Moroccan club Ittihad Tanger are still searching for two footballers who went missing off the country’s northern Mediterranean coast on Saturday.
Five staff members from the top-flight side were taking part in an excursion on a yacht rented from the beach resort of M’diq – north of the city of Tetouan.
Emergency services rescued three people after the incident, but senior players Abdellatif Akhrif, 24, and Salman El-Harrak, 18, are missing.
Oussama Aflah, Soumaimane Dahdouh and Abdelhamid Maali, a Morocco Under-20 international, were rescued after being out at sea for several hours.
Aflah is a club employee, while Dahdouh and Maali are considered promising young players with the reserve team.
Ittihad Tanger president Mohamed Cherkaoui confirmed the “search for the missing players is still ongoing”.
Ittihad Tanger have been in Morocco’s top flight since 2015 and won the league title for the first and only time in their history in the 2017-18 season.
Moroccan Club Continues Search For Footballers Who Went Missing At Sea
