A Swansea couple are gearing up for a nail-biting World Cup semi-final - with one of the pair set to support his native Morocco whilst the other supports her native France. Karim and Julie Hadji have been life-long football fans but "never expected" to see their home nations play against each other - not least on a World Cup semi-final stage.
The couple met online 14 years ago and have been together ever since. They moved to Swansea together in 2011 and now live in the Morriston area of the city with their young daughter, with Julie working as teacher and Karim working in a care home.
Karim, originally from Fes in northeast Morocco, said: "It's tense! We're both football fans and both want our teams to win. We've been joking about it, we're so excited for it. I never thought we [Morocco] would get to the semi-final of a World Cup - and I never thought we'd be playing France! It's the first time for a country in Africa to be in the semi-final and the first time for an Arab nation as well."
