Morocco crowned the African Nations Football Cup for Junior U-17 for the first time in its history at the expense of the Mali team, with a penalty shootout 4-2, after the end of the original match time in a negative tie between the two teams.
The two teams maintained the cleanliness of their nets throughout the two halves in the Al -Bashir stadium in the city of Muhammadiyah, in central Morocco, while the Atlas Lions scored the four penalty shootouts through its players Ziad Baha, Zakari Al -Khalawi, Amin Al -Wahhabi and Elias Belmokhtar.
On the other hand, Nadjikura Bomba and Timoko Perte recorded my Mali, and was lost by Kita and Issa Koni, two kicks for Mali.
The Lions of Atlas snapped the title with the same scenario, its superiority over the Mali team in the semi-finals of 2023, when 6-5 won the penalty shootout after the meeting ended in a negative tie.
As for the Mali team, he was unable to win the title for the third time in its history in the fourth final in which he is running, as he crowned the title twice in consecutive in 2015 and 2017.
With this victory, the Moroccan national team became the tenth team crowned with the African Nations Cup of Junior Under -17 after Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal.
