{"id":605962,"date":"2025-12-01T20:35:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/605962\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T20:35:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:35:25","slug":"lamine-yamal-chooses-spain-over-morocco-for-real-shot-at-winning-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/605962\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamine Yamal Chooses Spain Over Morocco for \u2018Real Shot\u2019 at Winning World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FC Barcelona forward Lamine Yamal said he chose to represent Spain instead of Morocco because he believed Spain offered a better chance of competing for, and winning, the World Cup. The 17-year-old spoke about his decision in an interview aired on CBS News\u2019 60 Minutes on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Yamal, who was born in Spain to a Moroccan father and Equatoguinean mother, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/lamine-yamals-extended-60-minutes-interview-in-spanish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acknowledged<\/a> that he briefly considered Morocco, especially after the Atlas Lions had made it to the 2022 World Cup semifinals. But, he said, ultimately he had \u201cno doubts\u201d about choosing Spain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/worldwatercongress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tangermed Passagers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-11-20-at-17.47.57.jpeg\" height=\"600\" width=\"300\" style=\"border-radius: 4px;\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith all the love and respect I have for Morocco, I\u2019ve always wanted to play in Europe,\u201d he said. European football provides greater visibility and closer access to major international competitions.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tangermed-passagers.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Tangermed Passagers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/300x250-BilletFerme-VANG-1.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"300\" style=\"border-radius: 4px;\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FC Barcelona forward Lamine Yamal said he chose to represent Spain instead of Morocco because he believed Spain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,166840,15217,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-605962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-football-in-morocco","11":"tag-lamine-yamal","12":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115646230844950155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}