On Tuesday, December 6, 2022, Three Moroccan players from the Mohammed VI Academy have shaped the exceptional victory against Spain. Nayef Aguerd, Youssef En-Nesyri, and Azzedine Ounahi, who completely charmed Luis Enrique.

The promising Moroccan football mine known as ‘’Mohammed VI Academy’’ was built in 2009 by Royal decision, in Salé, near Rabat (the capitol of Morocco). By doing so, His Majesty King Mohammed VI wanted to gain back the magnificent football history of the Kingdom and train a new generation of youth champion that will take the mantel of Moroccan and African football to new levels. That was his Majesty’s vision to empower the country and the continent with a football academy that will get back to Africa to its rightful place among the great nations of football.  

Indeed, to realise such colossal project, the kingdom then invested thirteen million euros to build an ultra-modern center, which has nothing to envy to the infrastructure of the biggest European clubs. The academy was equipped with all kinds of infrastructure and equipment to give the future players the opportunity to be able to better themselves on all levels with built in grass pitches, synthetic pitch and stabilized pitch with dirt and mini sand pitch.

With all this vision and investment in well thought infrastructures and training staff, History was indeed made when the under-15s Moroccan team was crowned the African Youth Games in football.

After a decade of existence, the Mohammed VI Academy has already placed three of its winners in the starting eleven of the national team coach Walid Regragui, to which we must add Reda Tagnaouti, the third goalkeeper of the group. Indeed, the Academy has been able to produce these great players (a goalkeeper, a defender, a midfielder, and a striker).

This first generation produced by the Academy, already so important among the rank of the Atlas Lions team playing in the World cup, could inspire other countries on the continent to undergo such an investment to put Africa at the highest level of Football. So that every African kid who got talent and skills be able to be trained and sharpened to become the new Lionel Messi or Ronaldo of Africa. That’s the key to success in order to reinstall Africa to its former glory in the World of Football. That’s what the Mohammed VI academy is trying to achieve in order that the next African raising star do not escape the radar of this academy.