About Almountakhab Moroccan newspaper-Written by: Badr Al-Din Al-Idrisi
We understand that we are concerned when the national team does not provide, in a match, what confirms that it is developing, holding on to its gains, correcting what appears to be imbalances, and taking an upward trend in the formation of its collective performance, as was the case with the match against Los Soto, which drew circles of doubt, which should not have formed around the national team, if Walid had not risked introducing all those changes to the team’s structure.
Even Walid himself shortens the path of accountability for us, about things that harm the national team, when he immediately submits hand-signed confessions, as no one forced him to change 90 percent of the formation that faced the Gabon Panthers when facing Los Soto, and no one forced him to transfer Achraf Hakimi from a position in which he was safe, creative and comfortable, for the sake of Noussair Mazraoui, he is the one who should have wisely dealt with the presence of high-caliber players in the same right wing.
No one forced Walid to say with his own tongue what football, which does not recognize absolute judgments, does not accept. It is as if he has wrapped a rope of fire around his neck. Why don’t we continue to play with Nasr Mazraoui as a left-back, when he has presented more than once that he is more qualified than Hakimi to bear the difficulties of playing against nature.
Nothing at all requires Walid to come to all his press conferences loaded up to vent his frustration in front of the media about things that are said and circulated about him in the blue space by influencers or chatterboxes. He knows best that he is the first person responsible for his choices and the first person accountable for his results, and that sound decisions are those that are cooked over a low flame and not on the chaff of anger. Walid, the owner of the small head that does not swell or harden, believes that the biggest bet that the Moroccans have secured for him is winning the African Cup of Nations. This dream evaporated in Côte d’Ivoire for reasons Walid could understand, so he put his trust in God with the blessing of the university to run again after the second bet, to seize the African title and the cup is being held here in Morocco, on our land. So why does he force himself to jump over artificial barriers? Why does he allow things that he does not accept in the first place? Why does he blur his path and fill it with twists and turns, when it is originally a flat and passable path? I feel as if there is a group whose origin and color I do not know, wants to drag Walid into a dangerous quagmire, defame him on or off occasion, appointing itself as a spokesperson for the people to raise the voice of the demand for his dismissal, not with every loss, because the national team has not lost since the fall of San Pedro against South Africa in the African Cup of Nations, but with every Caesarean victory for the national team coupled with an unconvincing performance, where the pickaxes are raised to fall on Walid’s head, and this represents a danger that targets not only Walid Regragui’s morale, but also the stability of the national team, although what I learned about the Lions’ environment is that the home of the national team has an iron roof and a cement corner that does not allow an atom of sedition to penetrate it. The national team came out of the two tests in September with a lot of information and data, which Walid will work to approach and dismantle with great wisdom, and experience has told him that there is no benefit in undertaking things that he is not convinced of, and he immediately admits their futility or repetition.
