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🚨 Official: Morocco have a new manager for the World Cup
Mar 05 2026 23:12 · By onefootball.com · 37 Reads
Morocco has announced that their new head coach will be Mohamed Ouahbi.
– Thursday, 5 March 2026
Walid Regragui resigned as Morocco's head coach, leaving the bar very high with an Africa Cup final and a World Cup semifinal. In fact, he published a farewell video.
– Thursday, 5 March 2026
Subsequently, to replace him, the Moroccan Federation reached a verbal agreement with Jorge Sampaoli, according to 'Footmercato', but that agreement was never finalized.
– Thursday, 5 March 2026
It didn’t happen because the replacement will be Mohamed Ouahbi, who began his coaching career in the youth sector at Anderlecht before making the leap in 2022 as Morocco’s U-20 coach, and later also the U-23 coach.
📸 JAVIER TORRES - AFP or licensors
In fact, Mohamed recently led Morocco to victory at the U-20 World Cup , a title they claimed after surprising the entire world.
However, 'MARCA' points out that the possibility of Xavi Hernández eventually coaching the 'Atlas Lions' after this summer’s World Cup is not ruled out.
This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here.
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