PSG and Morocco team: Achraf Hakimi, the rise of a leader

Slowly but gradually, the Moroccan right-back of PSG Achraf Hakimi25 years old, he is a true leader in his club but also with the Atlas Lions.

Over the years, Achraf Hakimi has become a key player for PSG and the Moroccan team. He is important for the Parisian club but also for the Atlas Lions. The third oldest player in the Parisian club’s squad behind Marquinhos and Presnel Kimpembe likes to take on responsibilities. At a time when PSG is “in the midst of reconstruction, actively looking for new leaders and emerging voices, the former Real Madrid player is now establishing himself as one of the influential executives of this new, younger and less experienced locker room,” notes Le Parisien. The French newspaper is convinced that the man who took on the role of captain on the first day at Le Havre (1-4) and is in his fourth season “should be among the vice-captains following the vote organized in the coming days to designate the wearer of the armband that he had already inherited at times last season.”