Morocco coach Vahid Halilhodzic announced, on Thursday, a list of 27 players in preparation for 3 matches this month in the African qualifiers for the World Cup “Qatar 2022”.

The list witnessed the presence of the name of the young Chelsea goalkeeper, Sami Al-Telmisani, aged 17, for the first time.

Tlemcen is descended from an Algerian father and a Moroccan mother. He also holds French citizenship. He was entitled to represent Algeria, or Morocco, and even France, which played for its small Sunni groups, but he chose to defend the colors of his mother’s home team, Morocco.

The Moroccan national team list knew the absence of Tlemcen’s Chelsea colleague, Hakim Ziyech, for disciplinary reasons, while Youssef Al-Nusairi, the Spanish player of Seville, was called, despite his injury.

The list was as follows:

Yassine Bounou, Mounir Elmohamady, Anas El-Zeniti, Sami El-Telmisani, Ghanem Sayes, Ashraf Hakimi, Adam Massina, Nayef Akrad, Ayoub Amloud, Sofiane Karwani, Sofiane Chakla, Sami Mayi, Sofiane Amrabet, Ayman Barkouk, Salim Amlah, Imran Loza, Faysal Fagr , Elias poet, Abdo Al-Harawi, Sufian Rahimi, Ashraf bin Sharqi, Ayoub Al-Kaabi, Munir Al-Hadadi, Sufian Boufal, Youssef Al-Nusairi, Abu Khalil, Rayan Mayi.

The Moroccan team will play in the third and fourth rounds of the African qualifiers for the World Cup in Qatar, against Guinea Bissau on October 6 and 9, and then play the postponed match of the second round against Guinea on the 12th of the same month.