{"id":528502,"date":"2025-05-05T23:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/?p=528502"},"modified":"2025-05-05T23:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T21:00:20","slug":"marc-vivien-foe-award-2025-hakimi-among-final-three-contenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/marc-vivien-foe-award-2025-hakimi-among-final-three-contenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc-Vivien Fo\u00e9 Award 2025: Hakimi among final three contenders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The shortlist for the 2025 Marc-Vivien Fo\u00e9 Award was unveiled on Monday, with Morocco\u2019s Achraf Hakimi, Senegal\u2019s Habib Diarra, and Ivory Coast\u2019s Evan Guessand making up the final three nominees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who will succeed Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang? The Gabonese striker, winner of last year\u2019s award, is not in the running this time. The prize, which honors the best African player in France\u2019s Ligue 1, is now down to three contenders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leading the shortlist is 20-year-old Habib Diarra. The Senegalese defensive midfielder has been a standout performer for RC Strasbourg, where he has already become an undisputed starter\u2014and the team\u2019s captain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next is Evan Guessand, an Ivorian striker and the main attacking threat for OGC Nice. The 23-year-old has carried his team this season with a series of crucial goals, establishing himself as a key figure in their campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final contender is Achraf Hakimi, Paris Saint-Germain\u2019s Moroccan right-back. A finalist last year, Hakimi is widely seen as the favorite to win the 2025 edition of the award, thanks to another strong season in Ligue 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winner will be announced on May 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Prix Marc-Vivien Fo\u00e9 2025: Habib Diarra, Evann Guessand et Achraf Hakimi sont les trois finalistes<br>\u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lD9x64PUVZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/lD9x64PUVZ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rUaqPcaY1c\">pic.twitter.com\/rUaqPcaY1c<\/a><\/p>&mdash; RFI (@RFI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RFI\/status\/1919427756858716360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 5, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shortlist for the 2025 Marc-Vivien Fo\u00e9 Award was unveiled on Monday, with Morocco\u2019s Achraf Hakimi, Senegal\u2019s Habib Diarra, and Ivory Coast\u2019s Evan Guessand making up the final three nominees. Who will succeed Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang? The Gabonese striker, winner of last year\u2019s award, is not in the running this time. The prize, which honors the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":527413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"pays":[93],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-528502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football-news-benews-sport","8":"pays-europe"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528512,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528502\/revisions\/528512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528502"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=528502"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=528502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}