"France is more African than Morocco" is the trending phrase in Africa today. Reasons is that Morocco failed to mention Africa when they qualified for the semi finals. Yet Morocco is still an African team and if it won the World Cup in 2022 it will have been glory for Africa.
Morocco is the only African team that qualified for the semi finals. They were to face it out with France, a game played Yesterday. However France won over the African team with a 2-0 margin. The two goals were scored by Theo Hernandez and Hugo Lloris. They dashed the the hope of Morocco playing in the finals.
France now will battle it out with Argentina for the World Cup winners trophy. World Cup is an event where the whole world stops to watch as the teams battle it out till they get the winner.
FIFA World Cup was founded in 1930 and has been with us for 92 years. The team which will win this year 2022 will join other winners like
- Uruguay 1930
- Italy 1934
- Italy 1938
- Uruguay 1950
- West Germany 1954
- Brazil 1958
- Brazil 1962
- England 1966
- Brazil 1970
- West Germany 1974
- Argentina 1978
- Italy 1982
- Argentina 1986
- West Germany 1990
- Brazil 1994
- France 1998
- Brazil 2002
- Italy 2006
- Spain 2010
- Germany 2014
- France 2018
From the table Brazil has won 5 times, Uruguay 2 times, Italy 4 times, Germany 4 times, Argentina 2 times, France 2 times, England 1 time and Spain only once. Now in this 22nd Anniversary of FIFA World Cup it is either Argentina or France to win the third time. If Morocco would have qualified and won, it would have been the first time for an African country to win. Otherwise they did well and congratulations to them.