Morocco thrashed fellow North African side Egypt 6-0 to win a bronze medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics on Wednesday.
Abde Ezzalzouli scored the opening goal for the Atlas Lions in the 23rd minute from Zakaria El Ouahdi’s assist at the Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes.
Soufiane Rahimi became the first player to score in all six games at the Olympics to double the lead three minutes later.
Bilal El Khannouss finished from Ezzalzouli’s assist to make it 3-0 in the 51st minute.
The goals continued to rush in for the World Cup semi-finalists as Rahimi converted his second of the match.
Akram Nakach and captain Achraf Hakimi sealed a 6-0 win for Morocco as they won their first medal in football at the Olympics.
Ghana won Africa’s first football medal at the 1992 Olympics before Nigeria claimed the continent’s first gold medal at Atlanta in 1996.
Cameroon won Africa’s second gold medal at Sydney 2000 while Nigeria completed a hat-trick of medals with silver at Beijing 2008 and bronze at Rio 2016.
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