Morocco Coach Walid Regragui is now targeting the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations title after finishing fourth at the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
The Atlas Lions became the first African nation to reach the semi-finals of the World Cup, before they suffered defeat to defending champions France.
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The North African giants had to settle for a fourth-place finish after losing 2-1 to Croatia in the third-place play-off on Saturday night.
However, Regragui is already shifting focus to next year's Africa Cup of Nations, which is scheduled to take place in January 2024.
“I told my players that we cannot be kings of the world before being kings of our continent,” Regragui said, as per Goal.
“We’re now going to work on winning the Afcon.”
“Tomorrow [Sunday] morning we will take stock, and realise we all made a fantastic achievement here. We played Croatia twice, one of the top three teams in the world. We played against Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium and Canada, that’s wonderful.”
“We have an objective of winning the World Cup one day. Morocco showed we can go toe-to-toe with these teams. We are now one of the top four teams in the world.”
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