Brahim Díaz has chosen to play with the Moroccan national team to the detriment of the Spanish team, according to Marca. The Real Madrid player was born in Malaga, where his mother is also from, and his father was born in Melilla. But his paternal grandmother is originally from the African country, which has opted more firmly than the Royal Spanish Football Federation to defend its national team.
Continuing with the information from the sports newspaper, Brahim’s decision to join ‘The Lions of the Atlas’ is firm and there is no turning back despite the fact that the footballer was waiting for the red card call until the last moment.
“Everyone is free to make decisions. I absolutely respect their position,” the Spanish coach, Luis de la Fuente, explained at an event about Brahim before slipping that the Real Madrid player had asked for favored treatment to be called up: ” I have always said that there are three maxims when it comes to being a selected player. That he can play with the national team. That he wants to play. And that the coach selects him. The most important thing is to want, without demands, without conditions. With equal rights and obligations with the rest. With that starting point you will always find me. Away from that starting point you will always have me in front of you.”
The striker was on Luis de la Fuente’s pre-list for the friendlies that Spain will play in March against Colombia and Brazil, according to EFE, but it is already too late. “I haven’t said anything. I call or I don’t call,” added the Rioja native about whether he had called Brahim.
On the other hand, the calls from the Moroccan coach, Walid Regragui, and the interest shown by the Maghreb Federation, especially its president, Fouzi Lekjaa, who is also important in the country’s Government, finally convinced a Brahim who has been meditating for months. your decision. The decision could be official by being included in the next list of the African team for the friendlies against Angola (March 22) and Mauritania (March 26).
Morocco has promised to be the headliner of a project that has great objectives on the horizon. Morocco, which already played a great role in the last World Cup in Qatar, being the surprise and reaching the semifinals of the tournament, will host the Africa Cup in 2025 and in 2030 it will organize the World Cup together with Spain and Portugal.
Brahim went through the Spanish youth ranks and even made his debut with the senior team, and scored, in the match in which the U-21s faced Lithuania in Leganés on June 8, 2021, due to Sergio’s positive coronavirus Busquets that left the team then led by Luis Enrique confined.
The Asturian coach summoned Brahim on November 5, 2021, when he was playing for AC Milan, for the last two qualifying matches for the 2022 World Cup, against Greece and Sweden, but did not give him minutes. Since then the Malaga midfielder has not been mentioned again.
“I won’t go with the first one who calls me, it’s not like that. I’m focused on Madrid where I’m having few minutes and I want to have more,” said Brahim the last time he was asked about his situation, last November, after a match with the real Madrid.
