A penalty shootout victory for the North African nation, shocking the world with a dramatic win over previous World Cup winner, Spain.

The match winner scored by Achraf Hakimi, who actually grew up in Madrid, where his mother used to clean houses in the Spanish capital.

His goal sparked celebrations not only on the streets of Morocco, but across Africa, the Middle East, and Arabic neighborhoods around the world.

Tunisian, Egyptians⏤all the people who support Morocco⏤we're so happy, so proud.

- What a freaking beauty! - Morocco!

[Arabic]

Today, I'm very happy, and Arabic people are very happy also, because Morocco, today, win.

Up next for Morocco is a quarter-final match-up against Portugal, who are the favorites to advance.

Morocco is only the fourth African country to make it this far, and the first Arab one⏤none has ever made it to the semi-finals.

Tomorrow, that could all change.

There is a big pressure, you know, because everybody's supporting us, especially the Arab world and African teams, you know, African countries, too.

And this is⏤should be (an) advantage for our national team.

Morocco ends up representing an entire culture, an entire continent; not only in Africa, (but) in the Mi⏤in the Arab world as well.

We as African, (what) we are trying to accomplish is far beyond just football.

We are trying to tell the world that Africans have talents; we are very talented.

We can offer better teams, and we can achieve.

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