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Morocco made history at the 2022 World Cup by becoming the first African team to reach the semi-final in the history of the tournament.
Regraguis men overcame football heavyweights like Belgium, Portugal, Spain to get to the last four.
Following his teams impressive outing in Qatar, there are talks Morocco are the favourites for the 2023 AFCON.
Regragui also supported this believe but has quickly backtracked on his statement.
According to him, teams like Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt and Cte dIvoire who failed to be in Qatar will be dangerous.
I made a big mistake during the World Cup. I said ‘We can win everything, if we are not King of the Africa we cannot be Kings of the world’ and after some time I came back to earth, the 48-year-old was quoted on the X handle of CAF media officer Ibrahim Daara.
“I think it will be very difficult for us to win the AFCON, we will not be favourites. The nations that did not experience the World Cup [2022] scare me more. But for us, in sub-Saharan Africa, it has always been complicated for Morocco.
I don’t even know if we’ve ever been to the semi-final in our history but maybe. We have only won one African Cup in our history.
“The last time we made a semi-final I think I was a player, I had hair. I apologize to the Moroccan people because I said that if we did not make at least the semi-final [in Ivory Coast] I would leave the national team myself. But I think that today there are better teams than Morocco on the continent.”
Moroccos only AFCON title win was at the 1976 edition in Ethiopia.
The last time they got to the final was in 2004 in Tunisia where they lost 2-1 to the hosts.
They are in Group F at next years tournament with DR Congo, Zambia and Tanzania.
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