Surprise .. "FIFA" backs down and allows Mounir El Haddadi to carry the Moroccan national team shirt

Striker Mounir El Haddadi will be summoned to the next Moroccan national team camp, after benefiting from the recent "explanatory notes" of the International Federation of Football Associations related to the dual-national players, according to what a source in the Moroccan Football Federation confirmed to (AFP).

The source said that "Mounir Al-Haddadi will be called to the national team in the coming period of the International Federation days designated for playing international matches."

The Moroccan national team is scheduled to play its next match against its host Mauritania in the African Nations Cup qualifiers on March 22nd.

FIFA issued a memorandum to all sports federations containing a set of explanatory notes published last Thursday on the law on changing the player's nationality, which was approved by the General Assembly last September. Matches his status with the new notes.

Al-Haddadi can carry the colors of the Moroccan national team because he did not represent his previous team, Spain, after his twenty-first birthday, and three years have passed since his last participation with him.

Last November, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected the appeal of the Seville player, after being denied by FIFA to represent the national team of his country, Morocco.

He participated in a previous camp with Morocco in the suburbs of the capital, Rabat, before the Senegal and Congo countries last October, but the decision of the International Federation prohibited the representation of his country.

And he had obtained a similar decision before the 2018 World Cup that prohibited him from playing the World Cup with Morocco.

Al-Haddadi, 25, played with the Spanish national team one game when coach Vicente Del Bosque joined him as a substitute in the 79th minute against Macedonia (5-1) on September 8, 2014 in the European Cup 2016 qualifiers. It was at the height of his footballing debut with the first team. For FC Barcelona.

Al-Haddadi expressed his great happiness and said in a press statement: "Very happy, it is a pride after all the work we have done to change my situation and enable me to play with Morocco. I have a great desire and I hope to have a lot of fun with the national team."

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