
Yasser Al-Zabiri's remarkable brilliance against Barcelona and strong competition for the top scorer in the Spanish League
Young Moroccan striker Yasser Zabri scored a goal for his team Racing Santander against Barcelona, enhancing his brilliance this season and competing for the top scorer in the Spanish League after strong performances.
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Yasser Al-Zabiri starred with the Moroccan youth team that won the World Youth Cup in Chile in 2025.
(CNN) - On the night of Barcelona’s 7-2 victory over Racing Santander in the sixth round of the Spanish League, there was one positive point for the guests who suffered a severe defeat, and this positive was represented by a young Moroccan striker, Yasser Zabri.
Date night
Al-Zabiri entered the field in the 59th minute instead of Juan Arana, and the result at that time indicated a four-to-one lead for the Catalan team.
Six minutes after arriving, he succeeded in putting strong pressure on Polish goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny to steal the ball and score his team's second goal in the match and his first in the historic Camp Nou stadium.
Although the goal of the 21-year-old Moroccan striker did not succeed in reviving the visitors' hopes of returning to the match until two minutes later, when Rafinha scored Barcelona's fifth goal from a penalty kick, the striker's continued scoring was good news for the white and green team and the Moroccan fans alike.
Yasser almost scored his team's third goal in the match in stoppage time, but Barcelona goalkeeper and defender Eric Garcia prevented him from doing so.
Fighting adults
Al-Zabiri scored 6 goals in his first 5 league matches this season with Racing, declaring himself a fierce contender for the league's top scorer clash with Rafinha, Kylian Mbappe and Lamine Yamal.
What makes the number of goals by Al-Zabiri amazing is the number of minutes he played compared to his competitors, as he participated in 311 minutes, compared to 478 minutes for Rafinha, 491 minutes for Yamal, and 540 minutes for Mbappe.
Dream holder
Yasser's brilliance did not begin with the current season, but rather began when he participated in the historical epic of the Moroccan youth national team when the "Atlas Lions" won the World Youth Cup title in Chile in 2025 for the first time in their history.
Al-Zabiri scored 5 goals in that tournament, becoming one of the four top scorers in that historic World Cup.
The Moroccan fans are counting on Al-Zabiri to lead the “Atlas Lions” attack in the upcoming events, especially the 2030 World Cup, after the end of a legendary generation of strikers such as Youssef En-Nesyri and Ayoub El-Kaabi.
It is expected that the coach of the Moroccan national team, Mohamed Wehbe, will summon Yasser to the roster of the Moroccan national team that will compete in the African Cup of Nations qualifiers in the next international break, so that the meeting between the two men who achieved the World Cup together will be renewed.
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Yasser Al-Zabiri was called up to the Moroccan national team during the upcoming international break
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