Thank you, Atlas Lions

The world experienced shouts of joy, as Moroccans displayed fireworks and waved their flags, whilst car horns can be heard beeping after the Moroccan national team "the Atlas Lions" succeeded in reaching the semi-finals for the first time in the history of Africa and the Arab world.

The Atlas Lions defeated Portugal with a goal without reply on 10 December, after it had managed to conquer the Spanish national team during the 2022 World Cup quarter-final clashes.

Yes, it is the young people from Morocco who dazzled the world and demonstrated the power of the Moroccans, Arabs, and Africans, and their ability to win.

Indeed, it was the Moroccan youth who made both the Palestinians and the Israelis celebrate this victory in Jerusalem at the Mughrabi Gate.

They also made world leaders call the King of Morocco to congratulate him on this massive victory; in addition to Twitter owner Elon Musk.

They are the sons of Morocco, who brought all human beings into a rare alliance of civilizations, where people from all continents found themselves taking part in a historical event celebrating outdoors and inside their homes, schools, remote villages, squares, capitals, large and small cities, often sharing similar weather conditions of Canada, America, and Europe.

The flags of Morocco were flying everywhere in Doha, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Cairo, Baghdad, Riyadh, Jeddah, Kuwait, Jordan, Libya, Beirut, Gaza, Paris, London, Madrid, Rome, Marseille, Morel, Washington, Côte d'Ivoire, Nouakchott, Senegal and all of Africa.

My personal phone kept on ringing as blessings poured from acquaintances in the Arab world, Europe, America, and Africa.

Thanks to this win, I renewed kinship ties with some people that I have forgotten and with whom share these ties.

Celebrations took different forms. Some people sang part of the national anthem, tied the names of some of the national team players with highly literary sentences, others painted portraits of the national team and Morocco, and some sent clips of scoring goals.

Some also combined the victory with historical events, and others send me photos of the celebration that they had taken with their phones from the window or squares of pilgrimage.

It is an unusual event when the king of the country and members of the royal family go outdoors to celebrate with the citizens in the streets and squares.

We are living a unique real-life epic; the Atlas Lions is the one-nation team.

Many European and Latin American countries have reached what the Moroccan team has achieved, and even won the World Cup.

However, the limits of "celebrations" did not surpass the victorious country, unlike, the victory of the Moroccan team after reaching the semi-finals, which saw the inhabitants of the globe take to the squares and streets to raise flags, perform songs, and do ululations. This event cannot be described in human language.

We are proud of you, Atlas Lions. Thank you and to a near victory, God willing.