The Spanish-Moroccan right winger surprised by starting as a starter in the derby between FC Barcelona and RCD Espanyol, being Xavi Hernández’s first bet on the Barça bench at 17 years old.
We see some curiosities about Ilias Akhomach Chakkour:
Before making his debut with the first team, he played eight games with FC Barcelona B. When he made his debut with the subsidiary, he was just over 16 and a half years old. It was enough for the Egarense coach to see him meet after arriving from Qatar to decide to summon him and have him start in the derby.
The penultimate contest of the Hispano-Moroccan was on the fourth day of the Youth League. In the visit to Dynamo Kyiv, he received two yellow cards between the 26th and 40th minutes for two fouls, leaving the team with 10 shortly after drawing and being a key moment in the defeat (4-1). With this result, the youth players are five points behind second place with six at stake.
A few days later, in a domestic competition match, he vindicated himself by signing two goals against Sevilla Atlético, between minutes 6 and 20, to overtake his team in the win (4-0) against Sevilla.
The eleventh and penultimate month of the year seems to be that of Ilias, who already made his debut with the second team on November 7, 2020 against Andorra, on that occasion with a defeat (1-0). On this occasion, on November 20, 2021, he has repeated the result but with a victory against RCD Espanyol.
Having Moroccan and Spanish nationality, he will still have time to decide which he wants to be the absolute team to defend, but for the moment he has played in the U16 and U18 of Spain, so he seems to be heading towards defending those colors. He has shared a call with Pablo Páez “Gavi”, another promise already habitual in the first Barça team.
The culés fans have seen him play generally on the right side in the lower categories, something that was repeated in his debut in LaLiga. However, with the national team he has also been seen acting on the left side to give the right to Fabio Blanco of Eintracht Frankfurt.
He was born in Els Hostalets de Pierola, a municipality in the province of Barcelona, about 50km by car from the center of Barcelona. According to the National Institute of Statistics of Spain, in 2017 it had 2,901 inhabitants.
He arrived in the world on April 16, 2004. That same day, but in another year, the coaches Rafael Benítez (1960) and Germán “el Mono” Burgos (1969), the former soccer player Fredrik Ljungberg (1977), the former players were born. of the NBA Luol Deng (1982) and Boris Diaw (1982) or the players Andreas Granqvist (1985), Shinji Okazaki (1986), Aaron Lennon (1987), Daniel Parejo (1989) and Rami Bensebaini (1995), among others.
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