Achraf Hakimi is arguably the most effective proper again on the planet and is coming off a tremendous 2024-25 season, serving to PSG win the UEFA Champions League, the primary in membership historical past, as a part of their treble.
Wednesday night time in Rabat introduced little uncertainty to the CAF Awards 2025. Hakimi entered because the clear frontrunner for African Participant of the 12 months and secured the honour after an excellent marketing campaign.
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He earned the award on the power of a season that delivered 5 trophies, together with PSG’s first Champions League title, whereas including 11 objectives and 16 assists.
Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah and Osimhen of Galatasaray have been additionally in competition, however the Paris proper again’s resume made the end result really feel inevitable.
May Achraf Hakimi Return to Actual Madrid?
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Amid Hakimi’s sturdy run of kind, the PSG standout’s agent has left the door open for the African Ballon d’Or winner to hitch Actual Madrid, his boyhood membership, sooner or later, and probably reuniting him together with his former teammate, Kylian Mbappe.
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“Achraf is totally targeted on his restoration after his harm and on getting again on the sector,” Hakimi’s agent (h/t ). “He’s joyful in Paris, the place he has a contract via 2029, however in soccer nothing is unimaginable, and Actual Madrid is his residence, the place he started within the youth groups.”
Will probably be fascinating to see whether or not Hakimi decides to play the remainder of his profession with PSG or enterprise elsewhere earlier than his prime years are over.