Morocco national football players headed to a medical center in Agadir city (250 kilometres/155 miles to the south of capital Rabat) on Saturday, to donate blood after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country in the late hours on Friday.
More than 2,100 have been confirmed dead so far, and of the 2,059 injured, more than 1,400 are said to be seriously hurt, the Morocco’s Interior Ministry said.
Head coach Walid Regragui’s Morocco qualifying game for the African Cup of Nations was postponed on Saturday in the wake of the earthquake.
Morocco had been scheduled to play Liberia in Agadir on the country’s western coast, but the Moroccan soccer federation said the game had been postponed indefinitely after an agreement with the Confederation of African Football.
Agadir is roughly 170 kilometers (105 miles) southwest of the epicenter of Friday’s tremor near the town of Ighil in Al Haouz Province.
Morocco have already qualified for the 24-team African tournament, which begins in January in Ivory Coast.
The team were also scheduled to play a friendly match in France against Burkina Faso on Tuesday.
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