The success of Morocco at the World Cup will help grow the size of the fan base for African and Arab football, according to Manchester City winger Riyad Mahrez.
The Atlas Lions face Portugal in the last eight of the Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 on Saturday evening after defeating other European giants such as Spain and Belgium on the way. The fervour and number of their fans have been highlights of the competition and their support has extended beyond just Moroccans to Arabs across the region and the world.
“Of course, it's very good to see this team doing well on the biggest stages like the World Cup,” said Mahrez, who is Algeria’s captain and winner of the African Cup of Nations in 2019.
Morocco are the fourth African side to ever make it to a World Cup quarter-final, and they are the first Arab team to do so. They are bidding to become the first African side to reach a World Cup semi-final.
“I am really proud and really happy,” Mahrez told The National after a small-sided, quick passing, training session for Manchester City in Abu Dhabi. Many clubs from England’s Premier League have chosen to take time away during the exceptional break in the season thanks to the World Cup.
Mahrez was relaxed about the impact the time off could have of the remainder of the season after the World Cup ends on December 18. The Premier League starts again on December 26.
“There was only two weeks’ break [and then] there’s all the ones playing in the World Cup,” Mahrez said. “Everyone’s going to come back fit and come back to start again to try to achieve things.”
He signed a new two-year contract extension in the summer which will keep the 31-year-old at the club until June 2025. He is excited about his prospects for the remainder of the season.
“I’ve already scored five goals [and] I didn't play a lot, to be fair. I think the second half of the season is going to be way better for me and [bring] more goals to help the team,” he said.
He said he is also enjoying playing alongside “goal machine” Erling Haaland, signed in the summer.
“He’s a very good striker … he’s here to score goals. Really good movement and a big presence in the box. Really happy to have him,” Mahrez said of the Norwegian.
Haaland has already scored 23 goals for Manchester City in all competitions this season. He looked relaxed on the Emirates Palace pitch as he did some light training on his own before making dozens of fans, including children in City kit, happy by going over to sign autographs and pose for pictures. His teammates including Mahrez also joined in with the interactions with the fans.
For Manchester City, they have a tough fixture in the League Cup at home to fierce rivals Liverpool on December 22.
Manager Pep Guardiola told the crowd gathered after the training session, he was focused on that match first but that he was philosophical about his side’s chances of bringing more trophies to the Etihad, “especially the Premier League and arriving in the best condition in the Champions League”.
“We will see what happens … football is unpredictable [and] we will do out best,”
Most of City’s big stars have been away on international duty but there will still some familiar names in Abu Dhabi apart from Mahrez and Haaland. Veteran goalkeeper Scott Carson and German keeper Stefan Ortega are both with the squad in Abu Dhabi. As is English midfielder Cole Palmer.
Also at Emirates Palace was Sergio Gomez, who made his City debut this season, after joining from Anderlecht in Belgium.
“Now all the team has to be focused on the Premier League and the Champions League and the cups and they don't think about the World Cup you know, because the World Cup, it now is passed and now we are focused on the on the next challenge,” said 22-year old Spaniard, who can play in midfield or left-back, said.
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Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.
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Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.
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EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS
Estijaba – 8001717 – number to call to request coronavirus testing
Ministry of Health and Prevention – 80011111
Dubai Health Authority – 800342 – The number to book a free video or voice consultation with a doctor or connect to a local health centre
Emirates airline – 600555555
Etihad Airways – 600555666
Ambulance – 998
Knowledge and Human Development Authority – 8005432 ext. 4 for Covid-19 queries
MOUNTAINHEAD REVIEW
Starring: Ramy Youssef, Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman
Director: Jesse Armstrong
Rating: 3.5/5
VEZEETA PROFILE
Date started: 2012
Founder: Amir Barsoum
Based: Dubai, UAE
Sector: HealthTech / MedTech
Size: 300 employees
Funding: $22.6 million (as of September 2018)
Investors: Technology Development Fund, Silicon Badia, Beco Capital, Vostok New Ventures, Endeavour Catalyst, Crescent Enterprises’ CE-Ventures, Saudi Technology Ventures and IFC
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Anxiety and work stress major factors
Anxiety, work stress and social isolation are all factors in the recogised rise in mental health problems.
A study UAE Ministry of Health researchers published in the summer also cited struggles with weight and illnesses as major contributors.
Its authors analysed a dozen separate UAE studies between 2007 and 2017. Prevalence was often higher in university students, women and in people on low incomes.
One showed 28 per cent of female students at a Dubai university reported symptoms linked to depression. Another in Al Ain found 22.2 per cent of students had depressive symptoms - five times the global average.
It said the country has made strides to address mental health problems but said: “Our review highlights the overall prevalence of depressive symptoms and depression, which may long have been overlooked."
Prof Samir Al Adawi, of the department of behavioural medicine at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman, who was not involved in the study but is a recognised expert in the Gulf, said how mental health is discussed varies significantly between cultures and nationalities.
“The problem we have in the Gulf is the cross-cultural differences and how people articulate emotional distress," said Prof Al Adawi.
“Someone will say that I have physical complaints rather than emotional complaints. This is the major problem with any discussion around depression."
Daniel Bardsley
Moon Music
Artist: Coldplay
Label: Parlophone/Atlantic
Number of tracks: 10
Rating: 3/5
MATCH INFO
Everton 2 (Tosun 9', Doucoure 93')
Rotherham United 1 (Olosunde 56')
Man of the Match Olosunde (Rotherham)
