The king of Morocco, Mohamed VI, has come out to celebrate this Tuesday through the streets of Rabat the historic victory of his country against Spain in the round of 16 of the World Cup in Qatar.
The 59-year-old monarch was seen wearing a Moroccan national team shirt while driving through the streets of Rabat in a vehicle that honked and was escorted by security agents, as seen in a video published by the Moroccan news portal Le Desk.
Mohamed VI has called the president of the federation, Fouzi Lekjaa, as well as the coach, Walid Regragui, to congratulate them on the victory, with which, for the first time in its history, Morocco manages to advance to the quarterfinals of a World Cup.
The monarch celebrated “the historic performance of the members of the national team, who have lived up to the expectations and aspirations” of the Moroccan people and has asked them to stay “on course in this competition”, in which they will face this Saturday against Portugal.
After neither team could break the 120-minute tie to zero, the game had to be decided before eleven meters, where the Moroccan goalkeeper Yassine Bounou has become a national hero, stopping up to three maximum penalties for the Spanish national team .
Mohammed VI celebrates Morocco’s victory in the streets of Rabat https://t.co/dTj06Izt08 via @LeDesk_ma #LeDesk #Morocco #Qatar2022 #MohammedVI #QatarWorldCup2022
— Le Desk (@LeDesk_ma) December 6, 2022
The connection with Cristiano Ronaldo
The King of Morocco, one of the richest monarchs on the planet, is known for his eccentricities. The close friend of King Juan Carlos and Philip VI He has a connection with the Portuguese star, the team his country will now face: a new friend and guard: Gladiador.
Is named Abu Bakr Azaitar, he is a mixed martial arts champion and is known as the “Ferrari mobster”. He has a close friendship with Cristiano Ronaldo, with whom he has even enjoyed vacations, and also with Achraf Hakimi, boyfriend of Hiba Abouk and player at Inter Milan. Cristiano Ronaldo is going through low hours after the Portuguese coach left him on the bench against Switzerland, which the Portuguese thrashed. It happened after Cristiano, in the previous game, was substituted and murmured against the coach. The boyfriend of Georgina He is, at 37 without a team, he is no longer the star of Portugal and it seems that the national team of the neighboring country plays much better without him. But at least he has his Moroccan friend left.
The most conservative block of the royal palace believes that Ronaldo’s friend, Abu, approached the king in search of riches, something that Mohamed VI doesn’t seem to bother him. His criminal history points to robbery, extortion, fraud, physical violence, criminal conspiracy, and recidivism, computer fraud, driving without a license, bodily harm causing permanent disability, assault and battery, drug trafficking, forgery and use of falsehood, and resisting law enforcement…
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Abu and the king met in 2018, coinciding with the separation of Mohamed VI and his wife, Princess Lalla Salma, in which they affirm that he also had something to do with it. Since then, officials in Rabat have leaked worrying data about their relationship to the press.
A king with 5,000 million
Mohamed VI is one of the ten richest monarchs in the world. His fortune is around 5,000 million euros, which is distributed among twelve palaces in the country and 1,100 servants for his maintenance, which represents an expense of one million euros to the state coffers. He is also the owner of the Royal Mansour hotel, one of the most luxurious in the world, with a spa of 1,500 square meters of white marble.
The king travels in two giant planes, a Boeing 747 and a Boeing 737, while his entourage, made up of about 300 people, does so in smaller ones, the Gulfstream G550 and the Gulfstream G650, valued at 57 million euros. In his garages he keeps more than 600 cars, including Rolls Royces, Cadillacs, Bentleys, Porsches or Maseratis, and he owns the Badis, one of the largest sailing yachts in the world, measuring 70 meters in length and valued at around 85 million euros. .
Meanwhile, 15% of its population lives below the poverty line (about ten million people) and the figure increases due to the Covid-19 health crisis.
The relationship between the Moroccan and Spanish royal houses was very close during the reign of Juan Carlos de Borbón, who promised Mohamed VI’s father, Hassan II, to take care of his son after his death. Mohamed VI acceded to the throne in 1999 and Felipe VI followed suit in 2014.
The Spanish monarch visited his counterpart and although everything seemed to indicate that the relationship between the two would be as close as that of their predecessors, the incident involving Mohamed VI’s jet ski complicated things. The Moroccan king was detained by the Civil Guard after mistaking him for a drug trafficker in the waters of Ceuta while he was riding his jet ski. Mohamed VI called, among others, Felipe VI to complain about the interception of his flotilla. The Spanish monarch transferred the real discomfort to the then Minister of the Interior, Jorge Fernandez Diaz. Five days later, there was the largest avalanche of immigrants on the Spanish coasts until this year, almost a thousand people in a single day.
There were no more official visits or royal pomps. King Mohamed VI’s life of excess and his scandalous divorce from Lalla Salma didn’t help either. Of course, they affirm that the relationship between them continues to be cordial and private.
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Pedro Sanchez, the new friend of Mohamed VI After his departure from Algeria and his approach to the Alaouite kingdom, yesterday Tuesday, before the defeat of Spain on penalties, he wished the best for La Roja: “I hope that today there is a victory against Morocco and they give us joy,” he said hours before the crash the president of the Government. The Chief Executive spoke these words when he was addressing the media after attending the institutional act on Constitution Day. He took the opportunity to wish the Spanish Soccer Team “hit” and “luck” in the match against Morocco, which has finally reached the quarterfinals of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Sánchez said during the celebration of the 44th anniversary of the Constitution in the Congress of Deputies that was the day of the magna carta but “also of the selection”. “Wish the coach and the members of the Spanish soccer team that they have success, luck and give us joy this afternoon,” he added hours before Spain made a fool of himself and was removed from the competition.