Morocco become first national team ever to achieve historic feat during Brazil World Cup draw
Morocco became the first national team to achieve a historic feat during their 1-1 draw against Brazil in Group C of the World Cup.
The AFCON champions put in an excellent performance against Carlo Ancelotti's side, with 18-year-old midfielder Ayyoub Bouaddi among those to produce a starring display.
PSV forward Ismael Saibari gave Morocco the lead in the first half, lobbing the ball over Brazil goalkeeper Alisson following Brahim Diaz's pinpoint through ball.
Brazil equalised on 32 minutes through Vinicius Junior's powerful strike into the right corner of the net.
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It wasn't exactly the performance that Selecao would have hoped for, and the result means that may need to rely on Morocco to slip up to win their World Cup group even if they win both of their remaining matches.
Brazil are one of a number of national sides in this year's competition that have their squad largely made up of players from other domestic leagues.
Flamengo's Lucas Paqueta was the only exception in their starting XI against Morocco.
Their opponents, meanwhile, didn't have a single player in their starting XI from the Moroccan domestic system.
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Three of those players - Issa Diop, Chadi Riad and Noussair Mazraoui - play in the Premier League, while ex-Leicester midfielder Bilal El Khannouss now plays in the Bundesliga for Stuttgart and Achraf Hakimi plays for Champions League holders PSG.
The only two players in the squad who play for Moroccan sides are back-up goalkeepers Munir Mohamedi and Ahmed Reda Tagnaouti.
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Alongside all 11 starters playing abroad, meanwhile, Morocco also fielded an entire XI of players born outside the country during the second half.
Nine of the 11 players were born either in Spain, France or Belgium, while Manchester United right-back Mazraoui was born in the Dutch city of Leiderdorp.
Goalkeeper Bono, meanwhile, was born in Montreal, Canada.
And manager Mohamed Ouahbi, who was managing his first competitive game against Brazil, was born in Brussels, Belgium.
Centre-back Issa Diop, who was born in Toulouse, France, represented France at every youth level up to U21, and decided to switch international allegiance to Morocco earlier this year ahead of the World Cup.
The feat was recorded on 65 minutes after Strasbourg winger Samir El Mourabet replaced Morocco-born Azzedine Ounahi.
El Mourabet, who was born in Strasbourg, came through the French club's youth academy and, at 20, is rated as one of his nation's top prospects.
The statistic lasted for 24 minutes, before Morocco-born striker Soufiane Rahimi was brought off the bench for the closing stages in New York.
Topics: FIFA World Cup, Brazil, Football
Ryan Smart