Two Moroccan players from football club, Ittihad Tanger have been missing at sea since Saturday after strong currents drifted their small yacht, a club official said on Sunday.
According to the club deputy president, Anass Mrabet said the players were part of a group of five from the club who went cruising off the northern city of Tangier.
Strong currents and heavy winds carried their yacht away as they were swimming in deep waters, “Three players were rescued on Saturday, but the search is still ongoing for the missing players, Salman Harraq and Abdellatif Akhrif,”.
The players did not have buoys on them when they jumped from the yacht to swim, based on accounts from the rescued players. Akhrif, 24, is a full member of the squad, while Harraq, 18, was about to move up to the senior team this year, Mrabet added.
Ittihad Tanger has been in the Moroccan top flight since 2015 and won the league title for the first and only time in the 2017-18 season. However, the team has struggled in the bottom half of the standings in recent years.
