At 26, she has every intention of marking the history of her new club, PSG. Victories like defeats, the defender knows how to manage. Sakina Karchaoui always has her say on the pitch and shines with unfailing tenacity.
The current PSG full-back grew up in the neighborhoods of Miramas, a stone’s throw from Marseille. In the opinion of Samir Touri, her former coach at US Miramas, Sakina Karchaoui had the ball stuck to her heart from an early age. He affirms it in a video published in 2019 by Maritima Médias: Sakina is a fighter who adapts: “She was always going for it”. Sakina Karchaoui was born in sunny Salon-de-Provence on January 26, 1996. At the age of 13, she began her football training at the Montpellier Hérault Sport Club. His trainer at the time promises them a “female Messi“…
It must be said that, like him, the young player carries her weapons on the left. Samir Touri had the eye: his little protege manages to be recruited outside the selection periods. She signed her first professional contract there only three years after her arrival, in 2012. The same year (and the following year), Sakina Karchaoui was selected for the national team and won the French Under-19 Championship (U19). Today, the one whose tenacity is readily recognized is not far from the fifty selections in the France team.
Sakina Karchaoui wants to make history
Although she confesseslike to attack”, Sakina Karchaoui has not yet scored with Les Bleues. But one thing at a time. In the meantime, the left-hander is expanding her record… Finalist of the U20 Women’s World Cup in 2016, Best hope of D1 at the UNFP Trophies the following year, winner with OL of the Champions League in 2020, of the Tournoi de France, last month… We can say that the top athlete knows where she is going… And what she is worth! Footballer yes, but also feminine and proud of it, Sakina Karchaoui joined, last March, the crew of ambassadors of the jewelry brand Pandora…
After a brief stint at Olympique Lyonnais, the player of Moroccan origin signed in July 2021 at PSG. She should stay there until 2024. And even if there have been some setbacks, like the 2019 World Cup which she spent on the bench, Sakina Karchaoui is still recovering. Despite the aggression of her teammate Kheira Hamraoui, in November 2021 and the defeat of the Parisiennes against the Lionesses, in the semi-finals of the Champions League, the defender confided on her Insta account (@sakinakarchaoui): “I am happy to have signed here, despite everything we have been through this year. Proud of my team. I will never cheat, and I am convinced that one day we will write the history of the club.”