“I’m leaving with my head held high”: Kheira Hamraoui’s last message before leaving the women’s PSG

It’s the end of the “ordeal” for Kheira Hamraoui. The Paris-Saint-Germain player announced on her social networks that she was leaving the club, her contract coming to an end. In her message, the tricolor international (39 caps) claims to have had to show “pride and courage” to complete her lease. She even speaks of the page “the most painful of (her) career”.

Since his attack by four men after returning from a team dinner on November 4, 2021, Kheira Hamraoui’s life at PSG has been turned upside down. Aminata Diallo, her teammate who was driving the car during the attack, was suspected of being the sponsor and even indicted on September 16, 2022. Only part of the Parisian locker room, in particular the players close to Diallo, had then returned against Hamraoui, including Kadidiatou Diani and Marie-Antoinette Katoto. After an altercation with Sandy Baltimore in April 2022, Hamraoui was dismissed for the end of the season before being reinstated at the end of September by Gérard Prêcheur when Katoto had nevertheless made his departure a condition for his own extension. Not kept by PSG, Aminata Diallo has since left for Levante.

“Despite two years of infernal storm in a club which has neglected me and which has done everything to make me leave, I have been able to face this pressure on a daily basis”, wrote the 33-year-old player in a message on Twitter. . “I would like to thank the people at the club who have been kind to me during these two years, as well as my coaches who, despite the pressures inside and outside the club, still made me play. I think I was able to give them back their trust and support on the pitch,” she added. She gives no indication of the follow-up she will give to her career.

During the last match at the Parc des Princes, Hamraoui went to see the Parisian ultras dressed in a T-shirt on which she had written words deploring their attitude towards her.

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