The club World Cup seems to have allowed some to open their eyes. No, the 2025 gold ball race may not be limited to a duel between Ousmane Dembélé and Lamine Yamal. Other candidates also deserve to be quoted in the discussion, and PSG has several such as Vitinha and Nuno Mendes, who completed their list by winning the League of Nations with Portugal.
Who else? Scorer against Seattle Sounders on Monday evening, Achraf Hakimi is also one of the players who apply for the trophy France Football. The Moroccan international (26) has been 10 goals and 12 assists since the start of the season, which makes him the most decisive defender. He notably marked in the final of the French Cup and the Champions League. A CV which deserves, therefore, to be considered.
In any case, this is the opinion of Jean-Michel Larqué. “Foreign journalists do not see what we see regularly. How can we miss a player who reinvented the post of side ?, wonders the consultant in the program Rothen igniteson RMC waves. He is not the only one because I think that Paris Saint-Germain today has the best pair of lateral back in the world, from far away. »»
Golden Ball, Larqué votes Hakimi
“What I saw from Hakimi and Nuno Mendes with PSG and their national teams, it taped me!”continues the former commentator. I think that, from time to time, it would be good to go out of the beaten track and that journalists put in the list of the first ten from time to time a goalkeeper, from time to time a defender. And that it does not focus only on a playmaker and a goalscorer. »»
For him, “If there is someone who deserves to be rewarded”it's Achraf Hakimi. “It would be good for football, he said. It would be good for those who think that football is only to have number 9, number 7 or number 10 in the back. It would be good for these people to know that there is an Achraf Hakimi who changes a team when he plays or that there is a nuno Mendes who changes a team when he plays. »»
