Football: Hassan Akesbi, top scorer in the history of Nîmes, has died

After the death of an Algerian Football icon this week, a Moroccan ball legend has also passed away. Passed away this Saturday at the age of 89 following a long illness, Hassan Akesbi joined Rachid Mekhloufi in the paradise of stars of the football world. Born in Tangier in 1935, he leaves behind the memory of his tons of goals scored for Nîmes.

“Nîmes Olympique is in mourning,” the club wrote on its social networks. He will forever remain, and undoubtedly for a long time to come, the greatest scorer in the club's history. We send our most sincere condolences to his family and loved ones at home in Morocco. » Akesbi scored 114 goals for the Crocodiles during his career, including more than 200 matches played from 1955 to 1961.

He not only illuminated Gard. The Moroccan also wore the colors of the great Stade de Reims between 1961 and 1965, with whom he won the D1 title in 1962, despite an interlude in Monaco in this interval. His entire career in the French Championship has allowed him to amass a whopping 173 goals in the elite. Enough to take him to the rank of top African scorer in the history of the first division. He shone with his consistency, with six consecutive seasons scoring at least fifteen goals in D1.