Kheira Hamraoui (born 13 January 1990) is a French professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

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and the France national team.

Club career

Youth career

Hamraoui began her football career with Clairefontaine, a renowned football academy for female French youth players.

Division 1 Féminine

Hamraoui has played the majority of her career in the

, for clubs including

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Saint-Étienne Saint-Étienne (; frp, Sant-Etiève; oc, Sant Estève, ) is a city and the prefecture of the Loire department in eastern-central France, in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Saint-Étienne is the t ...

, and PSG. At Saint-Étienne, she was a crucial part of the club's first and only major title win, the 2011 Challenge de France. Hamraoui signed for

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

from PSG in 2016 after spending four years with the club. It was here that she won two continental trebles by winning the Champions League twice, winning the

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twice, and finishing first in the Division 1 Féminine for two consecutive seasons. In June 2018, she announced her departure from the French league and that she was looking for a new opportunity abroad.

2018–21: Barcelona

She left

in 2018 to sign a two-year contract with

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, her first club venture outside of France. In her first season with the club, she helped them progress to the semifinals of the

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for the first time. They played

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, and Hamraoui bagged an important away goal in the first leg with a low shot to the bottom left corner. In the return leg at the

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, Barcelona increased their aggregate score after a goal scored from a penalty, but Hamraoui found herself getting sent off after receiving a second yellow card. Barcelona won 2–0 on aggregate to advance to their first ever UWCL final, but Hamraoui was suspended and was not able to play against her former club. Lyon won the

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4–1. In her last season with the club, she won the historic treble of Primera División, Champions League and

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. On 24 June 2021, she announced she was leaving Barcelona, stating on Twitter that "I've reached ALL my objectives with Barcelona... My mission here is over. A new adventure begins."

2021–present: Return to Paris Saint-Germain

On 15 July, Hamraoui signed a two-year deal with

International career

In October 2012 Hamraoui made her debut for the France national team in a friendly game against

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. She was part of the France squad at the

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and the

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. Hamraoui has not received a national team call-up since April 2019 and was not selected to the France squad at the

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Assault incident

On 4 November 2021, Hamraoui was assaulted in the street after two masked men dragged her from a club-issued car, assaulting her with iron bars. Her teammate

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, who was driving the car, was arrested following the incident; she was later released from police custody without any charges. During the attack, the masked men who assaulted Hamraoui were reported to have said "so like that, ousleep with married men?" On 19 November,

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's wife Hayet announced that she had filed for divorce after it came to light that he was having an affair with Hamraoui. However, after further investigation, Diallo was re-arrested in September 2022 on charges of serious bodily harm.

Career statistics

International

:''Scores and results list France's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Hamraoui goal.''

Honours

Saint-Étienne *

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Paris Saint-Germain *

: runners-up, 2014 Lyon *

: 2016–17, 2017–18 *

: 2017 Barcelona * Primera División: 2019–20,

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, runners-up: 2018–19 *

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, 2021 * Supercopa de España Femenina:

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: 2019 *

Cyprus Cup The Cyprus Women's Cup is a global invitational tournament for national teams in women's association football. It has been held annually in Cyprus since 2008. Although the competition takes place in Cyprus, the hosts have yet to take part in th ...

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Individual *

Squad of the Season: 2019–20

References

External links

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