Sofiane Boufal, “an elusive player”

From Angers to the Belgian club Union Saint-Gilloise via Lille and the Premier League, Moroccan international Sofiane Boufal (30 years old, 46 caps) will have shown the full extent of his talent.

“He was frail, but he did things with the ball that no one else could do,” recalls Stéphane Moulin, reserve coach at SCO d’Angers, to The Last Hour after Boufal went back up to Ligue 1. I insisted that the club keep him, because I saw so many qualities in this boy that his size was not going to be a problem. He was a little phenomenon with an exceptional individual technical mastery allowing him to do what he wanted with the ball. A magician who had the talent to go to the biggest clubs in the world. “On September 3, the Paris native joined Union Saint Gilloise for a period of two seasons.