Forget A Generation, Morocco Is Simply Golden (opens in new tab)

It's almost time for the World Cup. Before the tournament, we'll be previewing each of the top 15 teams by FIFA rankings that made the tournament. Why the top 15? Because that's how many we needed to do in order for the USMNT to make the cut. You can read all of our previews here. From a distance, it might be tempting to fit Morocco's recent rocket-ship rise up the global soccer hierarchy into the familiar story of the golden generation. To be fair, when a smaller and/or relatively unheralded...