I think that was one of the biggest surprises of the tournament. They literally made history, being the first African nation to reach to the semi finals of the world cup.
Another surprise was of course Saudi Arabia winning against the future world cup winner, Argentina.
And I think there were a few other results that no one was expecting. It was a pretty entertaining world cup.
Yes, absolutely! In fact Morocco played as if that game was the last game of their lives, literally they played above their 100%.
If Morocco had the same tactical and quality level as an elite team, for example Brazil, France and Argentina, and if they played with the same determination that they had in this World Cup, I have no doubt that they would be champions!
Several friends and I thought about this possibility.
I even forgot to comment, in my opinion Japan also surprised the world, because they beat Germany and Spain and managed to take Croatia to the penalties in the "round of 16", but unfortunately they lost.
Well, the conclusion I can reach is that football has become a sport widely known and practiced all over the world, and several countries are getting special attention to football, which proves what I said are the unexpected results we had in this last world cup.
The trend of national teams from outside Europe and South America achieving great results at world cups did not start with Morocco in Qatar, but with South Korea at the 2002 World Cup.
South Korea was then fourth in the world, as was Morocco at the world cup in Qatar.
Ghana came very close to the semi-finals at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, but unfortunately lost the quarter-final match against Uruguay, when they failed to score the winning goal from the penalty spot in the last minute of the game.
In fact, at every World Cup, a few teams surprise and we see a few surprising results.
Japan was not a surprise to me at this world championship at all, I remember how 4 years ago in the round of 16 they played a great match against Belgium and in the end they unfortunately lost.
At this world championship, I was most surprised by the success of Morocco and the disappointing results of Germany, Belgium and Denmark.