Little more than two months before the start of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Morocco appointed a coach who was little-known outside the country's own league system.After replacing Bosnian Vahid Halilhodzic, Walid Regragui was on a path to becoming one of the most inexperienced managers to lead a team at any World Cup.As a yardstick of time, Louis van Gaal was finishing his second spell as Netherlands head coach at around the same time thatRegragui was beginning his club managerial career.The bold Troy Reeder Jersey move paid off. Morocco became the first African side to reach the semifinals, and along the way, and putting on a .MORE: Regragui started out coaching Rabat clubFath Union Sport (FUS) and had a spell in Qatar, but it was at Moroccan club Wydad where he made his name, beating the Egyptian two-time defending champions Al Ahly to win the African Champions League in 2021/22.That saw him dubbed , and he is now only the second Moroccan to take charge of his country at a World Cup. His predece sor in that respect lost all three games at the finals in 1994.One ofRegragui's finest achievements NFL Los Angeles Rams Jersey has been to reintegrate Chelsea's Hakim Ziyech and Bayern Munich's Nou sair Mazraoui back into the side following international exiles for both players, who are now key to Morocco."Before, it was just the Moroccans who supported us," the 47-year-old said before orchestrating a deserved on penalties in the Round of 16. "Now, it is the Africans and Arabs." Getty Images Following his retirement from playing,Regragui actually started out in the national set-up as a sistant to former head Jacob Harris Jersey coachRachid Taou si during his brief reign in late 2012 and early 2013.He won the Moroccan Throne Cup and the top flight, the Botola, during his time with FUS from 2014-19, followed by a Qatar Stars League trophy with Al-Duhail in 2020.Another Botola triumph followed alongside the CAF Champions League with Wydad in 2021/22, when he was named the best Moroccan club manager for a second time.MORE: Regragui played 45 times for Morocco between 2001 and 2009, finishing as a runner-up in the Africa Cup of Nations in 2004.The right-back was born in France and turned out for five Jared Hocker Jersey French clubs during his career, winning Ligue 2 withAjaccio in 2002 and having a spell with Spanish side Racing Santander between 2004 and 2006.Morocco did not appear at a World Cup tournament while Regragui was an international. The country's football sights are set somewhat higher now that he is in charge."We tell this to our kids: that you have to have dreams," said Regragui as he looked ahead to the knockout stage."Africa has never won a World Cup. Why not give them this dream? In 20 or 30 years' time, maybe Morocco or Senegal Los Angeles Rams Hats will win the World Cup and then you will look back and say: 'He did say that.'"