Morocco's game against Canada in Houston will bring a special moment for Yassine Bounou.
The goalkeeper was born in Montreal, where, back in 1991, his father was a university physics professor.
The family returned to Casablanca, Morocco, when Bounou was three years old.
Two decades later, his country of birth came calling. Canada’s then national team coach Benito Floro, who managed the side between 2013 and 2016, got in touch.
“Benito Floro asked me to come play for him,” Bounou told his then La Liga club Sevilla’s TV channel in 2022. “But I’d grown up in Morocco, played for their underage teams, and even some senior games. It was always my dream to play for them.”
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