{"id":7636,"date":"2024-08-09T05:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T05:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=7636"},"modified":"2024-08-09T05:58:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T05:58:34","slug":"morocco-sweep-aside-egypt-to-win-paris-2024-bronze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=7636","title":{"rendered":"Morocco sweep aside Egypt to win Paris 2024 bronze"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Morocco won bronze in the Olympic men&#8217;s football with a thumping victory over Egypt in Nantes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tarik Sektioui&#8217;s men responded brilliantly to&nbsp;their 2-1 semi-final loss to Spain&nbsp;by recording their biggest win of the tournament to claim an Olympic medal in football for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Goals from Abde Ezzalzouli and Soufiane Rahimi gave the Atlas Lions a 2-0 lead at half-time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-c5ae603d417a471ed3ba5ef7b7dc7f6b ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/keIcjvxZZvM?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bilal El Khannouss added a third in the 51st minute before Rahimi struck his second of the match and eighth at Paris 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Akram Nakach gave Morocco a 5-0 lead in the 73rd minute and Achraf Hakimi rounded off the scoring with a fine free-kick three minutes from time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hosts France face Spain in the gold-medal match on Saturday (17:00 BST).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: BBC Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco won bronze in the Olympic men&#8217;s football with a thumping victory over Egypt in Nantes. Tarik Sektioui&#8217;s men responded brilliantly to&nbsp;their 2-1 semi-final loss to Spain&nbsp;by recording their biggest win of the tournament to claim an Olympic medal in football for the first time. Goals from Abde Ezzalzouli and Soufiane Rahimi gave the Atlas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,41,11,22],"tags":[2551],"class_list":["post-7636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-general-news","category-sports","category-world","tag-morocco-sweep-aside-egypt-to-win-paris-2024-bronze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7638,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7636\/revisions\/7638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}