Morocco football

It was no coincidence, Reynald Pedros' girls put the finishing touches to a long-standing project set in motion by the Moroccan Football Federation (RMFF). The ...

The federation urged the various clubs to set up women's football teams to compete at this level, with the RMFF paying the salaries of the first and second division players, as well as the various technical and medical teams. As Fatima Bartali, press officer for the Moroccan U-17 women's national team, explained to the Afrik Foot portal, the FRMF also created a women's football academy six years ago, whose promising players from all over the country have access to the same facilities as the men's national teams. So we did everything we could to show that it was possible," explained the FAR Rabat striker, who assessed the tournament as "a first step that we must consolidate tomorrow". By the time the players were preparing to take on Banyana Banyana, the whole of Morocco was watching their women's team. The RMFF's first ambitious move in this direction was to organise an African Cup of Nations, which it did this year. The Atlas Lionesses competed like never before and reached the final against all odds, eliminating Nigeria, the favourites and eleven-time winners of the tournament, in the semi-finals.