Bono and Achraf finalize the street triumph of Morocco

At the locker room door, Walid Regragui fired his players one by one like someone who sends a squad to the first line of fire.

The Moroccan coach merged with his players in an effusive hug that held his pupils against his chest for several seconds.

The ritual announced the start of the expected scenario.

A mostly Moroccan stand and eleven

to the assault of the opulent soccer of the European neighbour.

First with the short fuse in the disputes, as Jordi Alba was able to verify from the sole of Ziyech.

The limits of feelings are particular and from that first launch the Moroccan internationals showed that theirs had a point of feeling more than that of the Spaniards.

When it comes to detecting a young talent or matches like this, football has always been a perfect thermometer for the levels of social well-being of its protagonists.

It wasn't that the Spanish players weren't hungry for victory, the issue was the everlasting myth of David against Goliath.

The intense entrenchment of Morocco that prevented Spain from taking its first shot on goal in 20 minutes.

Arms akimbo, standing or squatting, shaking his head in disapproval of what he saw, Luis Enrique was screaming and despairing.

If his body language betrayed a coach seized and consumed by impotence, that of the Moroccan soccer players in their intense withdrawal in their own field was typical of soccer defense manuals.

Knees bent and tread on the toes to speed up movements.

Boot against boot in duels for the ball;

those of the Maghrebi players had more momentum to sweep.

Only Gavi seemed to respond to the kind of contest he had been considering.

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It is no coincidence that Andalusia is one of the few places in Spain where neighborhood football still survives.

Gavi still preserves the street codes, despite the academic sieve of La Masia through which he has passed.

But there are streets and streets and those of the populations of Morocco or those of the European immigration neighborhoods are still those of sun and moon children with a balloon.

The imperishable formula of the manufacture of virgueros, hours and hours in the defense of pride and even of an identity against the rest with a ball under the foot.

The spinning top dance to which Boufal subjected Marcos Llorente on a span of grass and his waist and acceleration games were distinctive of that denomination of origin that led Spain to extra time and penalties.

In the eleven meters, Sabiri's first throw deceiving Unai Simón from the opposite corner also had remnants of the class acquired on earth.

When he was released, the elevation of the figure of Bono continued, with his movements from side to side and some phrases to mislead.

Tricks in which Sarabia, Soler and Busquets fell, who was able to sign his last action as an international.

It was Achraf, born in Getafe, who put the finishing touches on Spain in this World Cup.

And he could not have been more streetwise and revealing than with a polished technical quality and the coldness of a gang leader.

Simon was executed Panenka style.

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