The day after the award ceremony for the best African player for the 2023-2024 season, intriguing speculations involving Achraf Hakimi and CAF are widely relayed on the web.
Indeed, according to information reported by certain local Moroccan sources including Al Mountakhab, before the holding of the CAF Awards 2024, the PSG player would have been contacted by the governing body of football.
The latter would then have made the Moroccan defender believe that all the planets were aligned for him to be crowned African Ballon d’Or.
«Hakimi was invited to attend the CAF ceremony due to a high percentage chance of coronation.
The news we received confirmed that there was a call to Achraf Hakimi to tell him that there was good news and that he should come to Marrakech, and Hakimi actually reunited with his mother, his brother and the president of the Paris Saint-Germain club (…)
Lookman said he himself did not believe he was the owner of the Ballon d’Or after Achraf Hakimi’s name was chanted.
Achraf Hakimi left the concert hall in shock, holding his mother by the hand as if telling her (…) Here ended the story of the theft and kidnapping of Achraf’s Ballon d’Or Hakimi», Reported the Moroccan source in the comments relayed by Foot Mercato.
Information widely shared on the web, particularly on X, which provokes a wave of reactions from Internet users.
Faced with the annoyance of the fans, neither CAF nor Achraf Hakimi have yet made any statement to confirm or not the rumors.
Enough to further fuel the campaigns of any injustice of which the Moroccan player would have been a victim.
