Morocco wins the World Final of the Danone Nations Cup
at home, under the eyes of Zinédine Zidane
More than 22 000 people packed the Grand Marrakech
Stadium to support the world’s biggest international football tournament for
10-12 year old
Morocco is the winner of the 2015 Danone Nations Cup
World Final. They beat Mexico 3 – 1 in front
of a home crowd of 22 000 to clinch the trophy.
Over 400 kids from 32 countries converged on Marrakech
to participate in the world finals which were played over three days – 24th
to 26th October. There were a number of individual awards that
were also handed out. Best Player of the tournament went to Rayan n°11
from France, the Fair Play award went to the country of China, Best Scorer went
to Taiyo n°10 from Japan with 10 goals and Best Goalkeeper to another Japanese
Kai n°1. France beat the Netherlands to clinch third place.
Zinédine Zidane, Danone Nations Cup ambassador, attended the final day of play and handed out the awards
and said after the final match: “A
massive congratulations to Morocco for winning this year’s Danone Nations Cup
World Final at home. Teams all showed tremendous skill and professionalism on
the pitch and I’m very proud to be a part of this fantastic tournament which is aimed at helping children
develop their passion for football and develop respect for themselves and
others. I wish everyone the best of luck in the future and to keep believing in
your dreams.”
South Africa came to the tournament with the shortest players, but that
did not phase the youngsters when they took on a much taller and stronger
Netherlands – Drawing 0 – 0 – and then going on to beat Belgium 1 – 0, but lost
2 – 0 to Saudi Arabia which placed them second on the log which put them
through to the top 16. However, the knockout phase of the tournament was
not going to go in the young charges way. They were beaten by
Germany, Bulgaria, USA and Argentina to end the log in 16th
position.
Final log:
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1 Morocco
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12
Brazil
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23 Senegal
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2 Mexico
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13
USA
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24 Algeria
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3 France
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14
Indonesia
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25 Saudi Arabia
|
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4 Netherlands
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15 Argentina
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26 Poland
|
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5 Spain
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16 South Africa
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27 Hungary
|
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6 Canada
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17 Tunisia
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28 UAE
|
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7 Germany
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18 Belgium
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29 Switzerland
|
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8 Australia
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19 England
|
30
Russia
|
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9 Japan
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20 China
|
31
Italy
|
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10 Bulgaria
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21 South Korea
|
32
Egypt
|
|
11
Portugal
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22 Romania
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