“We put a TV in the restaurant and we’re managing the rosters so our Moroccan workers can watch the matches. People on the street have come in to tell us that they want Morocco to win.”
Moroccans in Ireland are dreaming of the World Cup and making history as its first ever African winners.
Dino Rafik, 58, from Casablanca, would love to win it 45 years after Brazilian legend Pele, who is ill in hospital, tipped the African continent to produce a winner.Dino told the Irish Mirror: “Our hearts believe we will win, but our brain knows it will not be easy against France.“Pele said in 1977 that an African country will win it. I would like that to happen at this World Cup for him.
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