Kevin Blackistone, Sports Journalist:

Well, the significance is that they won with players who were the progeny of colonization, the progeny of their occupiers, in this case, Spain, which along with France that had colonized and occupied Morocco for many, many decades. And so, I thought that that was really, really jumped out to me, because it’s about — as I’ve watched the World Cup over the years, and I recall specifically being in France for the final back in 1998. It’s the number of foreign players who wind up starring for European teams and carrying them to glory. And this particular time, it’s the other way around. And we have the foreign-born players deciding to play for their ancestral home, and finally bringing them to the — to some glory.

And so, you have Morocco here breaking through with people who are Moroccan, who could have played for other countries, but decided to play for their motherland. And for the first time now, we have an African side, it’s going to be in the Final Four for the World Cup.