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By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Writer, Abuja
Celebration Time…Moroccan players celebrate one of their goals in the match.
Nigeria’s group opponents in the forthcoming CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), Tunisia lost woefully to host country, Morocco 3-1 over the weekend in one of the international friendly matches played across the world including the African continent as part of the 2025 FIFA women’s international match windows.
Prompt News reports that Morocco’s senior women’s national football team delivered a strong performance with a heartwarming 3-1 victory over Tunisia in a friendly match held Friday at the Père Jégo Stadium in Casablanca.
Morocco’s Yasmine Lamrabet broke the deadlock with a goal in the 39′, giving the Atlas Lionesses the lead going into halftime. Although Tunisia equalized shortly after the break through Sabah Cheikh in the 48′, Morocco quickly regained control. Ibtissam Jraidi restored the lead in the 50th minute, and Iman El Ghazouani sealed the win just five minutes later with a well-placed third goal.
The match was part of Morocco’s preparations for the upcoming 2025 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations (WAFCON), which the country is set to host this summer. The national team is intensifying its training and competitive readiness through a series of international friendlies. The Moroccans will also face Cameroon on Tuesday in another high-profile friendly, as the squad continues to fine-tune its strategy and lineup ahead of the continental tournament.
Last month, the Moroccan side also defeated Ghana 1-0 in another preparatory match, signaling a solid build-up to WAFCON and raising hopes for a strong performance on home soil.
Elsewhere, Egypt thrashed Jordan 3-0 at home while Ivory Coast trounced Kenya 2-0 at Stade Félix Houphouët Boigny in Abidjan as many African countries that qualified for WAFCON 2025 have been busy playing international friendly matches since January 2025, especially Nigeria’s group opponents Tunisia, Algeria and Botswana.
For example, Tunisia utilised the February international match window to play two friendly matches against Kenya drawing 0-0 and losing 0-1 on February 21 and 26 respectively just as Botswana lost to DR Congo 0-2 on February 20 and 26, and another 0-2.