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Basil McDaddy

Bassil Mikdadi is a Palestinian sports journalist and founder of Football Palestine, covering Palestinian football and the intersection of sports with politics and identity.

Jun 9, 2026

15:06
What do you feel like the Moroccan coaches have brought to the Jordanian national team?
15:11
I think they've, they've got a lot of experience.
15:13
Both Hassan Ammouneh who guided the Jordanian team to the, uh, 2023 Asian Cup that was held in January 2024, and then his successor, Jamal Sellami, that got the team to the World Cup, got them to the final of the FIFA Arab Cup, have just a ton of pertinent experience, right? So we're gonna talk about a, a national team now that they never expected to be at the World Cup, but Sellami as a player was part of that 1998 team with Morocco that was at France 19, uh, 1998.
15:38
So he can tap into that.
15:39
He can tap into the fact that he's coached, uh, big Moroccan sides to, to continental glory in Africa.
15:45
So they bring, I think, a level of professionalism, a level of experience that you wouldn't get with a local coach.
15:50
But I would also say this, Jordan has experimented with bringing in European coaches, but every single time they've had success.

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