The 2026 World Cup draw brought to mind one of the most exciting World Cup groups in football memory, after it placed the teams of Morocco, Brazil and Scotland again in one group, repeating the atmosphere of the 1998 edition after 28 years, but amid a completely different reality in terms of ambitions and balance of power.
In France 1998, Brazil entered the tournament as the most prominent football power in the world, while the Moroccan team was seeking to prove its presence on the international scene, while Scotland appeared as a team looking to leave a mark without major nominations.
Despite the strong performance presented by the Moroccan team at that time, the Atlas Lions bid farewell to the tournament in a painful manner, after a late goal by Norway upended the group’s calculations and dashed Morocco’s hopes of qualifying.
