On May 28, Kheira Hamraoui said goodbye to Paris Saint-Germain after two years in which she has experienced authentic agony after being beaten up by several men in November 2021. An attack for which Aminata Diallo, Hamraoui’s partner and friend at the time, was also arrested. Now, the French soccer player has published a book entitled ‘Kheira, a contre-pied’ where she describes the Parisian club as “inhumane” and assures that she was treated there “like the plague”.
“In addition to the trauma I suffered that night, I will face his indifference, his cruelty, not to say a form of abuse towards me,” Hamraoui writes in words reproduced by the newspaper ‘L’Equipe’. In the book, the French soccer player assures that “I was a victim of cyberbullying, insulted, dragged through the mud during matches and I do not receive any support from my employer who wallows in silence.”
The publication of a book that comes after her departure from PSG, which the player herself announced through a statement on her Twitter account. “I close the most painful stage of my career. Despite two hellish years in which the club abandoned me and did everything possible to make me leave, I was able to withstand the pressure day by day. I promised myself that I would deliver my contract until the end and I have done it with faith and courage”.
The end of a stage for Hamraoui, who received another bad news a few days ago after learning that she was not part of the first list of 26 players that the French coach Hervé Renard announced on June 6 for the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. A decision that Renard described as “sporting”, but with which the footballer was not at all satisfied.
Invited this Wednesday by ‘France Inter’, Hamraoui expressed her dissatisfaction with the decision of the coach, chosen after the dismissal of Corinne Diacre due to discrepancies with the players. “I am very sad, angry, it is an injustice. I have lived a lot in recent years and this is one more injustice. I would have liked very much to be judged simply by the athlete,” she declared.
“Living in a World Cup is everyone’s dream, whether you’re on the pitch or on the bench, for me it’s not an argument. I had my sights set on reaching this World Cup and that’s what kept me alive last season and not Having my name on the list hurt me. The coach said that he was only judging the athlete and I think they didn’t judge me only as an athlete,” added the Parisian player.
A call to which former captain Amandine Henry returned after two years of absence. The midfielder (33), who won the last of her 93 caps in November 2020, has been out of the French squad since she fell out with former coach Corinne Diacre.
