there is a black and frightening face that can never be evaded, because it actually asks us about our professional identity: how do we sew it and when do we finish sewing it, and will we give it the authentic Moroccan print?
There are many impurities and obstacles that struck the past football season, including what is a force majeure expense, such as the closure of stadiums due to their need for reclamation and modernization to give them a World Cup appearance, and the resulting short displacement of clubs, and the subsequent suffering of suffering to obtain an alternative stadium, and great financial losses. Very similar to what happened, just as an indication, with Raja and Wydad, which cost them the closure of the “Donor” fire boat, a financial loss of no less than 3 billion, including what is structural, represented by the major failure that the clubs suffer from in getting out of debt and from the hammers of disputes. In the great difficulty that you feel in activating sports companies, the basic lever for professionalism, including what is regulatory related to the fragility that suddenly struck the programming of the professional tournament.
Of course, you cannot withdraw from the miserable scene of this season, the pictures of players striking again and again from training due to not receiving their financial dues, the pictures of stadium riots in their numerous and dangerous manifestations, the pictures of the Wicklow that was ruled by the Disciplinary Committee at one time, and the authorities responsible for some stadiums that did not accept the measure. Strange clubs may host their matches unless the stands are empty.
Together, these scenes combine to give us a fractured and damaged football situation that is not befitting of a country whose first team is fourth in the world, and is not befitting of a country that will host the World Cup in six years, and is also not befitting of a country whose monarch, His Majesty King Mohammed VI, has sought to entertain young people with sports. It has all the logistical means, including competition stadiums and academies for training and expressing talents.
Because maintaining these defects and obstacles would suffocate the professional project, welcoming a new sports season requires sitting at the discussion table, analyzing the disgraceful and disruptive phenomena and searching for ways to resist them. There is no way for Dar Luqman to remain as it is.
