Because he has a generosity that very few others runners has.
Here in this video, training other runners (and he is doing that for decades).
He is behind:
Brahim Boutayed (10.000 Gold medal Olympic Games 1988)
Khalid Skah (10.000 Gold medal Olympic Games 1988; Double World Champion of Cross Country)
Salah Hissou (5000m World Champion, 10.000m WR)
Mohamed Moughit (a big name in Europe)
The greedy one turned turned against him because he has a weakness: naivety.
To add to this:
- He started under level zero of poverty (with a careless father)
- He self trained himself and adopted his own strategies.
- He trained only in Morocco (thus he will not give any credit to any western country).
Eh? He spent years at a French academy. France wanted him to represent them. Then he moved to Sienna and lived and trained there full time (aside from winters in Mexico and the USA).
and the allegations of promoting drug use while he coached in Australia ... ... ...