Morocco has fired its soccer coach Vahid Halilhodzic simply three months earlier than the nation competes within the World Cup finals in Qatar.
The announcement by the Moroccan soccer federation on Thursday ends months of hypothesis over the destiny of the Franco-Bosnian coach, who has now suffered the extraordinary feat of being fired 3 times by nationwide groups after they certified for World Cup finals.
“Given the differences and divergent visions between the Royal Moroccan Football Federation and national coach Vahid Halilhodzic on the best way to prepare the national football team for the Qatar 2022 World Cup, the two parties decided to separate,” the federation stated in an announcement.
“I will not return to the national team.”
After being ignored of the AFCON squad, Hakim Ziyech has introduced his retirement from the Moroccan nationwide staff. pic.twitter.com/gpK8FunqVc
— B/R Football (@brfootball) February 8, 2022
Halilhodzic’s potential departure had been the reason for a lot hypothesis since Morocco’s tepid exhibiting on the Africa Cup of Nations finals in January and, particularly, his fall out with star midfielder Hakim Ziyech.
Last yr Halilhodzic, 69, accused the Chelsea participant of feigning harm to overlook out on mid-year pleasant matches and left him out of the World Cup qualifying marketing campaign and the Cup of Nations finals.
But federation president Fouzi Lekjaa has been urgent for a return of the Dutch-born midfielder amid a public outcry at his absence, placing him at odds along with his coach, who was appointed to the Morocco job three years in the past.
Halilhodzic’s brusque method was cited as the rationale for Japan firing him after he had certified them for the final World Cup in Russia. He was dismissed simply two months earlier than the 2018 finals with the Japanese Football Association citing “communication” issues and claiming he had misplaced the belief of his gamers.
Halilhodzic, who performed for Yugoslavia on the 1982 World Cup and was later a profitable striker in France, was additionally dismissed by the Ivory Coast forward of the 2010 finals in South Africa and changed by Sven Goran Eriksson. That got here after the Ivorians had fared poorly on the Cup of Nations finals some six months earlier than the World Cup.
He did take Algeria to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the place they got here near an upset victory over Germany within the final 16.
Morocco is predicted to call its former worldwide Walid Regragui as its new coach. He led Wydad Casablanca to the African Champions League crown in May.
