Morocco coach Walid Regragui takes a swipe at people who criticized inclusion of players born abroad in his team

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Yaccine Bonou born in Canada, Hakim Ziyech born in Netherlands, Achraf Hakimi born in Spain, Sofyan Amrabat born in Netherlands and Mazraoui also born in Netherlands were among the heroes of the day as the Atlas Lions knocked out Spain on penalties to progress to the quarter finals of the World Cup.

Before this World Cup we had a lot of problems about guys born in Morocco and Europe

Sometimes people, including some journalists in this room, said “these guys don’t love Morocco, why not play with the guys born in Morocco?” Regragui stated.

Some players were born in Germany, some in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, France and every country has a football culture