LOL.. when I first saw this thread, not even in my wildest dreams I imagined that it will stay alive up to the very end of the competition. To be fair, I wasn't expecting any of the African teams to progress from the group stage. And now we have Morocco who will play tomorrow against Croatia for the 3rd place. And it is going to benefit them financially as well. If they end up with the 3rd price, they will receive $27 million. Even in case they lose, there is no need to get disappointed. The fourth placed team will be getting $25 million from the FIFA.
I was never in doubt of Africa causing a shocker at the years world cup, I actually thought Senegal will be the one to achieved what Morocco has achieved so far but immediately there was report of Sadio Mane been injury I knew they can't go far, I was even surprised they made it out of the group staged. Sadio Mane is a very important figure in the Senegalese team that his absence was definitely going be felt and that was the case. Now to Morocco, they almost angered us after routing for them.
There were reports of their players and fans saying they were playing for the Arabic nations and not African. I didn't take it to heart though as I still wanted them to make history which they did, now all is left is to defeat Croatia and achieved that 3rd position which no African teams has ever achieved. Atleast with that achievement people won't underate African teams at the tournament again and come 2026 with Africa having a possibility of 11 representative, we can definitely caused more shocker and probably win the tournament (yes it's possible) because we'll be having all strength at the tournament.