{"id":334231,"date":"2025-12-28T12:05:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T11:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/?p=334231"},"modified":"2025-12-28T18:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T17:02:02","slug":"hakimi-returns-but-with-a-plan-minutes-rhythm-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/hakimi-returns-but-with-a-plan-minutes-rhythm-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Hakimi returns, but with a plan: minutes, rhythm, leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Achraf Hakimi situation remains central ahead of Morocco-Zambia, as it touches on both the field and leadership. Regragui explained that he wants to bring Hakimi back &#8220;with rhythm,&#8221; aiming for a build-up before the knockout stage. &#8220;We hope he will get some playing time against Zambia so that he is ready for the round of 16&#8230; With Achraf, there will be even more impact and speed. And he is a leader,&#8221; he stated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The coach also detailed, after the Mali match, why he did not want to force Hakimi&#8217;s return: Hakimi was &#8220;predisposed&#8221; to come on, but the match context led the staff to avoid taking risks. &#8220;In the third match, we have a chance to see Achraf start or come on&#8230; we preferred not to take risks,&#8221; he explained.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the captain&#8217;s side, recent public statements leaned towards a collective approach: feeling good, but accepting any role if the team wins. As I write, the easily accessible sources I consulted confirm his presence at the press conference on the eve of the match, but they have not yet published a complete verbatim of his remarks &#8220;today.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Achraf Hakimi situation remains central ahead of Morocco-Zambia, as it touches on both the field and leadership. Regragui explained that he wants to bring Hakimi back &#8220;with rhythm,&#8221; aiming for a build-up before the knockout stage. &#8220;We hope he will get some playing time against Zambia so that he is ready for the round<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[1381],"class_list":{"0":"post-334231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afcon-en","8":"tag-achraf-hakimi"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334262,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334231\/revisions\/334262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}