As soon as the referee’s whistle announced the end of the World Cup semi-final, with France’s victory over Morocco on Wednesday, there was a lot of talk on social media about a “conspiracy theory”, whose owners claim that the “Lions of the Atlas ” were his victims.
Others, however, have downplayed the allegations of “selling the game” before it starts, noting that rumors of conspiracies are not new in the world of football.
The “absence of the Emir of Qatar” from the Morocco-France match attracted the interest of the “conspiracy theorists”, and it was he who attended the matches of the Moroccan national team in the previous rounds, raising the flag of the kingdom, second to that that are circulating.
This tweet swears that the outcome of the match was decided before it started and claims that “the way the Moroccan national team plays and the game plan” raises questions.
By God, I will repeat and repeat, by God, France won before the match started, the absence of the Emir of Qatar is not noticeable, who attended all of Morocco’s matches and did not attend a game as for France? Then Macron, there would have been if he hadn’t had guarantees before the match, then the way he played Morocco and the plan with which he entered, apart from that you’re surprised. pic.twitter.com/5D5YZU4BM1
– Hassan Hassan (@HassanH62508580) December 15, 2022
I wonder, what is the reason for the absence of the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad, from the France-Morocco match in the semifinals, and is he one of the biggest supporters of Arab teams since the start of the tournament?
The photos of the Emir of Qatar after Morocco qualified for the semi-finals. #Morocco_France #World_Cup_Qatar_2022 pic.twitter.com/whcokdsCra
– Ahmed Fawzi – Ahmed Fawzi (@AFYemeni) December 14, 2022
And the Qatar News Agency had announced on Wednesday that the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, met with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, at Al Bayt Stadium, where the match between the Moroccan team took place and the French one.
His Highness the Emir meets the President of the friendly French Republic, who is visiting the country to attend part of the league matches #World Cup Fifa #Qatar2022 at Al Bayt Stadium #Qena #Diameter #France pic.twitter.com/FzTmvODROS
– Qatar News Agency (@QatarNewsAgency) December 14, 2022
Away from Doha, enthusiastic fans have found a link between France’s victory in the match and the arrival of a French minister in Morocco, to coincide with the match, and his announcement of his country’s renewed support for Morocco in the question of the Western Sahara.
On Friday Catherine Colonna, on an official visit to Rabat, announced the end of the visa crisis which has been troubling diplomatic relations between Morocco and France for over a year.
This tweet supports the suspicions of the “conspiracy theorists”, indicating that there is a relationship between simultaneous events, without providing evidence of the validity of his opinion.
He says: “In one day I announced the organization of the Club World Cup in Morocco.
2 End of visa crisis between Morocco and Morocco.
3 France confirms that it will not change its position in support of the autonomy initiative.
in a day :
1 Announcement of the organization of the Club World Cup in Morocco.
2 End of visa crisis between Morocco and Morocco.
3 France’s statement that it will not change its position in support of the autonomy initiative.
(Conspiracy theorists have something to strengthen their position 😭)— Hassan ⛥ (@Hassan_khalile) December 16, 2022
Is it a coincidence?
🚨 France supports Morocco on the Moroccan Sahara issue 🇲🇦
🚨 The visa problem will be solved once and for all with France 🇫🇷
🚨 Morocco is getting organized #Club World Cup February 2023 🏆 pic.twitter.com/4tAowuBZX0— 𝔐𝔲𝔥𝔞𝔪𝔪𝔢𝔢𝔞𝔪𝔪𝔢𝔢𝔬 December 16, 2022
France announces the end of the visa crisis with Morocco
My Moroccan brothersThe team’s match was sold out pic.twitter.com/aW1z6Eytjc
-ghita🇲🇦✌️🇲🇦✌️🇲🇦 (@ghita966932621) December 16, 2022
And the “conspiracy theory” was reborn on Friday, after the Swiss president of the FIFA International (FIFA), Gianni Infantino, announced in a press conference that Morocco will host the FIFA Club World Cup between 1 and 1 February 11, 2023.
It will be the third time Morocco has hosted the Club World Cup after 2013 and 2014, noting that the latest version was hosted by the United Arab Emirates and Chelsea crowned it.
The conspiracy theory was not limited to the Moroccan public, but was spread by Arab activists and its resonance reached others outside the Arab world.
And this young man repeated the same questions in French about why Macron watched the Morocco-France match, claiming, according to the attached translation of the video, that the French president knew the outcome of the match in advance.
The owner of the video expressed his surprise at not counting “two penalty kicks” for Morocco.
However, on the other hand, there are those who believe that losing to Morocco is normal in football.
Losing Morocco is normal, the idea of antiquity
The absence of the Emir of Qatar, perhaps due to propaganda promoted by the French media to tarnish Qatar’s image before the World Cup. Qatar’s refusal to increase gas supplies to France
French minister’s visit: Hadi Rah is a country, okay, a fence, if he came to enter, it will definitely be a program before the game 👇— Oum Anfale🥑 (@Oumanfale) December 16, 2022
As for the owner of this tweet, he calls on football fans to rise to the level of the Moroccan national team and move away from the “conspiracy theory”, noting that it is not the first time such rumors have spread, but rather it has already accompanied other sporting events in Morocco.
The national team has risen to a high level.
We would like the public to keep up with the level and stay away from conspiracy theory and compound ignorance theory.
“Click Whores”
French politics really intervened
Indeed, in 2004, Tunisia and Morocco understood, voting for the title.
In fact, Brazil 98 played Balani with Norway.— Don (@don10ouss) December 15, 2022
The Moroccan journalist, Abdallah al-Turabi, wrote in a Facebook post that the worst thing “that afflicted us in the public debate” was the “conspiracy theory”. He said, “The conspiracy theorist comes up with questions inspired by his imagination of him, without any evidence, and he demands you answer!!”
On Thursday, the Moroccan Football Federation announced that it had filed an official complaint with the International Federation of Games for an “referee injustice” to which it was exposed in the match against France (0-2) on Wednesday in the semi-finals of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, according to reports reported by France Press.
Morocco had hoped to crown their historic World Cup career in Qatar by reaching the final, but the adventure ended in the round of 16, losing to holders France, 0-2.
On Saturday, the Atlas Lions take on Croatia to determine third and fourth place in the tournament.
