{"id":313103,"date":"2024-06-10T22:30:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T20:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/hoalid-regragui-priority-to-qualifying-for-the-2026-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T10:50:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T09:50:10","slug":"hoalid-regragui-priority-to-qualifying-for-the-2026-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/hoalid-regragui-priority-to-qualifying-for-the-2026-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoalid Regragui: Priority to qualifying for the 2026 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the eve of the match against Congo-Brazzaville, national coach Hoalid Regragui has reaffirmed the Atlas Lions&#8217; objective of staying top of Group E of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers and moving closer to qualification.<\/p>\n\n<p><br\/>&#8220;We need to win this match and finish top of our group to guarantee our place at the World Cup,&#8221; Regragui told a press conference in Agadir.<\/p>\n\n<p>He stressed the importance of an effective attack: &#8220;We need to step up our attacking game to get a good result.<\/p>\n\n<p>Regragui also stressed the need to find the right balance within the team, while using the best performing players. He mentioned Eliesse Ben Seghir as a major asset to the attack and Oussama El Azzouzi as a future centrepiece of the midfield, especially with Sofiane Amrabat bringing crucial athleticism.<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;We have a group determined to win and progress together,&#8221; he added, stressing the importance of concentration against Congo-Brazzaville if we are to secure all three points.<\/p>\n\n<p>The Atlas Lions had earlier beaten Zambia 2-1 in Agadir to top Group E on 6 points, followed by Zambia, Niger and Tanzania on 3 points each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of the match against Congo-Brazzaville, national coach Hoalid Regragui has reaffirmed the Atlas Lions&#8217; objective of staying top of Group E of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers and moving closer to qualification. &#8220;We need to win this match and finish top of our group to guarantee our place at the World Cup,&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":312886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[694],"tags":[32],"class_list":{"0":"post-313103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-team-1-m","8":"tag-a-la-une"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313104,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313103\/revisions\/313104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}