Photos: The best moments of Morocco’s historic World Cup campaign

From players tossing their coach into the air and dancing with their mothers on the pitch, to waving the Palestinian flag while celebrating historic victories to the deafening crash of Viking thunder, Morocco lit up the soccer World Cup in Qatar like no other team.

After beating higher-ranked opponents such as Belgium, Spain and Portugal, the Atlas Lions reached the quarterfinals of the most important tournament in international football – the first African and Arab team to do so.

Here, Al Jazeera have compiled some of the most shocking moments from Morocco’s fairytale run on and off the pitch.