Morocco depart Qatar dissatisfied however stuffed with satisfaction at having written their names into the historical past books by way of turning into the primary African staff to succeed in the World Cup semi-finals, their trainer Walid Regragui stated.
Morocco have been crushed 2-0 by way of France on Wednesday and can cross right into a playoff for 3rd position with Croatia whilst the French will face Argentina within the ultimate.
“We realize that we made a great achievement already,” Regragui advised newshounds. “We know that the media, social media, and on TV, we saw the pictures, and we saw that everyone was proud of us in our country.
“We’re dissatisfied for the Moroccan folks this night, we would have liked to stay the dream alive. But we are proud of what we have completed. We felt that we can have even long past even additional however those small main points assist actual champions, we noticed this night, in fact.”
Regragui told his players he was proud of them.
“His Majesty used to be additionally proud, the Moroccan folks have been proud,” he said. “I believe the sector as an entire is pleased with this Moroccan staff as a result of we display nice want. We paintings tough, and we performed fair, hard-working soccer.
“I think we’ve given a good image of Morocco and a good image of African football and that was also important for us, because we were representing our country and our continent.”
Morocco, who got here into the fit with the most productive defensive file within the event, conceded from France’s first critical assault 5 mins into the sport.
“Today, if I have regrets, it’s the start of the game,” Regragui added. “We started quite poorly and we conceded a goal very quickly and that made the difference.
“They allowed us to have rather a large number of ownership, however we made too many errors to purpose them issues.”
Regragui thought his team improved in the second half.
“We created a large number of alternatives, however sadly we were not scientific within the closing 3rd,” he said.
“We attempted the entirety to get a purpose however congratulations to France. We’re going to reinforce them now.”
Morocco lost first-choice center back Nayef Aguerd in the warm-up after a recurrence of a hamstring injury and their captain Romain Saiss left the pitch injured in the first half.
“In spite of the entire accidents that we had, the tiredness, we pulled out the entire stops and we gave the entirety,” Regragui said.
He was pleased that his team had caused France problems.
“But I believe bodily, we got here up brief this night. We had too many gamers who have been 60% or 70%, and feature been for a couple of video games now,” Regragui said.
“My gamers gave the entirety and they have long past so far as they may. I truly sought after to rewrite the historical past books, however you’ll be able to’t win a World Cup with miracles, you wish to have to do it via tough paintings. And that is what we ‘We’re going to do it.