Herve Renard is the last man to win the Africa Cup of Nations with Ivory Coast two years ago in Equatorial Guinea, and one of the few to have won it atleast twice.
Now handling the Atlas Lions of Morocco, the Frenchman will be hoping to make it three with the 1976 winners who have not impressed since then.
The 2012 AFCON winner with Zambia on Sunday named a 27-man squad that will camp in United Arab Emirates ahead of the tournament that kicks off on January 14, 2017 in Gabon.
While in UAE, Morocco who are in Group C alongside Ivory Coast and Togo will train at a closed camp but will play two friendlies against Iran and Finland as part of their preparations for the tournament.
Morocco Squad
Goalkeepers: Yassine Bounou (Girona, Spain), Yassine El-Kharroubi (Lokomotiv Plovdiv, Bulgaria), Munir Mohamedi (Numancia, Spain).
Defenders: Amine Attouchi (Wydad Casablanca), Mehdi Benatia (Juventus, Italy), Fouad Chafik (Dijon, France), Manuel da Costa (Olympiakos, Greece), Nabil Dirar (Monaco, France), Hamza Mendyl (Lille, France), Mohamed Nahiri (FUS Rabat), Romain Saïss (Wolverhampton Wanderers, England).
Midfielders: Youssef Aït Bennasser (Nancy, France), Nordin Amrabat (Watford, England), Younes Belhanda (Nice, France), Sofiane Boufal (Southampton, England), Mbark Boussoufa (Al-Jazeera, United Arab Emirates), Mehdi Carcela (Grenada, Spain), Karim El-Ahmadi (Feyenoord Rotterdam, Netherlands), Fayçal Fajr (Deportivo Coruña, Spain), Ismail Haddad (Wydad Casablanca), Mourir Obbadi (Lille, France), Oussama Tannane (St Etienne, France).
Forwards: Rachid Alioui (Nimes, France), Khalid Boutaib (Racing Strasbourg, France), Youssef El-Arabi (Al-Lekhwiya, Qatar), Youssef Ennesyri (Malaga, Spain).
