World Cup 2026: Morocco stands alone as Egypt’s exit ends Africa’s record-breaking run 

Morocco present stands unsocial arsenic the lone squad from Africa successful the 2026 FIFA World Cup quarter-final stage.

This follows Egypt’s achy exit astatine the hands of Argentina successful the Round of 16 on Tuesday.

DAILY POST reports that Egypt threw distant a 2-0 pb to suffer 3-2 against Argentina successful the Round of 16 fixture played astatine Atlanta Stadium.

The Pharaohs took the pb via Yasser Ibrahim successful the 15th infinitesimal of the encounter, earlier Mostafa Zico doubled the pb for the North Africans successful the second.

But 3 precocious goals from Lionel Messi, Cristian Romero, and Enzo Fernandez, gave Lionel Scaloni’s broadside the triumph against Egypt arsenic they qualified for the quarter-final.

The result of the lucifer means Egypt exits the World Cup, arsenic Morocco is present officially the lone African squad near successful the competition.

DAILY POST reports that 10 African teams – Tunisia, DR Congo, South Africa, Ghana, Cape Verde, Senegal, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Egypt and Morocco – represented the continent astatine this year’s variation of the World Cup.

It was a historical continental milestone accomplishment for Afric...