Real Madrid star Brahim Diaz has chosen which national team he will represent, Cope journalist Arancha Rodriguez reported, citing anonymous sources.
Brahim was born in Malaga, southern Spain, but is also eligible to play for Morocco due to his father’s nationality.
Raised by a Spanish mother and raised in his country, Brahim is a young foreigner from Spain and was inspired by the 2016 and 2017 European Under-17 Championships.
Brahim even made his debut for La Roja on June 8, 2021, when he scored the goal in a 4-0 win over Lithuania after the winners of more normal teams had to isolate due to contracting Covid.
Although Brahim continued to progress on loan at Italy’s AC Milan and played his first Serie A title since 2011 and his first Champions League semi-final after winning the tournament in 2007, Brahim won coolly in Spain.
At the beginning of 2023 it was announced that Brahim had plans to play for Morocco, which he also reported via MARCA in October of the same year.
But Morocco coach Walid Regragui finally called up the 24-year-old to the Africa Cup of Nations, taking into account an already pre-arranged agreement.
In fine form since returning to Real Madrid at the start of the season, Brahim hopes to be in Luis de los Angeles Fuente’s squad for friendlies against Colombia and Brazil this month.
But according to Rodríguez, Brahim will not wait any longer and, despite everything, he has decided to play for Morocco instead of Spain, of which he is “very disappointed”.
Brahim is reportedly disappointed that no one from the Spanish Football Federation, such as the RFEF, has contacted him.
This led him to change his initial concept of playing for Spain, and that can only mean the loss of the national team and the gain of Morocco in the future.
Representing Morocco, who knocked Spain out of the round of 16 of the 2022 World Cup before advancing to the semifinals in Qatar, Brahim would team up with another Spanish-born star who has to play for the Atlas Lions, PSG defender Achraf. Hakimi.
And while Spain made a mistake by not providing Brahim with enough international caps to exclude him from eligibility in Morocco, they made a masterstroke by doing so with FC Barcelona prodigy Lamine Yamal.
The 16-year-old winger, who recently signed for adidas, is no longer in his father’s homeland due to the necessary number of appearances for the senior team.