American player becomes laughing stock in Morocco

Kevin Paredes, a player on the American Olympic team, told the press on Friday, before the match against the Atlas Lions (4-0), that he had never heard of this team. A joke in bad taste that aroused the anger of Moroccan fans who did not fail to respond to him after his team’s stinging defeat.

“To be honest, I have never heard of this team before and I don’t know anything about them, but the important thing is that we will win tomorrow,” Paredes said before Friday’s match, which the Atlas Lions won by a resounding 4-0 score.