The Royal Moroccan Football Federation (RMFF) has had three players who had already been selected by Morocco in the U17 category “stolen”. But the Belgian Football Federation, seeing the danger coming, overtook the FRMF by enlisting these three binationals.
Young goalkeeper Elias Mago, central defender Samy Tory, and striker Camil Mmae slip through the fingers of the RMFF. These three players were part of the list of binationals followed by the Federation and with whom it even started negotiations. But that’s without taking into account the Royal Belgian Football Federation, which organized an international tournament in Spain to which it invited some young players of Moroccan origin. Belgium took advantage of the non-summons of these players by the Moroccan U20 national team for the African Cup, to recruit the trio, reports Assabah.
Elias Mago, Samy Tory and Camil Mmae evolve with the U21 of Standard de Liège. They were all at the last U17 Morocco gatherings, but with the recent changes in the lists of Morocco’s youth teams, many binationals preferred to seize the hand extended by European countries. But some have received pressure from their club who opposed their decision to wear the colors of Morocco.
According to the daily Assabah, Samy Tory and Elias Mago did everything to play with the Atlas Lions, but the fact of having been dismissed by the national coaches recently weighed heavily on the Belgian federation.
