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Rabat – Moroccan international football player Abderrazak Hamdallah has renewed his contract with the Saudi club Al-Ittihad until 2025.
Hamdallah, 32, announced the news on Instagram on Tuesday.
“I am very delighted to stay” in the club, Hamdallah wrote, expressing gratitude to the club’s management and fans.
Al Ittihad also posted pictures from the signing ceremony, expressing satisfaction with keeping Hamdallah at the club.
Hamdallah made national headlines in late 2022 after Morocco’s head coach Walid Regragui included him in his World Cup squad.
Hamdallah joined Al-Ittihad in 2022.
He comes from the coastal Moroccan city Safi, and is the youngest of seven children.
“I started playing football in the street with other children of the city where I was born, Safi. As a teenager, I enrolled in a club in town,” Hamdallah once said of his childhood. “I was playing almost every day after school and all weekend. My older brother always supported me. He encouraged me to work hard.”
Between 2010 and 2021, the nicknamed player “The Executioner” played with various teams, namely Olympic Safi, Aalesund, Guangzhou R&F, El Jaish, Al-Rayyan, Al-Nassr, and Al-Ittihad.
Thanks to his outstanding talent as a striker and his well-known “last touch” technique, Hamdallah has established himself over the past few years as one of the Saudi league’s most lethal, feared goalscorers.
As a technical player, his defining techniques are accurate positioning in the field, ability to score with both feet, and a keen eye for assists.
With 31 points in 14 matches, Al-Ittihad currently ranks 4th in the Saudi league. The club’s next game in Saudi Arabia’s top-tier football league will be against Al-Tai on February 4.
