I can still vividly remember watching the 2006 World Cup final between France and Italy, my whole family jammed into our living room. I have been a football or as my American colleagues insist on calling it, “soccer” fan, since birth.
The World Cup means everything to many young kids in Africa in general and in Morocco in particular. Back in my hometown, Marrakech, everyone watched the World Cup, and by that I mean EVERYONE, even the people you’d least expect. For as long as I can remember, the World Cup has always been about showing pride in who you are and what you had to offer to the world.
Now, twenty years later as the 2026 World Cup is underway, the importance of the event...