Fans expect an increase in the price of the “avocado” fruit after the achievement of Rakiraki in the World Cup?

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Perhaps the most optimistic in Morocco did not expect the national team to top a difficult group in the World Cup that includes Croatia, the runner-up in 2018 and world number two Belgium, especially after changing the coach a few weeks before the start of the finals in Qatar, but Walid Regragui had a mixture of success despite some belittling him. .

Coach Wahid Khalilujic was dismissed in August, although he successfully led the qualifying campaign, but he entered into disputes with prominent players and refused to include them, headed by Hakim Ziyech, the Chelsea winger, and Naseer Mazrawi, the Bayern Munich player.

Al-Rakraki, 47, was appointed on August 31, based on a good career with the clubs, as he won the CAF Champions League and the Moroccan League double with Wydad, and won with Al-Fateh Al-Rabati his only title in the league next to the Throne Cup, and the Qatari League with Al-Duhail.

His first decision was to reunite and open the door for the return of Ziyech and Mazraoui. He also brought back striker Abd al-Razzaq Hamdallah, who had been away from the national team for years for disciplinary reasons as well.

But some criticized the choice of Regraki for this task, and he was derided as “avocado head” to belittle him.

Before the Belgium match, which he won 2-0, the shaved-headed coach said in a press conference, “Some wish for the team’s defeat to say that the avocado head is responsible,” indicating that he deals with good intentions and this brings success, and he set an example by hitting a competitor’s ball on the crossbar.

Many remembered that comment when Canada’s late equalizer was denied to the crossbar as goal-line technology proved the ball had not crossed the line fully as the Regraque side won 2-1 and qualified for the last 16 of the World Cup for the first time in 36 years.
During the victory celebrations, the players gathered around Regraki and all touched his head. The coach told reporters after the match, “They like to hit me on the head. Perhaps this will bring them good luck.”

And the International Federation (FIFA) account published on Twitter a picture of Al-Rarakaki, the first Arab coach to reach the round of 16, while he was holding an avocado with a soccer ball inside it, and pointing his finger at his head with defiant features, in a message to his critics.

Comments circulated among Moroccan fans about the “avocado head effect” and cynics predicted an increase in the price of the fruit after Regragui’s achievement.

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