Walid Regragui is a Moroccan professional football manager, head coach of the Moroccan national team, and a former defender. He came into the limelight when the Moroccan team scripted history by becoming the first Arab and first African country to reach the semi-final stage by beating Portugal in the ongoing FIFA World Cup 2022.
Read here to know more about Walid Regragui, his age, family, wife, Instagram account, salary, and coaching career.
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Walid Regragui Age
Regragui was born on September 23, 1975. As of 2022, he is 47 years old. He is 1.78 (5 ft 10 in) tall.
Walid Regragui Wiki
Regragui was born on 23 September, 1975 in Corbell-Essonnes, France. He is a Moroccan with full international status. He started his youth career with Corbeil-Essonnes while the football clubs he represented are- Toulouse, AC Ajaccio, Grenoble, and Racing Santander. But he shifted from Grenoble to the Moroccan team Moghreb Tétouan where he played till his retirement.
Walid Regragui Family
Regragui leads a private life so despite being one of the top names in football, any information about his family, wife, and children isn’t disclosed yet. Also, he hasn’t shared any information about his parents and siblings as well.
Walid Regragui Wife
There is no information available about Regragui’s wife as his relationship status is out of the public eye. Considering his age, one can assume he has been married already. We’ll update you if any information on his wife is available.
Walid Regragui Instagram
Regragui is on Instagram as walid.regragui. He has over 1.4 million followers on the photo-sharing app.
Walid Regragui Salary
His primary source of revenue is his coaching contract. As of 2022, his net worth is estimated to be $5 million as per sources, while his salary is around 550,000 Euros. Also, he has inked a deal with the Morocco national team for three years (from August 31 2022 to June 30, 2025).
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Walid Regragui Coaching Career
After retiring, Regragui started football coaching, becoming Morocco’s national team’s assistant coach. However, his contract was terminated after the sacking of head coach Rachid Taoussi in October 2013.
Next year, he began as a head coach for the Fath Union Sport but left the club with mutual consent in 2020. He then became the head coach of Botola side Wydad AC in 2021 before leading the team to its 3rd CAF Championships League in 2022. In the final, Wydad AC defeated Al Ahly. Also, he became the second Moroccan manager to win the African Champions League (the first was Husseun Ammouta with the same team in 2017).
Regragui finally returned o the Moroccan side as the head coach for the national team after former head coach Vahid Halilhodžić was sacked.
He led the national team to the knockout stage and the quarter-finals for the first time in the ongoing FIFA World Cup 2022. This made Morocco the first African country to reach the stage of the tournament. To the shock of most, the team reached the semi-final when they beat Portugal by 1-0, which was another first for them, creating history not just as a country but as the first Arab and African country to do so.
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