French international Kheira Hamraoui will try to bounce back in Mexico where she signed for Club America, the Mexico club announced on Monday, almost two years after the attack she suffered in Yvelines. The former FC Barcelona, PSG and OL player, with whom she won the Champions League three times, was released this summer by Paris Saint-Germain at the end of “two stormy years hellish,” according to her.
In November 2021, upon returning from a team dinner, she was violently attacked with an iron bar by hooded men. Her Parisian teammate Aminata Diallo was subsequently placed in pre-trial detention and then indicted in this case against the backdrop of a rivalry between players.
Hamraoui not selected by Renard
The affair, which was highly publicized and involved the positions taken by other players from PSG and the French women’s team, greatly disrupted the career of Hamraoui, 33 years old, 41 caps for Les Bleues. The midfielder denounced an “injustice” when she learned that she had not been selected by Hervé Renard for the 2023 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand this summer.