Anyone explain why RTE coverage has MAR for Morocco here?

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1. Marocco

2. MAR is their official FIFA code

3. Like ESP for Spain.

4. Morocco in French is Maroc.

5. It’s Maroc in French and a former French colony so they don’t refer to themselves by the English spelling

6. In French, the country’s name is Le Maroc.

7. I doubt RTE have anything to do with the TV feed

8. Short for Marijuana

9. Match graphics are from a world feed generated by FIFA, nothing to do with RTE

10. I pulled the Moroccan African Republic out of my arse when the Mrs asked the same.

11. Well i know that Morocco in French is spelled Maroc, so I’m pretty sure it come from this.

12. Maroc

13. It’s definitely Màroc

14. It’s not just RTE. The feed is worldwide, and MAR is the official designation for FIFA.

15. https://www.iban.com/country-codes

    Here you go mate, this is the list of country codes they use in these graphics

16. Thought this might fit here. What about poor Iran. Ohh ah up the IR…

    https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/ira-to-irn-rte-makes-iran-world-cup-change-after-gerry-adams-among-those-to-poke-fun-42173563.html

17. That’s not RTE. That’s the official World Cup tv graphic with the official abbreviation of MAR for Maroc.

18. In other news rte upsets Spaniards by referring to them as spa’s instead of esp

19. Because

20. Either way, the lads from MAR have bagged the win.

21. https://slate.com/culture/2018/06/why-is-morocco-abbreviated-mar-at-the-world-cup.html

    Cos Morrocco is Maroc in French

22. One of the irish accents pronounces it like that

23. Isn’t their name Maroc?

24. Just to clarify, as Moroccans, most of us don’t actually use ‘Le Maroc’, we use ‘Lmaghrib’ in Amazigh and Moroccan Arabic, which are our native languages. It’s not only RTE that uses MAR, you’d see it in most football matches and sporting events. French is not an official language in Morocco, but colonialism I guess.

25. In Irish, it’s maracó.

26. In Spanish it’s “Marruecos” but the RTE reference to that I don’t know

27. Because they use the [3 letter alpha codes](https://www.iban.com/country-codes) and for Morocco it’s done on the French name Maroc

28. Marty Morrissey felt that they looked like mars bars so requested the abbreviation change.

29. https://slate.com/culture/2018/06/why-is-morocco-abbreviated-mar-at-the-world-cup.html

30. I wonder who decides what each countries three letter abbreviation will be? Do the individual countries have a say in it?

31. If they had MOR
    You might think it was the government that was playing as in MORONS

32. MARRuecos in Spanish too … From french Maroc.

33. Just raging that ENG V IRA didn’t happen the other day.

34. In the north inner city we say Marocko.

    Clearly RTE has just hired Anto.

35. Brazilian TV we also have it as MAR because we say Marrocos.

36. Le Maroc