National football will be entitled to its museum which will find its place in the Mohammed VI Complex in Maâmora. In this sense, the National Museums Foundation (FNM) and the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) sealed, Monday in Rabat, a partnership agreement for the creation and management of the “National Football Museum”.
The agreement, signed by the president of the FNM, Mehdi Qotbi, and the president of the FRMF, Fouzi Lekjaa, aims to set up a cooperation and partnership framework for the creation and management of the National Museum of Football at the Complexe Mohammed VI in Maamora.
According to Fouzi Lakjaa, the site of the Mohammed VI Complex is one of the best spaces in the world of football, and the creation of a national football museum is a project that required almost a year of work, with a specially dedicated team. , with the aim of highlighting the history of national football which began in 1906.
This history of the national football will be traced extraordinarily by the exhibition of photographs, images and footballing objects, noted the president of the FRMF, stressing that the museum will offer all generations, especially young people, the opportunity to learn about the performance of Moroccan footballers.
“It is around this new generation to consolidate these successes to build a better future,” he said.
For his part, the president of the FNM said that this partnership is part of an “extraordinary” dynamic, which illustrates the sporting history of the Kingdom, “perhaps unknown by the young generation”, in a problem of memory transmission.
Qualifying the structure to come as a “successful and well-thought-out project”, Mehdi Qotbi estimated that “even in terms of space and setting, this site, which combines culture and sport, will attract young and old alike, to discover a rich history.
He was also delighted to be able to make available to the Federation the expertise of the FNM as well as its human resources to use their know-how for the management and preservation of the memory of national football. .
Note the National Football Museum, erected on a total area of nearly 2,100 m2, is also part of the efforts made by the FRMF for the preservation and enhancement of the memory of the national football, and reflects the importance given to cultural and sporting heritage of great historical and sporting value and its role in socio-economic development.
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