{"id":322006,"date":"2022-12-06T16:27:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T19:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=322006"},"modified":"2022-12-07T16:30:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T19:30:32","slug":"morocco-the-first-arab-team-in-world-cups-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/morocco-the-first-arab-team-in-world-cups-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco the first Arab team in World Cup\u2019s quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The Moroccan national team beat Spain 3-0 in a penalty shootout on Tuesday (6) in the 16<sup>th<\/sup> round of the competition. The Atlas Lions made history as the first <strong>Arab<\/strong> team to reach the <strong>quarterfinals<\/strong> of a World Cup. Spain was eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Morocco reached the round of 16 of previous World Cups, and Morocco\u2019s only other trip past the group stage was in 1986, 36 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morocco<\/strong> is also only the fourth <strong>African <\/strong>team to reach a World Cup\u2019s quarterfinals, following Cameroon, Senegal and Gana. None of them moved on to the semifinals. The last time an African team played the quarterfinals was in 2010, when Gana lost to Uruguay on penalties in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>If it moves to the next phase, Morocco will be the first Arab and African team in a World Cup\u2019 semifinals. In its best campaign in history, the team led by Moroccan coach Walid Regragui will play against the winner of tonight\u2019s clash between Portugal and Switzerland on 10 December.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/morocco-sole-arab-team-advancing-to-world-cup-round-of-16\/\">Morocco: Sole Arab team advancing to World Cup round of 16<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-322007\">Keita Iijima\/Yomiuri\/The Yomiuri Shimbun via AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moroccan national team beat Spain on penalties, becoming the first Arab and fourth African team to reach this stage of the tournament. The country made history in Qatar and is set to face either Portugal or Switzerland on Saturday (10).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":322007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[21638,31203,37272,23860,30856,9731,3260,31204,12625,9558,6128,3047,37327],"class_list":{"0":"post-322006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-2022-world-cup","9":"tag-copa-2022-en","10":"tag-copa-catar-en","11":"tag-copa-do-mundo-en","12":"tag-fifa-en-2","13":"tag-fifa-en","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-futebol-en","16":"tag-marrocos-ar","17":"tag-morocco-en","18":"tag-qatar-world-cup","19":"tag-world-cup","20":"tag-world-cup-quarterfinals"},"wps_subtitle":"The Moroccan national team beat Spain on penalties, becoming the first Arab and fourth African team to reach this stage of the tournament. The country made history in Qatar and is set to face either Portugal or Switzerland on Saturday (10).","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}