While waiting for the repairs of their own stadium to be completed, Mouloudia Oujda continues to ruin the good grass of Ahfir’s stadium — and continues to win on it.

I’m just an ordinary football spectator; I understand very little about the sport.
One of the things I’ve never understood is the many voices calling to forbid any association or neighborhood team from Ahfir from playing on the stadium, supposedly to protect its grass.

We now know that the pitch is used by:
– Ahfir’s team,
– Berkane’s team,
– the big Mouloudia,
– the junior Mouloudia.

These teams use the stadium not only for weekly matches, but also daily for training.
Plus the training sessions of visiting teams, like this week with MAS Fès and Widad Fès.

So I ask:
How can we deprive Ahfir’s youth of their own stadium, while allowing Oujda, Berkane, and their guests to train on it every day?

You may say Ahfir benefits financially from hosting Oujda and Berkane.
But so far, Ahfir’s share from the Mouloudia hasn’t even reached 4,000 dirhams, while the losses exceed millions.

Officials say they can’t do anything against the pressure of the wali of Oujda and the governor of Berkane.
Yet neither the wali nor the governor lifted a finger when the region gave 50 million to Berkane, double that to the Mouloudia, and zero dirhams to Ahfir.
Worse still, the wali used all his authority to gather half a billion for the Mouloudia.

And despite all this, we must recite Al‑Fatiha every Sunday and pray for the victory of Berkane and Oujda, because any defeat of either team in Ahfir puts our cars, our shops, and our heads at risk.

By Amr Jalloul – 2011