Nigeria is no doubt a power house in African football, but in the recent years Nigeria looks like a Shadow of its self from the domestic league, to the female teams and even the super eagles with abundant talent couldn't qualify for Qatar 2022 world cup

As we seek to revive the fortunes of the team can we look as a thriving model here in African... Below is an article I think can help.


"Morocco Reaping the dividends of Sustained Planning


Morocco’s victory over Spain last night to reach the quarter final stage of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar did not come on a platter of gold. It was the result of a deliberate and sustained planning to reach where the Atlas Lions are today.

This a stroll down the memory lane of what the Royal Moroccan Football Federation have done to now be reaping the reward here in Qatar.

In July 2022, Morocco hosted a FIFA Talent Development Scheme workshop as part of the Talent Development Plan launched by FIFA’s Chief of Global Football Development Arsene Wenger in 2020. The country demonstrated a strong desire to continue its development, making resources available to the youth sides that represent the future of Moroccan football.

During the workshop, the President of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation Fouzi Lekjaa said: “The development of football in Morocco should be based on a three-pronged approach focusing on facilities, talent and well-qualified staff. My Federation colleagues and I are certain that these three elements must be in place to ensure proper development.”

Moroccan football is starting to reap the rewards of the Federation’s good work, achieving great success at all levels of both the men and women’s game.

The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 has been a dream come true for the Atlas Lions, who topped their group to qualify for the round of 16 and become the first African team to earn seven points in a FIFA World Cup group stage, all while being led by a Moroccan coach.


Morocco have also had a lot of recent success in Futsal, winning the 2020 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations and winning their first ever FIFA Futsal World Cup matches at Lithuania 2021, defeating Solomon Islands 6-0 and Venezuela 3-2, before being knocked out in the quarter-finals after a 1-0 loss to Brazil.

According to Coach Hicham Dguig, reaching the quarter-finals was “a great achievement after facing very strong opposition”. The Moroccan Federation played a key role, providing the team with support and hosting friendlies against teams like Argentina and Brazil.

The Moroccan Federation is not focused on men’s football alone, paying plenty of attention to the women’s game as well. The COVID-19 relief plan under the FIFA Forward Programme made grants of 500,000 dollars available to each member association in order to assist women’s football.


These funds enabled Morocco to restart women’s football. Since then, they have achieved impressive results, reaching the final of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations 2022 hosted in their own country only to miss out on the title after losing to South Africa. They defeated Nigeria’s Super Falcons at the semi-finals. The Atlas Lionesses also qualified for Australia and New Zealand 2023, their first ever FIFA Women’s World Cup. There was success off the pitch too, with record attendances confirming the country’s strong interest in women’s football.

Morocco women’s U-17 side also had success this year. Not only did they qualify for their first ever FIFA U-17 World Cup finals, but they recorded their first win in the competition, beating hosts India 3-0, finishing third in their group behind United States and Brazil.

A key reason for this success is that the Moroccan Federation’s interest goes beyond the senior men and women’s teams, continuing its short-, medium- and long-term work to prepare for the future.


Perhaps the most significant milestone in its development plans was the opening of the Mohammed VI Football Academy in 2019. The Academy is spread over 30 hectares and features state-of-the-art facilities and equipment that comply with FIFA standards.

Without a doubt, the Academy played a huge role in the development of this excellent U-17 team and their qualification for the biggest tournament in the world. This defeat of Spain is just the new chapter in Moroccan football history. "

From Robosky02

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https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/12/07/morocco-reaping-the-dividends-of-sustained-planning/

The development of football in Morocco is based on a three-pronged approach focusing on


1. facilities,

2.talent and

3 well-qualified staff.


If Nigeria NFF like will do same we can go far our leagues should have better facilities stadiums, TV rights etc, the talents and many here let's fetch them enough of monitoring and convincing players born in Europe and of caused get the best coaches for the national teams and make enabling environment for local coaches to upgrade their license

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Kudos to Morocco.
Fact is; most excellent schemes that worked elsewhere, often fail in Nigeria because we have failed to rise above Tribalism, Nepotism, etc thereby relegating Competence & Merit to the background.

WibusJaga:
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Kudos to Morocco.
Fact is; most excellent schemes that worked elsewhere, often fail in Nigeria because we have failed to rise above Tribalism, Nepotism, Religious Differences etc thereby relegating Competence & Merit to the background.

Football is the major unifying force in Nigeria

I believe we can make it

Talent Development Scheme gains new ground in Morocco




The Moroccan Football Association (FRMF) is making great strides in developing the country’s young talent, pointing the way for others to follow

FRMF president points to three key elements: facilities, talent and qualified personnel


With five FIFA World Cup™ appearances to its name and a sixth to come at Qatar 2022, a thriving domestic scene and a clutch of clubs regarded as continental heavyweights, and a solid reputation for producing dependable defenders, creative midfielders and stylish forwards, it is no exaggeration to say that Morocco is a hotbed of talent.

It was in this football-loving country that FIFA held a June workshop devoted to the Talent Development Scheme (TDS), which was launched in February 2020 by Arsene Wenger, FIFA Chief of Global Development. More than 50 development specialists and regional technical advisers attended the Mohammed VI Football Academy to discuss talent development strategies, share best practice, and prepare the ground for the rest of FIFA’s member associations to support the scheme.

The Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) is devoting all its energy to these goals, as its president, Fouzi Lekjaa, made clear in his opening speech at the seminar: “The development of football in Morocco is founded on a triangular approach that should form the basis of the development of any system: facilities, talent and qualified personnel. Along with my colleagues at the FRMF, I am convinced that those three fundamentals have to be in place for the process to develop as it should.”



National and regional elite
The FRMF is delivering on its promises, focusing first of all on facilities both nationally and locally. A high point in its development plans came with the 2019 opening of the Mohammed VI Football Academy, which covers 30 hectares and boasts the latest facilities and equipment – all of it compliant with FIFA standards. The jewel in the crown of Moroccan football, it is one of the biggest and highest-achieving sports academies in the world.

In the meantime, the Moroccan authorities have also been developing local facilities, as Lekjaa revealed: “We have a team overseeing development across the country’s 12 regions, starting with talent detection, with young players attending club academies. That’s why we’ve made such a big effort to make sure clubs have their own academies.

"The regional academies are the same as the national academy, just smaller. The best players from the regions go to the centre of excellence, which has coaching and medical staff who work with young players spotted in grassroots football and take them up to the next level. That’s the way our development cycle is designed. It starts with talent detection at grassroots level, with that talent then channelling into the clubs, the regional academy and on to the national centre of excellence.”

Fouzi Lekjaa, President of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation delivers speech at the FIFA Talent Development Scheme workshop

In conjunction with the development of facilities and as part of the talent detection process, the FRMF is also in schools, trying to close the net as tight as it can and make sure that no potentially gifted individuals slip through it. “We’ve embarked on a sports studies programme with the Ministry of National Education to create school structures across the country that can accommodate boys and girls who play football all the time, offering them a timetable adapted to every level of schooling,” added Lekjaa.

“Morocco is a young society and our young people have raw talent,” continued the FRMF president, who also said that that the Moroccan climate is ideal for playing football. “We are trying to deliver maximum added value in footballing terms so that we can take that raw talent at the age of ten and allow them to express it and raise their game. The idea is to prepare them for life as professional players and for them to kick on and join clubs.”

An example to follow

The talent is there and the facilities too. All that is needed are qualified people to ensure that potential is harnessed to the full. “If the game is going to develop, we need to have professional staff with the ability to deliver,” added Lekjaa. “That’s the vital link that we’re working on and investing so much of our energy in, all with a view to closing the gap and giving everyone the opportunity to enhance their skills with training delivered by the National Academy at both amateur and professional level.”

Fouzi Lekjaa, President of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation at the FIFA Talent Development Scheme workshop
As a result, Morocco is leading the way with the Talent Development Scheme, setting an example for others to follow, as FIFA technical director Steven Martens confirmed. “The Moroccan FA is very important for FIFA and football in Africa, not just because of its facilities but because of its programmes, the president’s vision and the quality of its training.

Convinced that the country’s investments will pay off, Martens added: “I know you are anxious for things to happen and are expecting big results but there is no question that the work Morocco is doing now will yield results in the long term. Those results might even come in the medium term. After all, you staged the CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations this year, you have qualified for the 2022 World Cup, and your youth teams are starting to put some excellent performances together.”

Impressed by the welcome they received and the facilities, the workshop’s participants had an ideal setting in which to explore the themes raised. ”As a high-performance specialist involved in the TDS project, I’d like to congratulate the Moroccan FA on its amazing facilities. The association and its president had the vision to build this infrastructure with the aim of developing talented young players,” commented former Portugal striker Nuno Gomes, while ex-France defender Mikael Silvestre hailed the quality of the national academy: “It is outstanding. It’s lush and green, the pitches are ready and the working environment is first class.”

Steven Martens (L), FIFA Director of Global Football Development speaks at a Talent Development Scheme workshop in Morocco

A chance for everyone
The workshop gave Martens and his team the perfect opportunity to explain the importance of the TDS and FIFA’s development programmes. “The TDS is a scheme designed for everyone. It seeks to give every talented player a chance,” he said. “It’s a scheme in which we have consultants taking part along with experts, coaches from around the world, former players, former coaches and former directors of football. We are here to train the leaders of today and to prepare them. Some 154 countries have already signed up for the scheme and it is vital that we help each and every one of them at their own level."

Based on an innovative study on talent development launched two years ago, the TDS ties in seamlessly with FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s 2020-2023 Vision: Making Football Truly Global. As part of this second phase and in line with the study’s results, national associations can focus on specific aspects of their development needs.

“By way of example, the idea of football development at school has taken root among CAF member associations,” explained Martens. “It’s a great idea but a huge challenge too. It involves all the associations and all the countries organising a regular schools competition that could perhaps lead into international competitions. The most important thing, though, is local activity and giving young people the chance to meet up and play regularly.”




“Thanks to the scheme, we are starting to give a chance to every talented player because we believe that to be in the interests of every national association,” he added. “Every association wants their national team to do well, but there’s a lot more to football development than just a path to the top. You have to make sure players stay in the game and are excited by it.”

In Morocco, that excitement is spreading across the nation.


https://www.fifa.com/football-development/news/talent-development-scheme-gains-new-ground-in-morocco

My kind of football Model Development

Ok

Arab money, Arab football, Arab technology, Arab Oil Arabs to the world. Those hating Qatar hosting right are now support Morroco to do Africa proud. Including our wailing wailers.

Good

Nonsense

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This country don cast

To me it is just their time to shine. Just nigeria football leaders are too corrupt.

robosky02:



Football is the major unifying force in Nigeria

I believe we can make it

Corruption is the main problem. Corruption won’t let things work

Morocco is smiling because they paid the price and invested heavily in their sports sector.

None of us here can mention one thing or sector that has enjoyed proper investment in Nigeria other than Terrorism!

All these long story.
They were playing trash until they changed their coach
The young coach who is barely 3 months on the job is the secret to their success

What if Morocco didn't qualify?

Hope they will park buses against Portugal?

North African football teams are cool

robosky02:



Football is the major unifying force in Nigeria

I believe we can make it

No we can't!

He is right on the money!

Tribalism and religion will never allow Nigeria put merit and competence first.

Even the coming elections are already tilting in that same backward direction.

robosky02:
The development of football in Morocco is based on a three-pronged approach focusing on


1. facilities,

2.talent and

3 well-qualified staff.


If Nigeria NFF like will do same we can go far our leagues should have better facilities stadiums, TV rights etc, the talents and many here let's fetch them enough of monitoring and convincing players born in Europe and of caused get the best coaches for the national teams and make enabling environment for local coaches to upgrade their license

In Nigeria unfortunately, it is always square pegs in round holes

Realists:
Arab money, Arab football, Arab technology, Arab Oil Arabs to the world. Those hating Qatar hosting right are now support Morroco to do Africa proud. Including our wailing wailers.

is Morocco in Middle East or Africa??

For that useless player saying they won for arabian world there own don finish be that

Tribalism finished Naija soccer

Nigeria can never hit that type of progress because of the mentality of the governing body of our football,why will you pick an Aboki to play football by all means even when you know he is not good on the pitch but because of that our mentality of balancing the squad with the whole region we won't move ahead..

WibusJaga:
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Kudos to Morocco.
Fact is; most excellent schemes that worked elsewhere, often fail in Nigeria because we have failed to rise above Tribalism, Nepotism, Religious Differences etc thereby relegating Competence & Merit to the background.

religious difference as how just two religion Muslim Christian dominate yet u guys keep screaming religious differences... Even with quota system u can still achieve great... EPL has quota for home grown talents has that stopped EPL being the best brand in the world...?

Nigeria would have qualified if they have not sacked Rhor. And this thread will be unnecessary. However given the harsh situation of the country I don't know how sports will develop further. Besides organisations now prefer to sponsor Bbnaija rathar than sports promotion or education development.

Story story. We love story story too much in Nigeria. We love living on potential too much. Always sleeping Giant of Africa, never working Giant or even struggling toddler.
You want to copy Morocco in football, when you have not copied them in 24 hours electricity.

32 years after you started big time cheating at u17 and u21 world cups you still never enter World Cup Quarter Final.

Nonsense and ingredients.

Corruption will kill any model you adopt.

From scouts talent hunt to the NFF and supuer eagle,
Everything is full of corruption.

Nigeria problem and other African teams problems do not need much diagnosis to be resolved. You cant use a product rejected in Europe to contend with Europe's best. Africans teams are fond of using players sitting on the bench in European teams to form bulk of their team players. A player sitting on the bench in Europe cant contend against the said players who benched him in Europe.
Africans need to source their best talents from their local leagues.
If given the chance Orji Uzor Kalu can pick only players in Nigerian league to win world cup or perform beyond the highest reach of any African team at the senior world cup.
Use players playing regularly and not players sitting on the bench. Use our raw strength to the fullest and not the technicality of Eupropean football.