About the Moroccan national team – written by Badr Al-Din Al-Idrissi
We understand from the frenzy that has gripped the Spanish media, embodied in its most popular and widespread sports newspapers, as it presents news after news that the name of the young Moroccan Lamine Djamel will appear on the list that Spanish coach Lafuente will reveal tomorrow, Friday, for the two matches that the La Roja national team will play against Georgia and Cyprus, that There is a feeling that amounts to fear, controlling the Spanish Football League, that Lamine Gamal will respond to the call of the heart and decide, similar to what happened with Ashraf Hakimi and Abdel Samad Zalzouli, to refrain from joining the La Roja national team and playing with Morocco, despite the fact that he fluctuated between all the Spanish Sunni teams.
We understand that there is a lot of enthusiasm to the point of recklessness when promoting news with certainty, that Lamine Gamal has made his decision and that he will carry the colors of the Spanish national team and not anyone else. This media stopped at the extraordinary talent that this young Moroccan enjoys, and he dares at the age of sixteen years, With a club as big as Barcelona, he will provide dazzling artistic feats that only the supernatural can bring at his age. Many have said that what Lamine Gamal created in Barcelona’s match at La Ceramica Stadium against the Yellow Submarines makes him the legitimate successor to the legend Lionel Messi. The Spanish media sat crying on the day The Atlas Lions knocked La Roja out of the quarter-finals of the World Cup. He did not fail to mention that this Moroccan team, which destroyed La Roja’s dreams, included among its ranks players who had graduated from Spanish academies (Achraf Hakimi, Mounir El Mohammadi and Abdel Samad Zalzouli) and players active in La Liga (Yassine Bounou, Jawad Yameq, Youssef Al-Nusairi), and perhaps he raised warning sirens to change the approach within the Spanish university, specifically within its technical administration, as happened previously in an ugly way with France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Certainly, a 16-year-old young man cannot take such a fateful decision, nor can he, no matter how hard he tries, resist this terrible pressure being exerted on him, to have him called up to the first Spanish national team at this age, and the purpose of this is not for the Spanish national team to benefit from his extraordinary technical talents. But the hidden goal is to block the Royal Moroccan Football League, and I may feel that Morocco has a strong tendency to include Jamal Lamine because of the wonderful talents he has in his lair.
While the Spanish media insists on reporting things that were not said by the young man, Lamine Gamal, or his young entourage, to assert that “Yamal” will respond to the call of the Spanish voter, the Royal Moroccan Football Federation prefers to move with the utmost wisdom to address the heart and conscience of Lamine Gamal, without the slightest pressure, intimidation, or even Procrastination, while FC Barcelona stands secretly rejecting this, which surrounds Lamin Gamal with the confusion and rumours, and it is in dire need of an environment isolated from all pressure, so that it is not negatively affected by this terrible tension that is happening around it.
The Spanish Football League wants to strike its Moroccan counterpart, away from the friendly letters imposed by the joint candidacy file with Portugal to organize the 2030 World Cup, with the same weapon it used to make Munir El Haddadi change his sporting nationality and ask to play for Morocco, after he felt from La Roja the stab of treachery that woke him up. It was late, and that particular case had caused the university to submit a petition to FIFA to amend the clause related to the player changing his sporting nationality, as this is permissible unless the player plays three official matches with the first team that holds his sporting nationality, so the Spanish Football League hastened, as it did previously with Its former voter, Vicente del Bosque, urgently summoned Mounir El Haddadi, who was brilliant at the time in the ranks of Barcelona, to the first team. To ask the current Spanish voter, Lafuente, to invite Lamine Gamal, who was sixteen years old, to join the first team, and the goal sought is to involve Lamine Gamal in Three official matches, to eliminate suspicion and prevent any possible change in his sporting nationality later.
I do not want to call it malice or nationalization of a talent that carries Moroccan blood in its genes, but I ask: Why did the Spanish university not treat Lionel Messi a few years ago the way it treats Lamine Gamal today?
For a simple reason, Lionel Messi’s father repelled them from the first attempt. He told Barcelona that Lionel Messi, who came to them at the age of twelve, was Argentine and would not play for anyone other than Argentina, even if he had the necessities of Spanish citizenship, which he was. Lionel only played at all his stations. For the Argentine national teams, and he only felt happy when he carried the colors of the Argentine national team and led it to be a world champion. Perhaps, this is how Jamal’s small family circle should have behaved from the beginning, to say to the Spaniards… What is love and what is loyalty except to the motherland… and for the Spanish media to realize that Talent is refined in academies, but it is genes that are passed on among the people of this country that has given humanity great, talented and extraordinary people, and everything will definitely not end. Even if Lamine Jamal accepts Lafuente’s invitation to the next training camp, the days will reveal to them what they were ignorant of.
