Morocco host Brazil in a Saturday friendly as both nations take the field for the first time since the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
[Morocco's Arryadia has the match](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkSADCoyZLs) for the local side. [in eight European countries](https://www.livesoccertv.com/match/4596553/morocco-vs-brazil/), including Denmark, Norway and Sweden. — Also, on-loan Chelsea midfielder Andrey Santos gets the start as does Palmeiras 27-year-old attacker Rony. Regragui named a 30-man roster for the two matches in the March 2023 window, including 20 World Cup stars like Yassine Bounou, Achraf Hakimi, Hakim Ziyech, and Youssef En-Nesyri. It goes without saying that the 65,000 tickets were sold out well in advance. Novelty.— OptaJoao (@OptaJoao) Also, despite all the chatter of not being 100 percent, Achraf Hakimi starts at right-back for Morocco. 30 mins from kickoff: The teams are warming up right now. Mazraoui — 7-Ziyech, 8-Ounahi, 4-Amrabat, 23-El Khannouss, 17-Boufal — 19-En-Nesyri [pic.twitter.com/seDsEvdFaa] [March 25, 2023] Meanwhile, the Atlas Lions will face another South American side in Peru on March 28 in Madrid.
Morocco return to home soil for the first time since their World Cup heroics tonight, as they take on South American giants Brazil in friendly action.
Meanwhile, history-makers Morocco will make the trip to Madrid to face Peru in yet another friendly at Atletico Madrid's Cívitas Metropolitano on 29th March. Walid Regragui’s men will be greeted with a heroes’ welcome in Tangier for their first game since the third-place play-off defeat to Croatia in Qatar. The Atlas Lions, for one, will be full of confidence after their outstanding exploits in the recent showpiece tournament.
Brazil's leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who was due to head to China for key talks with President Xi Jinping, has indefinitely postponed his trip ...
He went into remission after undergoing treatment. The official visit had been set to begin on Tuesday with his meeting with Xi, at which Lula had hoped to promote his proposal for mediated talks to end Russia’s invasion of the country. Lula, who succeeded the far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro at the start of the year, had hoped to use the trip next week to reclaim his country’s role in global diplomacy, with discussions in Beijing expected to focus on reinforcing trade and the war in Ukraine.
Brazil may be back on the world stage. That is at least the hope of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who pledges to try to reverse his predecessor's ...
KAHN: He says Lula should use his international prestige as a defender of the environment and to get China to help fund preservation. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Thiago de Aragao, an international business consultant in Brasilia and Washington, D.C., says the idea of Lula as a peace broker is ridiculous. KAHN: Gomez's family-owned beef and pork business sends 40% of their exports to China. KAHN: Lula is also proposing being a mediator in the Ukraine War. That is at least the hope of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who pledges to try to reverse his predecessor's isolationist policies. The U.S. And as NPR South America correspondent Carrie Kahn reports, Lula is headed to China, and that makes some in the West nervous. Lula pushed his trip back a day after catching a mild pneumonia on Thursday, but the two leaders do plan to meet on Tuesday in Beijing. There are dozens of other countries that have more conditions to do that. His refusal to strongly condemn Russia's invasion or sell ammunition to Ukraine irks the West, and so does his upcoming trip to China. Oliver Stuenkel, an international relations professor at Brazil's FGV University, says Lula is just following Foreign Policy 101.
Morocco showed why they caused so many teams trouble in Qatar as they overwhelmed a mix-and-match Brazil side.
The Selecao looked like a team in friendly mode while Morocco looked ready to compete, leading to several scuffles throughout the match. Facing off in a friendly on Saturday, Brazil were undone in a 2-1 defeat thanks to goals from Moroccan stars Sofiane Boufal and Abedelhamid Sabiri. Maybe what we all saw in Qatar wasn't a miracle.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has canceled a high-profile trip to China for medical reasons, and the March 27-31 visit will be rescheduled, ...
He was to travel with a large delegation including a half-dozen Cabinet ministers, plus governors, lawmakers and 240 business leaders. The trip, which was to include a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, was viewed as a significant effort by the new leftist president to enhance relations with Brazil's largest trading partner. The Brazilian government has informed the Chinese authorities of the postponement and its intention to reschedule the visit.
Their first challenge: Brazil, this Saturday at the Ibn Batouta Stadium in Tangier, Morocco. Head coach Walid Regragui is pleased with the friendly match ...
And we know that, in life, it's all about the opportunities we have. But what's good is that we can take more risk than at the World Cup. We can take the risk because it's a friendly match, even if the goal is to win", said Morocco's head coach.
Brazil's president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has indefinitely postponed his trip to China and key talks with President Xi Jinping so he can recover from ...
The discussions in Beijing were expected to focus on the reinforcement of trade and the war in Ukraine. He went into remission after undergoing treatment. [Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva](/news/2023/1/1/lula-inauguration-president-brazil), has indefinitely postponed his trip to [China](/economy/2023/3/23/china-lifts-brazilian-beef-import-ban-ahead-of-lulas-visit) and key talks with President Xi Jinping so he can recover from pneumonia, the presidential palace said.
Brazil's presidential palace says that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has canceled his trip to China after contracting pneumonia.
Sergio Moro, who was the lead judge in the Carwash trials which led to the arrest of prominent politicians including Lula. The Brazilian president and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping were scheduled to meet next Tuesday. in February, marking a departure from Brazil’s foreign policy under former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who showed little interest in international affairs or travel abroad. His press office later confirmed that the trip had been canceled. Chinese authorities have been informed, “with the reiteration of the desire to schedule the visit on a new date,” the palace said. Lula, 77, was admitted to a hospital in the capital of Brasilia with flu-like symptoms and was diagnosed with “bacterial and viral bronchopneumonia due to influenza A,” the palace said in a statement, quoting a medical note signed by Dr.
Brazilian leader was diagnosed with bacterial and viral bronchopneumonia caused by influenza A, and treatment has been initiated.
The press secretary released a medical note stating that after a clinical evaluation, Lula was diagnosed with bacterial and viral bronchopneumonia caused by influenza A, and treatment has been initiated. Lula's five-day visit to China was billed as a reset of relations with his country's largest export market, which was marred during the term of his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro. Brazilian leader was diagnosed with bacterial and viral bronchopneumonia caused by influenza A, and treatment has been initiated.
Morocco stunned Brazil 2-1 in a friendly international on Saturday as the north African side recorded a first ever win over the five-time world champions.
Until Saturday, Morocco had suffered defeats in their only two other meetings with Brazil -- 2-0 in a 1997 friendly and 3-0 in the group stages of the 1998 World Cup in France. The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) hopes to be able to announce the name of its new coach before the start of qualifying for the 2026 World Cup in September. Only 10 of the 23-man squad that took Brazil to a disappointing quarter-final exit at the World Cup made the trip to Morocco for the game.
Brazil may have slumped to their second-ever defeat to an African side but, for a team without a permanent coach, there were positives to be taken.
Brazil enjoyed the best of the first half hour, especially with occasional quick combinations of [Vinicius Junior](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/252107/Vinícius-Júnior), [Rodrygo](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/267804/Rodrygo) and [Lucas Paqueta](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/234715/Lucas-Paquetá). Teenage midfielder [Andrey Santos](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/314858/Andrey-Santos) was not overawed on debut, nor, as we have seen, was Rony. [Emerson Royal](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/246844/Emerson-Royal) were exposed. [Eder Militao](https://www.espn.com.au/soccer/player/_/id/228402/eder-militao) gave a sound performance in his first game as Brazil's senior centre-back. [Yassine Bounou](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/175149/Yassine-Bounou) into a gibbering wreck. [Palmeiras](/soccer/club/_/id/2029/palmeiras) coach Abel Ferreira from an erratic winger to a versatile figure capable of operating wide, in the penalty area or work back down the flanks. The shooting position did not look great, and neither was the shot, but it squirmed through Bounou and over the line. Just over three months later they went down 2-1 to [Morocco](/soccer/team?id=2869) in Tangiers -- a [2-1](/soccer/report/_/gameId/665817) debut win for the Moroccans over Brazil and a wonderful way for the Atlas Lions to enjoy the party they were hosting to celebrate reaching the semifinals in Qatar. Brazil were worth their equaliser some 25 minutes from time, even if it needed some collaboration from the Morocco keeper. The best of their team is the quick little exchanges they play from the flanks, and one such move broke the deadlock. While they wait for the next coach to step in (with [Real Madrid](/soccer/team?id=86) boss Carlo Ancelotti on top of the wishlist), Under-20 manager Ramon Meneses was in charge, almost certainly for this game only. If Morocco were at full strength, Brazil hardly have the means at the moment to define full strength; they are in a strange phase.
The proposal could be announced during President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's visit to Beijing next week, although government officials said there were still ...
for investment in this area," Mr da Silva's top foreign policy advisor Celso Amorim told Reuters. Ms Silva said, however, that China will not join the billion-dollar Amazon Fund started by Norway to finance sustainable development and protect the world's largest tropical rainforest, which Spain, France and Britain are looking at joining and the US has committed to supporting. "Our expectation is that we can have a climate change agenda that is strategic for the world because it is undoubtedly one of humanity's greatest challenges today," Ms Silva told Reuters.