popular Moroccan footballer

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can anyone tell me who the most popular moroccan footballer is these days?
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Originally posted by La-Casbah_com
can anyone tell me who the most popular moroccan footballer is these days?
Thanx

The Charleroi Trial

Sunday, 18 September 2005

Have you ever heard of Charleroi? The fans of sporting bets certainly have. RSC Charleroi is a football team in the first Belgian league, not too great, but not too weak either. If you haven't heard about it, there's no trouble. Charleroi is a quiet little place in Wallonia - the French speaking region in Belgium. It is the center of an urban agglomeration with almost 50,000 inhabitants. It is also called the "Ardens' Gate" and, at least until the 80's was a large mining center.

Up till now, we could have lived in peace with all these data on Charleroi. As of tomorrow, things might suffer a dramatical change because a number of judges in the above mentioned town could make some important changes in our lives. Tomorrow, the Charleroi Court of Law will hold the first term of the law suit entered by football club RSC Charleroi against the International Football Federation Association (FIFA). Mad courage? No. Because the white blacks at RSC Charleroi do not stand alone in the battle against the giant run by Blatter. The club benefits from the support of "G14" - the organization of the most powerful European football clubs.

At the end of the day, those at Charleroi are merely defending their own rights. Last November, one of its players, the Moroccan Abdelmaid Oulmers, suffered from ligament rupture during a game of the national team. He stayed off the field for eight months, a period during which, the Belgian club paid the expenses for his recovery and continued to remunerate him.

Now, the people at Charleroi attack the provisions of FIFA regulations according to which the clubs are bound to make their players available to their national teams, without damages paid in case they suffer injuries. "FIFA organizes competitions with players paid by us", is the strong point of Belgian club's plea. In legal terms, the charges refer to FIFA breaking the free competition principle by "abuse of dominating position". On the other hand, the world body defends itself by saying that anyway, 75% of the money cashed at world competitions go to the national federations (the fact that Blatter disgusted us when he expressed his satisfaction with what Mircea Sandu has done with the money received following the results of the "golden generation" is also a topic worth to be discussed separately).

What will happen in case the Charleroi club wins? The national teams of small or poor countries will simply vanish. The English Federation for example, might risk paying David Beckam's contract, in case he would suffer any injury during a match of the UK national team. So, the federations in Italy, Spain, Germany or Holland might afford calling up their most important players. Brazil and Argentina might have some trouble, but only because football has long become a religion, but no effort will be considered big enough. The rest is sadness. Africa, though, will kiss the herds of football players spread across Europe good-bye. Eastern Europe will not feel too well, either. It's hard to believe that the Romanian Football Federation will ever call Mutu and Chivu up to the national team. Even the payment of the insurance for the national team players' can cause problems considering the poor financial situation of the body run by Mircea Sandu.

National level football will simply become some kind of youth category world championships with players bound to confirm their qualities in order to be sold to European clubs. Then, these will display them in unbreakable crystal windows, in great Asian promotion tours for the most recent sport equipment or razor blade lines.

Football is heading towards world super competitions, populated by super clubs with superstars. Ten years ago, a Belgian player named Marc Bosmann won the case against UEFA claiming the breaking of the principle of labor force free circulation on the EU territory. Ever since, any European football player was able to leave his club for free or at the end of his contract, and the number of EU foreigners in a football team could no longer be limited. The transfers' speed increased amazingly, the agents hit a gold mine and the Champions' League show came to life.

Now, football has every chance of becoming a planetary scale super inter club competition. The worldwide broadcast show would be total, the amounts circulated would be stunning. And those who still think that the country means, among others, the T-shirt of the national football team, will go to bed, because, little by little their time has passed.

The ones in the Belgian town who entered the law suit know why.

[Ghazala]

Originally Posted by La-Casbah_com

can anyone tell me who the most popular moroccan footballer is these days?
Thanx

Probably Hadji or Zairi