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“Wow, wow… Morocco! It’s such a joy! Africa is shining! Go to Africa!” shouted Agwe Jefferson, 28, the driver in Yaounde, Cameroon’s capital.
In Libya, crowds watching the game in the port city of Misrata lit red lights and waved the Libyan and Moroccan flags, while people in the Tunisian capital celebrated the victory.
“Today Morocco honored Africans and Arabs and made a dream possible for all of us,” said Amour Souleilm in Tunis.
Meanwhile, in the Palestinian territories and Israel, thousands packed cafes, restaurants and football stadiums, screening the match, cheering on the Moroccan victory. The Moroccan team posed with the Palestinian flag after their previous victory.
“We felt like we won when we saw the Palestinian flag being waved by the Moroccan footballers,” said Imad Joudat, a Gaza-based businessman.
In London’s Edgware Road district, long a center of the city’s Arab community, the street was jammed with cars honking horns and waving flags, and in Paris Moroccan fans marched down the Champs Elysees, chanting and cheering. Filled it
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Moroccan fans erupted in anger when Youssef An-Nesri scored the only goal of the game. In Marrakech’s historic main square, Jama’a al-Fna, where officials had set up a large screen for fans, thousands of people bobbed up and down as the ball went inside.
As the game began, Moroccan fans in the stadium chanted “Ole, Ole, Ole!” In unison, a handful of Portuguese fans booed and whistled whenever Portugal gained possession of the ball.
Behind the two goals, banks of Moroccan supporters stood for the entire match, coordinating chants with drummers and fan leaders.
A man dressed in the red and green colors of the Moroccan national flag and its football kit raised his hands as the last minute approached, shouting “Oh my God, oh my God”.
In the media box, a security guard hugged the Moroccan journalist, crying with joy.
When Moroccan player Jawad El Yamiq walked around the pitch with a half Moroccan, half Qatari flag wrapped around his shoulders, a fan stood motionless, holding his hands over his mouth and looking down at the pitch as if on a scale. be unable to take Victory.
Outside the stadium a drummer led the fans in a chant of “go, go, go” before they sang “al-Andalus al-Andalus” – the name of the historic Muslim state that once ruled Spain and Portugal. , the two teams Morocco have now knocked out.
With many Moroccans living and working in the Gulf, Morocco’s World Cup matches have felt like home team games and Ismail Chakour, a Dubai-based banker, said he wanted to attend matches “whatever the cost”. Were determined