{"id":505322,"date":"2026-09-25T23:17:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T21:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/soufiane-rahimi-scores-and-pays-tribute-to-his-father\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T23:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T21:30:17","slug":"soufiane-rahimi-scores-and-pays-tribute-to-his-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/soufiane-rahimi-scores-and-pays-tribute-to-his-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Soufiane Rahimi scores and pays tribute to his father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soufiane Rahimi experienced a particularly emotional moment this Friday during Morocco&#8217;s victory against Gabon. Coming on during the match, the Atlas Lions striker scored Morocco&#8217;s second goal in the 84th minute before paying tribute to his father, who passed away a few weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p>After finding the back of the net, Rahimi took out and held up a photo in memory of his father in front of the cameras. It was a celebration filled with emotion for the Moroccan international, who has been deeply affected by this loss that occurred at the beginning of September.<\/p>\n<p>On the sporting front, his goal allowed Morocco to double their lead after Noussair Mazraoui opened the scoring in the 36th minute. The Atlas Lions ultimately won 2-0 against Gabon in their opening match of the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Rahimi, father of Soufiane and Houcine Rahimi, was a well-known figure in Raja Casablanca, a club to which he dedicated several decades. His passing also prompted numerous tributes within Moroccan football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soufiane Rahimi experienced a particularly emotional moment this Friday during Morocco&#8217;s victory against Gabon. Coming on during the match, the Atlas Lions striker scored Morocco&#8217;s second goal in the 84th minute before paying tribute to his father, who passed away a few weeks earlier. After finding the back of the net, Rahimi took out and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":505317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[32712,115],"maw_player":[],"class_list":["post-505322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-equipe-a","tag-sofiane-rahimi","tag-soufiane-rahimi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505322","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505324,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505322\/revisions\/505324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505322"},{"taxonomy":"maw_player","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/maw_player?post=505322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}