Morocco-Spain: Achraf Hakimi, star of Atlas Lions Made in Spain

Born and trained in Madrid, the flagship player of the Moroccan selection maintains a privileged relationship with Spain, which he faces in the round of 16 of the World Cup on Tuesday. Walid Kachour

It’s been twelve years since the Roja has not tasted the joys of a quarter -final of a World Cup. It was in 2010, the year of his only coronation. But Tuesday, December 6, in the round of 16 of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, there will be, whatever the result of the match against Morocco, from Spain in the top world, in the person of Achraf Hakimi. Born in Madrid twenty-four years ago, the lateral of the Atlas Lions will celebrate against Luis Enrique players his 58 e selection under the Moroccan tunic.

In addition to his role as leader in Moroccan defense, Achraf Hakimi will be the union of a new symbolic duel on Tuesday at the Al-Rayyan Education Stade. After the fratricidal match won against Belgium in groups (0-2) on November 27, this time posted it, between two border countries, has everything of a “derby”. “This match is special because I play against the country which made me grow and which gave us, to me and my family, a lot” said Hakimi in the columns of Marca November 5.

The Paris Saint-Germain player grew up in Getafe, south of the Spanish capital. His parents, from Casablanca and a village near Tangier, put their suitcases there in 1989, in search of a better life. Her mother Fatima, a cleaning lady, helped her husband Hassan at her stall on the Majadahonda market, near Madrid.

“My parents fought to offer us the best, to my brother, my sister and I. They did not study and worked a lot to buy us clothes, school supplies, and take us to the training which was far away. All this made me more independent, stronger “recalled the player in an interview with L’Equipe magazine in November 2021.

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Child, the young Achraf scums the land located near the family home in the Las Margaritas district, using walls painted as cages. “It is a poor, worker, where many Moroccans live,” said Dani Gomez, sports journalist for Hora Azulona, ​​who rubbed shoulders with the footballer in Santa Margarita primary school.

Launched in the deep bath at 18 years old at Real

Achraf Hakimi took its first license in 2005 at the CD Colonia Ofigevi, a club of the Madrid suburbs. His speed qualities hit the eye of Real Madrid recruiters quickly, where he signed among young people in 2006, at only seven years old. “It was the youngster, the little one, but he was very fast, and that’s why Real Madrid recruited him,” recalls Gomez.

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