With a clean six-goal victory over Egypt, Morocco achieves its first bronze medal in football

Morocco taught their Egyptian rivals the art of the game in the third-place football match at the Paris Olympics, winning by six goals and taking the bronze medal, an unprecedented achievement for Arab teams.

The Moroccan Olympic team made history by participating in the men's football competition at the Paris 2024 Olympics, becoming the first Arab football team to win an Olympic medal in history.

The Moroccan Olympic team writes history The Moroccan Olympic football team won the bronze medal at the Paris Olympics today, Thursday (August 8, 2024), after beating the Egyptian team 6-0 in the match to determine third and fourth place in the competition.

Morocco achieved this impressive result by taking advantage of the Egyptian team's fatigue in two matches, as they played extra time against Paraguay and France in the previous two matches.

Abdessamad Ezzalzouli opened the scoring for Morocco in the 23rd minute, with Soufiane Rahimi adding the second in the 26th minute, making him the first athlete in Olympic history to score in every match his country has played, from the first leg of the group stage to the bronze medal match.

Bilal El Khannous added the third goal for Morocco in the 51st minute, before Hakimi scored again, scoring his country's fourth goal and his second in the 64th minute.

Akram Nekkach scored Morocco's fifth goal in the 73rd minute, while Achraf Hakimi scored his sixth goal in the 87th minute.

Tomorrow at the Paris Olympics, the final match will be held between France and Spain, which defeated Egypt and Morocco.

Sufyan Rahimi's achievements Rahimi is the only Olympic scorer to reach eight points, four goals ahead of his closest competitor, surpassing the achievement of Zambia's Kalushi Bwalya and Ghana's Kwame Ayew, who each scored six goals, in a single Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 and Barcelona in 1992.

The Moroccan player equaled the record for the most goals scored by an African athlete in the Olympic Games, which was held by the Egyptian Mustafa Riad, who scored eight goals in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.