Estifi dismantles the "propaganda" against Morocco and calls for building a proactive national media

Jamal Estifi, a journalist and sports analyst, provided an accurate anatomical reading of the artificial controversy that accompanies Moroccan football achievements, highlighting the crisis in the Morocco-Senegal match, and the media propaganda campaigns targeting the Kingdom.

Estifi, who was a guest on the “Niqash Hespress” program, deconstructed the opposing narratives, calling for building a proactive national media strategy that is not limited to reactions, but rather creates the event and establishes the facts.

The same analyst began to refute rumors linking the successes of Moroccan football to the presence of Faouzi Lekkaa in the Executive Office of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), and explained that Morocco’s return to the Confederation of African Football took place in 2017 during the general assembly in Ethiopia. Despite this membership, he pointed out that the Moroccan presence in the rest of the CAF committees is considered very small.

To drop the narrative of “nepotism,” the journalist himself returned to recent history, recalling that Moroccan clubs and national teams had won many titles before this alleged stage. He also recalled the dark era of African arbitration, citing the Moroccan national team’s match in the 1986 African Cup semi-final against Egypt.

The speaker touched on the remarkable organizational success of the African Cup of Nations hosted by Morocco, stressing in terms of numbers that it is the most widespread and watched continental event in the world, and highlighting that Morocco raised the tournament to World Cup standards, as it was organized in nine stadiums instead of the usual four.

In this context, Estifi criticized the hypocrisy practiced by some, led by Samuel Eto'o, who speaks negatively behind the scenes despite everyone's knowledge of the organizational problems (such as transportation and the condition of the stadiums that were dyed green for television) that marred the African Cup that was organized in Cameroon. He praised the poise of Moroccans, officials and media, who do not look for negatives in the host countries when traveling there.