Anis Hadj Moussa seduced two Dutch football legends. A true revelation of the first part of the 2024-2024 season, the Algerian winger from Feyenoord Rotterdam no longer leaves anyone indifferent.
With his liveliness, his confusing dribbling and his sense of goal, he was immediately compared to Riyad Mahrez, his captain in the Algeria team. Anis Hadj Moussa looks a lot like the former Leicester and Manchester City star, with whom he won numerous titles, including a Champions League with the Cityzens in 2023.
Perhaps even the new crack of Algerian football from Feyenoord, who played in the third division, has something exceptional, to the point of arousing the admiration of two legends of Dutch and world football.
The first to praise the Franco-Algerian was Marco Van Basten, triple Ballon d’Or (1988, 1989, 1992). He was followed, shortly after, by another monster of Dutch football, Ruud Gullit, also Ballon d’or (1987). It’s not nothing and it’s not every day that these two former AC Milan stars praise players.
Marco Van Basten expressed his “immense pleasure in following the exploits” of the Algerian winger whom he finds “incredible” while Ruud Gullit finds him “impressive”. “He remains lucid and creative when he advances with the ball. He is an unpredictable player, capable of surprising his opponents at any time. »
This praise is intended for a player who has enjoyed a meteoric rise in the world of football. Anis Hadj Moussa played a little over a year ago for Patro Eisden Maasmechelen (Belgian division 2) where he signed his first professional contract in June 2023. Loaned to Vitesse Arnhem in February 2024, he landed at Feyenoord Rotterdam for two months After.
Anis Hadj Moussa praised by Van Basten and Gullit
Since then, the right winger trained at RC Lens in France has continued to impress. On December 11, he displayed the extent of his talent in the Champions League against a European ogre, Manchester City.
While his team was trailing 3-0 with a quarter of an hour to go, Hadj Moussa appeared to reduce the score and start the revolt of his own who achieved an incredible “comeback” against Guardiola’s team (3-3). A week later, he released another XXL performance against Sparta Prague, still in the Champions League.
A performance which revealed the enormous potential of this Paris native of Algerian parents and which opened the doors to an exceptional career for him, since many major European clubs now covet him.
On the transfer market, his value has exploded. If the Transfermarkt site values it at 12 million euros, but according to the Dutch press, Feyenoord has set the bar high and does not intend to sell its young prodigy for less than 40 million euros.
In the Algerian team where he was called up for the first time on March 15 by coach Vladimir Petkovic, Anis Hadj Moussa has three selections.
The right winger, who is biding his time, is part of the new green wave to replace players like Riyad Mahrez or Youcef Belaili. The first is aging while the second has not been recalled to the national team since the debacle of CAN 2023 in January 2024 in Ivory Coast.
