MOROCCO IN WORLD CUP IN RUSSIA 2018

The victory and qualification to the World Cup would have been sweeter, if we had managed to produce, train and coach our your own local footballers to the highest standards needed to play international football.

So let's thank Europe football academies for gifting us Benatia, Ziyach, Mohammadi, Boussoufa, Dirar and the rest.

We are separated by Spain by 14 Km. But it is light years in terms of coaching the young how to play football.

They use science and technology to coach the coaches. And we use retired footballers without diplomas.

They employ dieticians who teach the players what to eat and when. And we let our so-called players eat whatever they can lay their hands on from Lemsemen, white bread sandwices full of Kasher and buckets of sweet mint tea all day. The sugar crash is visible when the second half begins and most players can't follow the pace of the game. The tank is empty.

La Liga will pay 100 millions euros for talented players and we have missed this chance.