Morocco defeats New Caledonia 16 to 0 in the U-17 Championship and achieves the largest victory in the history of the World Cup

The Moroccan national team for under 17 years It beat New Caledonia 16 to 0 In the World Cup Championship held in Qatar. And so he achieved The biggest win ever recorded in a FIFA World Cup final Of any class and gender.

The African team overcame Spain’s 13-0 defeat by New Zealand in the 1997 U-17 World Cup in Egypt to conclude the group stage with a defeat that did not help them mathematically reach the next round: they finished third in Group B behind Japan and Portugal.

Now they aspire to enter the next stage as one of the best third parties.

The sending off of Tevan Druko and Jan Kanhjemez, who received a direct red card in the 22nd and 31st minutes, respectively, may have affected the final result. But the match was not equal between the two teams at any time.

When Canhemez left the field, Morocco was leading 3-0. In half an hour New Caledonia conceded that number of goals and in the next 60 minutes they conceded 13 more.

The Moroccan national team players shared the goals as follows: Walid Ben Salah, Abdel-Ali Daoudi, Ziad Baha, Nahil Haddani, Abdullah Wazzan, and Ismail Al-Oud, and they scored a brace; Bilal Sukkrat, Elias Haddawi, Zakri Al-Khalawi, and Stevie Andrew completed a historic milestone with a goal each.

Qatar 2025 is FIFA rehearsal Facing what the year 2026 will be for adults in the United States, Mexico and Canada. For the first time, 48 participants are participating in the World Cup.

Like few times in history, FIFA showcases its product portfolio all over the world. Not only did it launch the Club World Cup, but it also redesigned and expanded the scope of the Senior Men’s World Cup.

The competition began with the participation of 13 and 16 teams between 1930 and 1950. Between 1954 and 1978, the number of teams was 16, and then the number has become 24 since 1982.

This continued until 1994, and from 1998 to 2022 the number was increased to 32. To complete the globalization of the World Cup, the World Cup Administration Gianni Infantino decided to raise the number to 48. This system will debut in 2026, and the Under-17 World Cup in Qatar will be FIFA’s final test to improve the details, with the added excuse being that more and more teams can have World Cup experience.

The Under-17 World Cup was divided into twelve groups of four teams each, and at least four examples of teams not being able to keep up with their opponents appear.

What happened in New Caledonia, after Sunday’s victory, is clearer. On the first date, they lost 6-1 to Portugal, and on the second day, they beat Japan 0-0. They finished the group stage with one point, 22 goals against themselves and one goal. The only scream hit him Ezekiel and Amoy.

Added to this post Haiti (No points, 2-12, still to face Venezuela) and Honduras (Similar numbers to those achieved by the Haitians, with 0-7 against Brazil and 2-5 against Zambia, and they still have to play Indonesia).

The most similar case to New Caledonia is the case of Fiji: Who finished his participation in the fourth group without points, with 20 goals to none in his favor. Their path includes a 7-0 loss to Argentina.

The more games, the more TV. The more TV, the more revenue. Footballers’ complaints about calendars and number of matches (in this format there will be 8 and not 7 for those who reach the final stages) have not been heard in the meantime.

In fact, there was already an intention that the 2030 World Cup, in addition to being held in 6 countries on 3 continents, would involve 64 teams.

To Carlos Bilardo’s already well-known statement about the future of football in Africa, irrefutable facts are added. This expectation of the Mexico 86 world champion coach may have begun to take shape in Italia 90, when Cameroon were the first team to reach the quarter-finals.

Or when Nigeria won the Olympic medal in Atlanta in 1996, as Cameroon did in Sydney in 2000.

But so far, it is Morocco, with a fourth-place finish at the World Cup dedicated to Messi, an Olympic podium in Paris, and a World Under-20 title in Chile, against Argentina, no less, that is setting the tone. Another proof of this is that it was the first team from the continent to qualify for the next World Cup.

In addition to the natural talent and its players spread across the world’s top leagues, working within borders is the biggest driving force for those who aspire to the top.

The Mohammed VI Football Complex, which was inaugurated by the King on December 9, 2019, after the rehabilitation work of the former National Football Center in Maamoura, which took more than three years and required an investment of 75 million dollars.

This 35-hectare property is home to 27 national teams for men’s and women’s football, futsal and beach soccer from under-13 to senior levels. Its location is strategic, as it is only three kilometers from the capital’s airport, which makes travel easier for any delegation. This was, for example, one of the aspects that Carlos Bilardo took into account in 1987 when choosing the land that would later become the property of the Argentine Football Association and which was five kilometers from the Ezeiza airport terminal.

It employs 200 people, and has 11 natural, artificial and hybrid turf fields, including a dazzling field covered with FIFA-certified artificial turf. It also contains five accommodation buildings (one of which is used exclusively by the senior men’s and women’s teams) with a total capacity of 510 beds, a restaurant, a gym, an outdoor Olympic-sized swimming pool, and tennis and paddle tennis courts.

Moroccan football developed a Complete professional structure In its local competition, something it had only less than three decades ago. The 2011/12 season was the first in which rented competitions were held in the first and second divisions, after an extensive process that began in 2000 and in which clubs, the Royal Football Association, the national government and local administrations participated.

Morocco will be one of the host countries for the 2030 World Cup, along with Spain and Portugal, in addition to the “cooperation” of Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. This will be the centenary tournament, a century after the first 13-team World Cup, with Europe’s gates closed, long boat journeys and Argentina losing 4-2 to Uruguay in the final.