{"id":332650,"date":"2025-11-25T08:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/?p=332650"},"modified":"2025-11-25T09:27:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T08:27:40","slug":"yassir-zabiri-je-ferai-tout-pour-meriter-ma-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/yassir-zabiri-je-ferai-tout-pour-meriter-ma-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Yassir Zabiri: \u201cI\u2019ll do everything to earn my place.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A breakout star of the U20 World Cup and scorer of a brace in the final, Yassir Zabiri spoke to the Spanish daily AS<\/em>, reflecting on his journey, his ambitions, and his admiration for Spanish football. At just 20 years old, the Moroccan forward from Famalic\u00e3o is now seen as one of the most promising talents of his generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A dream come true<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFootball is everything I have,\u201d says Zabiri, still riding the momentum of his U20 World Cup title. Trained in Marrakech and later at the Mohammed VI Academy, he considers the latter to be the real turning point in his life: \u201cI owe a lot to the Academy. We had everything we needed to become professionals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aguerd\u2019s influence and the strength of the team<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Very close to Nayef Aguerd, Zabiri highlights the impact of the senior national team defender during the tournament: \u201cNayef talked to me almost every day. His humility and experience inspire all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He recalls his brace in the final with emotion: \u201cWhen I scored the free kick, I couldn\u2019t believe it. And the second one\u2026 I don\u2019t even remember how I celebrated!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He also points to the staff\u2019s preparation: \u201cWe knew Argentina would try to provoke us. We never fell into the trap.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The senior national team on his mind<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Zabiri does not hide his desire to take the next step: \u201cI\u2019m ready, but the decision is up to Hoalid Regragui. My job is to play, improve, and show what I can do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He dreams of participating in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco: \u201cWho wouldn\u2019t dream of a home AFCON? I\u2019ll do everything I can to earn my place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LaLiga and Bar\u00e7a, his inspirations since childhood<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A lifelong FC Barcelona fan, Zabiri shared with AS<\/em> his deep admiration for Spanish football: \u201cLaLiga is beautiful and spectacular football. Messi is a legend for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His offensive role models include Luis Su\u00e1rez and Antoine Griezmann, whose versatility he admires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ambition and loyalty to Marrakech<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Zabiri ultimately aims to join a \u201cmid-tier or big\u201d club playing European competitions: \u201cThe demands of top clubs push you to progress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But he keeps a personal dream close to his heart: \u201cOne day, I\u2019d like to return to KAC Marrakech with enough strength to truly help the club.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Humble, hardworking, ambitious, and already decisive in key moments, Zabiri continues to confirm that he is one of the emerging faces of Morocco\u2019s golden football generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A breakout star of the U20 World Cup and scorer of a brace in the final, Yassir Zabiri spoke to the Spanish daily AS, reflecting on his journey, his ambitions, and his admiration for Spanish football. At just 20 years old, the Moroccan forward from Famalic\u00e3o is now seen as one of the most promising<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-332650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rest-of-europe","8":"category-reste-europe"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332650","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332660,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332650\/revisions\/332660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}