Hakim’s adolescence was tough, between bad turns and constant complaints: fires, drugs, alcohol, threats. Then his friend Aziz took off his hood …
In the end, the others saved him, forced him to say enough, because when you show up five times in a year in front of a judge it means that you are going out of bounds, over the tracks, and that perhaps you cannot save yourself from alone. At 16, Hakim Ziyech was living a double life, walking on two different paths: the first in football, the irreverent talent of Heerenveen, the ‘wizard’ of the neighborhood who grew up with kicks in the ass and strong grooming.
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