Zakaria Bakkali

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Zakaria Bakkali
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Bakkali playing for PSV in 2013
Personal information
Full name Zakaria Bakkali
Date of birth (1996-01-26) 26 January 1996 (age 28)
Place of birth Liège, Belgium
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Position(s) Winger
Team information
Current team
 Valencia
Number 16
Youth career
2003–2005 RFC Liège
2005–2008 Standard Liège
2008–2013 PSV
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2015 PSV 16 (3)
2014–2015 Jong PSV 6 (1)
2015– Valencia 16 (1)
International career‡
2011 Belgium U15 6 (6)
2011–2012 Belgium U16 4 (4)
2012–2013 Belgium U17 12 (7)
2013– Belgium U21 6 (1)
2013– Belgium 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 31 January 2016
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20:50, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Zakaria Bakkali (born 26 January 1996) is a Belgian professional footballer of Moroccan descent who plays for Spanish club Valencia CF and the Belgium national football team as a winger.

Bakkali's parents are immigrants from Morocco.[2]

He is most famous for becoming the youngest Eredivisie player of all-time to score a hat-trick, at the age of 17 years and 196 days.

Club career

PSV

After starting his footballing career at the youth academies of RFC Liège and later Standard Liège, Bakkali transferred to PSV Eindhoven of the Netherlands at the age of 12.[3]

On 30 July 2013, Bakkali made his debut for PSV against Zulte Waregem in a UEFA Champions League qualifying match.[4] He made his Eredivisie debut against ADO Den Haag in the opening game of the season on 3 August.[5]

On 7 August, he scored his first senior goal in the second-leg of the Champions League tie against Zulte Waregem in a 3–0 win.[6] On 10 August, he scored a hat-trick in PSV's 5–0 defeat of NEC Nijmegen at the Philips Stadion, becoming the youngest player to score a hat-trick in Eredivisie history.[7]

In the middle of 2014, Bakkali was set for a move to Atlético Madrid for a fee of around €2-3 million, but the move fell through. After the move failed, interest from the Premier League began to rise throughout the 2014–15 season. After rejecting a new contract from PSV, Bakkali was banished from the first-team, with PSV agreeing to sell him in the winter transfer window.[8] Scottish club Celtic offered £750,000 on transfer deadline day for Bakkali,[9] but a PSV spokesman stated that "this deadline day no deal will be closed by PSV with any team for this particular player".[10]

Valencia

On 6 July 2015 Bakkali moved to Valencia CF in La Liga, after agreeing to a five-year deal.[11] He made his unofficial debut against Werder Bremen at the 2015 Audi quattro Cup final on 11 July 2015.[12]

International career

After his breakthrough into the PSV first team, Belgium senior coach Marc Wilmots selected him in the 25-man squad for the friendly match against France.[13] Due to a training injury sustained the day before the game, he was pulled out of the squad. With his dual nationality and without full international appearances, he still had the choice to play for the Morocco national football team, but on 7 October 2013 (shortly before Belgium's last two 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers) he formally opted for the Red Devils.[14] He was recalled to the Belgium squad in October 2015 for Euro 2016 qualifiers against Andorra and Israel.[15]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 17 January 2016[16]
Club Season Division League Cup Europe Other Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
PSV 2013–14 Eredivisie 16 3 2 0 4 1 0 0 22 4
2014–15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 16 3 2 0 4 1 0 0 22 4
Jong PSV 2013–14 Eerste Divisie 1 0 — 1 0
2014–15 5 1 — 5 1
Total 6 1 — 6 1
Valencia 2015–16 La Liga 14 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 16 1
Total 14 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 16 1
Career total 36 5 4 0 4 1 0 0 44 6

International

Belgium
Year Apps Goals
2013 1 0
2014 0 0
Total 1 0

References

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