First of all, we need to put things in context. When Boussati scored 25 goals, during the 1981-82 season, Botola had 20 teams, and therefore 38 matches to play. In absolute terms, no one has ever done better than Boussati, neither before nor after.
But as a ratio, other attackers have done at least as well as him, over 30-game seasons, or even half-seasons. Which does not detract from the performance of the KAC striker, three times crowned national goleador.
Let us now leave Boussati aside and focus on the current Botola. Who can tell us who the top scorer is? The best passer?
You have to search a lot, and be patient, to find traces of an updated ranking of the best goleadores of Botola. As for the best passers, don’t even try to look, it’s a lost cause: Moroccan football has never paid much attention to passers…
At the top of the scorers, and at the end of the 17th day of the championship, the number one is called Cheikhna Samake (OCS), with 7 small goals. The total is meager. In the best case scenario, and if he respects his passing times and his current ratio, the Malian striker should end the season around 12 goals, no more.
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As for the Moroccan top scorer, he comes behind Samaké and he also belongs to a club with average ambitions (HUSA). His name is Bakhkhach and he has 6 goals.
It is therefore not at the end of the current season that Boussati’s record, almost half a century old, risks falling. We will have to wait…
Does the problem come from the attackers from Botola? Not necessarily. It is enough to see that Soufiane Rahimi and Ayoub El Kaâbi, who are today among the great “international” scorers, are pure products of Botola. And we’re not even talking about Hamdallah, who is still active and has scored more goals than any other Moroccan player.
These three boys could also have beaten Boussati’s record. But Rahimi, when he played for Raja, was never considered as a full-fledged striker and played more as a supporting striker, sometimes as a false winger. For its part, El Kaâbi has never had the slightest continuity, between Berkane and Wydad, multiplying loans in high season.
As for Hamdallah, his last season at OCS (2012-2013) was the most prolific, but he left Botola in the winter transfer window, when he had scored around fifteen goals. The irony of the story is that Safiot was crowned top scorer of the season, even though he had only played the first legs. Go figure!
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The problem is there. When an attacker makes a good start to the season and scores goals, his club lends him or sells him permanently from the winter transfer window. The call for profit takes precedence (very often) over sporting objectives.
Once we saw the first three or four in the scorers’ ranking “deserting” Botola in the middle of the season. The return phase was played without or almost no scorers…
Our friend Boussati can therefore sleep peacefully. His record is set to last again and again.
