The candidacy of Morocco was selected for the organization of this competition, scheduled from 22 to 31 July 2023, during the general assembly of the ISF, held last May 16 and 17 in Normandy (France) on the sidelines of the 19th Gymnasiade of school sports. Morocco will be, thus, the first African country to host this sporting event.
Speaking at the signing ceremony, Chakib Benmoussa, Minister of National Education, Preschool and Sports, President of the FRMSS, said that this event will be another opportunity to consecrate the leadership of Morocco as a central player in the promotion of school sports and stakeholder in the efforts to develop the world sport.
It is also the culmination of a participatory and fruitful process between the Ministry and its partners, aimed at making schools a real nursery of sports champions, said Benmoussa.
The signing of this contract of organization comes in a context marked by the dynamics that knows the national sport and illustrated by the results obtained by Moroccan students in various international competitions, including the victory of the women's school selection in the African championship of soccer U16, noted the minister.
He noted that Morocco has acquired a notorious experience in organizing international sporting events, adding that this positive accumulation will be used to organize the World School Football Championship in the best conditions.
For his part, Fouazi Lekjaa, president of the FRMF said that the school is the real nursery for the development of sport, adding that the detection of a talent is done at the age of 10 years, when the child naturally follows its school course.
Thus, the school is now at the center of the development of all sports, hence the need to combine schooling and sport, said Lekjaa, highlighting the experience sport-studies started in Morocco a few years ago and has begun to bear fruit, including for women's soccer with the qualification of the selection of U17 for the World Cup scheduled in India.
For his part, the president of ISF, Laurent Petrynka said that the fact of organizing the World Schools Championship in Morocco is a great opportunity, because the Kingdom's application was excellent in every respect and "the confidence we have in the Royal Moroccan Federation of School Sports was an important point."
"Morocco meets all the conditions to host an international competition because, first of all, it is a country of history and culture and this is important because the main thing is "to share values and not only to do sports," stressed Petrynka in a statement to the press, adding that the Kingdom is a great country of education and sport, since it hosts major international competitions and has great ambitions for school sports.