Morocco disassociates itself from the controversy over Lamine Yamal with a statement

The drop, by injury, of Lamine Yamal with Spain lit the controversy between Morocco and The Red by the presumptive interest of the African selection in convincing to the extreme of the FC Barcelona to play with the ones of Walid Regragui. In this sense, the Moroccan Federation issued a communiqué for desligarse of the controversy and deny the information filtered by the newspaper 'ACE' where, supposedly, the African body looked for presionar to the juvenile culé.

"The Real Moroccan Federation of Football (FRMF) denies categorically the false information published in the Spanish sportive newspaper ACE in his edition of the Tuesday 10 October 2023", prays the communiqué. Likewise, it added that the information of the half Madrilenian especula openly without any proof, by what no descarta some legal action by part of the maximum body of the Moroccan football.

The note of 'ACE' that desató the controversy

The Tuesday, 'ACE' ensured that "the Federation norteafricana even did him an economic offer, that did not attend the footballer, so that it accepted to play to the orders of Regragui before the coordinator of the Spanish inferior selections visited him in Barcelona". In front of this information, the FRMF did not take in issuing a communiqué to deny to the Madrilenian newspaper.

In this regard, the message spread by the Moroccan Federation adds that the note of 'ACE' "does not base in any proof, since we have respected the decisions of the player Lamine Yamal, as the ones of other players of Moroccan origin that chose other selections". In accordance with the normative FIFA, a footballer can play with another selection as long as it do not contest more than two official parties with a country. For the moment, the juvenile of the Barça has played with Spain in front of Georgia and Cyprus. With a party more, the extreme will remain 'tied' to The Red.