{"id":926,"date":"2010-03-01T10:05:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T10:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/?p=926"},"modified":"2020-10-26T14:10:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T14:10:27","slug":"urban-freestyle-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2010\/03\/01\/urban-freestyle-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Freestyle Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Just as they said they would be, Tarik and the lads from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufm.on.ma\/\">UFM<\/a> were there to meet us at Rabat train station. They had a plan for The Ball. The parliament building, the medina, the beach: all with The Ball and all freestyle. And so it was.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned_image alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px\"><span id=\"attachment_935\"  class=\"wp-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_freestylers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-935 size-full\" title=\"UFM freestyle Rabat\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_freestylers.jpg\" alt=\"UFM freestyle Rabat\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_freestylers.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_freestylers-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_freestylers-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_freestylers-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_freestylers-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_freestylers-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><small class=\"wp-caption-text\">UFM freestyle Rabat<\/small><\/div>\n<p>The freestylers rapped about The Ball in Moroccan Arabic, they juggled The Ball and they took us to the beach where we met many young Moroccans who gave us our first taste of beach football.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned_image alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px\"><span id=\"attachment_931\"  class=\"wp-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_ball_spin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-931 size-full\" title=\"You spin me right round baby\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_ball_spin.jpg\" alt=\"You spin me right round baby\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_ball_spin.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_ball_spin-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_ball_spin-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_ball_spin-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_ball_spin-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_ball_spin-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><small class=\"wp-caption-text\">You spin me right round baby right round<\/small><\/div>\n<div class=\"captioned_image alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px\"><span id=\"attachment_930\"  class=\"wp-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_ball_on_head.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-930 size-full\" title=\"The Ball gets ahead\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_ball_on_head.jpg\" alt=\"The Ball gets ahead\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_ball_on_head.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_ball_on_head-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_ball_on_head-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_ball_on_head-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_ball_on_head-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_ball_on_head-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><small class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ball gets ahead on the way to the beach<\/small><\/div>\n<div class=\"captioned_image alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px\"><span id=\"attachment_932\"  class=\"wp-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_beach_football.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-932 size-full\" title=\"Beach football pitch in Rabat\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_beach_football.jpg\" alt=\"Beach football pitch in Rabat\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_beach_football.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_beach_football-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_beach_football-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_beach_football-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_beach_football-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_beach_football-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><small class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beach football pitch in Rabat<\/small><\/div>\n<div class=\"captioned_image alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px\"><span id=\"attachment_934\"  class=\"wp-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_beach_team.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-934 size-full\" title=\"Andrew and the beach football team\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_beach_team.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew and the beach football team\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_beach_team.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_beach_team-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_beach_team-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_beach_team-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_beach_team-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_beach_team-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><small class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew and the beach football team<\/small><\/div>\n<div class=\"captioned_image alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px\"><span id=\"attachment_928\"  class=\"wp-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_rabat_ufm_team.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-928 size-full\" title=\"UFM and The Ball\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_rabat_ufm_team.jpg\" alt=\"UFM and The Ball\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_rabat_ufm_team.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_rabat_ufm_team-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_rabat_ufm_team-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_rabat_ufm_team-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_rabat_ufm_team-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/02\/mor_rabat_ufm_team-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><small class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UFM team and The Ball<\/small><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as they said they would be, Tarik and the lads from UFM were there to meet us at Rabat train station. They had a plan for The Ball. The parliament building, the medina, the beach: all with The Ball and all freestyle. And so it was. The freestylers rapped about The Ball in Moroccan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,18,232],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-morocco-countries","category-the-ball","category-the-journey","tag-freestyle-football"],"geo":{"latitude":34.02919010000000099580574897117912769317626953125,"longitude":-6.841220899999999716101228841580450534820556640625,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/mor_rabat_freestylers.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3422,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions\/3422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}