Marquinhos left on the bench (until the end of the game), Achraf Hakimi was the captain of PSG during the first Champions League meeting of the season against Slovan Bratislava, Tuesday evening at the Parc des Princes, for a large 6-1 success thanks to a double from Ousmane Dembélé and a hat-trick from Ferran Torres. The Moroccan right-back, ever more exceptional under the orders of Luis Enrique who makes him play several positions at the same time, played his 58th C1 match with the Rouge et Bleu, where he arrived in 2021.
At only 27 years old, Hakimi is set to break numerous records. The star captain of the Atlas Lions already has 102 international matches, for a coronation at the last African Cup of Nations (pending the decision of the CAS next month), and will quickly become the record holder for selections in Morocco ahead of Noureddine Naybet (115 matches).
Hakimi on the podium behind Salah and Drogba
In the Champions League, Achraf Hakimi is now on the podium of the most capped African players in the European competition, equaling Samuel Eto’o with 78 matches. Mohamed Salah is the record holder with 98 matches and Didier Drogba is his runner-up with 92 matches. Double winner of the Champions League, Hakimi is only 20 European evenings behind the Egyptian Pharaoh, who took Liverpool to three C1 finals (for a coronation in 2019).
The Madrid native first played two UCL matches with his training club, Real, in 2017-2018, before playing 13 with Borussia Dortmund (for 4 goals scored) and 5 with Inter. Kylian Mbappé’s great friend also waited for his third season at PSG to open his goal counter with the capital’s team. It was against his former club Dortmund in September 2023.
