Zouhair Snisla

Reason: "I joined a school for blind people to carry on my studies, where I discovered blind football and followed it step by step. I liked it when I'd seen people playing it, and I was a fan of football before. I played for the school team for about five years and one of the schoolteachers had a contact with the Moroccan national team, and they scouted me." (paralympic.org, 15 Mar 2024) Ambition: To win gold at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. (paralympic.org, 15 Mar 2024) Milestones: He was part of the team that won Morocco's first Paralympic medal [bronze] in Para football-5-a-side at the 2020 Games in Tokyo. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 Jul 2024) At age 17 he was the youngest athlete to represent Morocco in any sport at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (SportsDeskOnline, 30 May 2024)