Ezzadin Onhi, central midfielder from the year 2000, grew up as a footballer at the Mohammed VI Academy, an academy established with the King's support in 2010 with a huge financial investment (Youssef An Nasiri and Naif Agar also grew up there), and at the age of 18 he moved to French Strasbourg, where he played in the secondary team.
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After failing to make the transition to the first team and playing in the third division, he moved to Little Ange in July 2021 and there he made his debut in the first division.
This season, Unhi is indeed a regular team player, but his team is carrying the entire French league on its back, and he came to the World Cup after six consecutive losses without a goal or an assist this season.
Orlain Choamani, a back midfielder of Cameroonian origin, also born in 2000, grew up in Bordeaux, was marked from a young age, moved to Monaco, and today plays for Real Madrid - the European champions.
To date, he has been paid 98 million euros in his short career.
Unhi and Bhopal.
Against all odds, photo: Reuters
These two players represent to some extent the differences between the national teams.
On the one hand the perfect underdog, Rocky Balboa if you will, who came out of nowhere, got an extraordinary opportunity, took it and shocked the world.
On the other hand, a group of superstars who sometimes seem to be full of pleasure, let's call them "Apollo Creed", who were marked for greatness from a young age, play in the biggest clubs in the world, and reaching the World Cup final is a matter of course for them.
And maybe the story here in general is the two coaches.
Walid Regraghi, who arrived as an emergency appointment three and a half months ago after the previous coach, Walid Halilhodzic, had a dispute with some of the team's stars, coached with great success but only in Africa, and also as a player played in small teams in France and Spain.
The coach who will stand in the technical area next to him, Didier Deschamps, who in August closed a decade as a national team coach - a position he reached as a proven coach in Europe, world champion and European champion as captain of the national team - justified the aura around him when he also won the World Cup as a coach (the third in history to win on the field and on the lines), who has a selection Almost unlimited players in every position.
Regargi.
From an emergency appointment to the coach of one of the four biggest teams in the world, photo: Reuters
Rocky 1 or Rocky 2?
And with all these differences, in the depth of the squad, the quality of the players and the background of the coaches, Morocco comes to this game with the belief that it can pass as a fifth European empire after finishing above Croatia in the group stage, knocking out Belgium (two of the four finalists in the 2018 World Cup in Russia) and later passing Spain and Portugal.
In eight games under Ragaraghi, including three warm-up games before the tournament, she has yet to concede a goal from an opposing player (she conceded one own goal against Canada).
Against Portugal, bursting with talent, they overcame the lack of a leading stopper and a left defender, and later also the departure of captain Roman Saiss, and thanks to an extraordinary team defensive game, reduced Portugal to only three kicks per frame.
In general, in the current tournament only 10 kicks were kicked towards the frame of Morocco, an amazing balance of 2 kicks on average per game.
The struggle between Morocco and France is a struggle between two complete opposites.
Between a team that does the minimum to win the maximum and one whose connection between its players and the coach brings out unimaginable powers.
In the first film in the series, Rocky Balboa wins over the audience against all odds, takes the flashy, undefeated champion to the limit, but loses the fight on points.
So it could be that this is what will happen to Morocco, who comes to the game injured and exhausted, and that the French will end their amazing Cinderella story.
But I do not rule out that with the power of inertia and the amazing crowd of the Moroccans, Morocco will skip the end of Rocky 1 and jump directly to the end of Rocky 2, and she will be the one who will remain standing when the referee counts to 10, because in this World Cup we have already seen - anything can happen.
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