I wish Morocco should have won the 3rd place to mark a greater history in Africa after they have made a great history getting to the semi- final in the world cup. They have really tried getting to this point.
I completely agree with you, unfortunately they didn't achieve that feat, but they played very well again.
But Morocco's defeat today does not in any way diminish the feat carried out by Walid Regragui's team in Qatar. The campaign of the Moroccan national team is the best by an African team in the entire history of the World Cups. I've been researching here not to be wrong, and before that, only Cameroon in 1990, Senegal in 2002 and Ghana in 2010 came close, but didn't make it past the quarterfinals.
Who knows, maybe in 2026 an African team won't be able to reach the final of the world cup against a "favourite" team?
I hope that FIFA will continue to give African teams more and more space to showcase their talent, as they have already proved that they have a lot.
The success of Morocco is really a huge success for African football.
I remember Ghana at the 2010 World Cup and their penalty in the last minute of extra time against Uruguay. Then they failed to score a goal and in the end Uruguay qualified for the semi-finals.
It took 12 years for an African national team to reach the quarter-finals again and get a new chance to reach the semi-finals.
After South Korea's semi-final at the 2002 World Cup, not a single Asian national team came close to reaching the semi-finals.
All this shows that the successes of Asian and African national teams at world championships are still relatively rare and that European and South American national teams are still of higher quality and more successful at world championships.