The Egyptian national team achieves a historic qualification, and Morocco faces Spain in the semi-finals

The Egyptian Olympic team advanced to the semi-finals of the football competition within the activities of the thirty-third edition of the 2024 Summer Olympics, currently being held in France.

The “Pharaohs” team snatched the ticket to the “golden square” of the tournament from its Paraguayan counterpart, beating them on penalties (5-4) after they tied with one goal each in regular time of the match that brought them together today, Friday.

The biggest chapter in Egypt's national team reaching the semi-finals for the first time in 60 years is due to midfielder Ibrahim Adel, who snatched the equalizer for his country in the dead time, just two minutes before the end of the match's regular time, in response to the goal of Paraguayan Diego Gomez, which he scored at The 71st minute of the match at Stade Velodrome, Marseille.

Credit also goes to Egyptian goalkeeper Hamza Alaa, who saved a penalty kick.

The Egyptian national team will be in the semi-finals, awaiting the winner of the match between France and Argentina.

Morocco national team qualifies

In addition, the Moroccan national team qualified today, Friday, for the semi-finals of the football competition within the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, after its great victory over the American national team 4-0.

Sofiane Rahimi (29 from a penalty kick), who scored 5 goals in the tournament until this round, and Ilyas Akhoumash (63), Ashraf Hakimi (70) and Mehdi Mouhoub (90 + 1 from a penalty kick) scored the goals of the Atlas Lions team.

The Moroccan team reached the semi-finals in the Olympics for the first time in its history.

In the semi-finals, the Moroccan team will face its Spanish counterpart, who qualified by defeating its Japanese counterpart 3-0

Barcelona player Fermin Lopez opened the scoring in the eleventh minute, and the same player returned to score the double in the seventy-third minute, and Abel Ruiz extended the score to a hat-trick four minutes before the end of regular time for the match.

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