Amine Harit

Amine Harit
Harit in action with Morocco at the 2018 FIFA World Cup
Personal information
Full name Amine Harit
Date of birth (1997-06-18) 18 June 1997
Place of birth Pontoise, France
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Schalke 04
Number 25
Youth career
2003–2004 Argenteuil C.O.
2004–2007 Espérance Paris 19ème
2007–2008 Paris Saint-Germain
2008–2011 Espérance Paris 19ème
2011–2012 Red Star
2012–2016 Nantes
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2016 Nantes II 15 (0)
2016–2017 Nantes 30 (1)
2017– Schalke 04 36 (3)
National team‡
2015 France U18 2 (1)
2015–2016 France U19 12 (0)
2016–2017 France U20 9 (1)
2017 France U21 2 (1)
2017– Morocco 7 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:41, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 18:41, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Amine Harit (Arabic: أمين حاريث‎; born 18 June 1997) is a French-born Moroccan professional footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Schalke 04 and the Morocco national team.

Club career

Nantes

Harit made his debut for the Ligue 1 side on 13 August 2016 against Dijon. He played the whole match in a 1–0 away win.[2]

Schalke 04

On 10 July 2017, Schalke 04 announced the signing of Harit on a four-year contract. The transfer fee paid to Nantes was reported as €8 million which could rise to €10 million with bonuses.[3]
He made his debut for the German club on 14 August in a DFB-Pokal against BFC Dynamo. He started the match and came off at halftime of a 2–0 away win.[4]
On 25 November 2017, Harit scored his first ever Bundesliga goal against Ruhr rivals Borussia Dortmund as Schalke overturned a 4–0 deficit to a 4–4 draw in a historic Revierderby match.

He was named Bundesliga 'rookie of the month' for December 2017,[5] going on to take the Bundesliga Rookie of the Year award for the 2017–18.[6]

International career

Harit represented the France national youth teams starting from the France national under-18 football team until the France U21s. Harit is of Moroccan descent, and refused a call up to the Morocco U19s in October 2015.[7] However on 12 September 2017, Harit decided to switch his allegiance to the Moroccan National Team.[8]

On 7 October 2017, he made his international debut for Morocco in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Gabon at the Stade Mohammed V in Casablanca, replacing Nordin Amrabat in the 90th minute of the 3–0 victory.[9]

In May 2018 he was named in Morocco's 23-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.[10]

Personal life

Harit is muslim.[11] He was involved in a car accident in Marrakesh in 2018, in which a 30-year-old man was killed.[6]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 29 September 2018[12]
Club Season League Cup League Cup Europe Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Nantes II
2014–15 Championnat de France Amateur Group D 10————10
2015–16 Championnat de France Amateur Group D 141————141
Nantes 2016–17 Ligue 1 3011030——341
Schalke 04 2017–18 Bundesliga 31340———353
2018–19 Bundesliga 501[lower-alpha 1]0—1[lower-alpha 2]0—70
Career total 81560301000915
  1. ↑ Appearance in DFB Pokal
  2. ↑ Appearance in UEFA Champions League

International

As of match played 15 June 2018 [13]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Morocco 201720
201850
Total70

Honours

International

Individual

References

  1. ↑ "2018 FIFA World Cup Russia – List of Players" (PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 4 June 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  2. ↑ "Dijon vs. Nantes - 13 August 2016 - Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "Alles klar: Schalke schnappt sich Harit". kicker Online (in German). 10 July 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  4. ↑ "BFC Dynamo vs. Schalke 04 - 14 August 2017 - Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  5. ↑ "Schalke's Amine Harit named TAG Heuer Rookie of the Month for December | bundesliga.com". bundesliga.com - the official Bundesliga website. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  6. 1 2 3 "Schalke's Amine Harit has passport confiscated over fatal road accident". dw.com. Deutsche Welle. 30 June 2018. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
  7. ↑ http://frmf.ma/fr/article/liste-des-joueurs-convoqu%C3%A9es-au-stage-de-lequipe-nationale-des-u19%5Bdead+link%5D
  8. ↑ "Harit switches from France to Morocco". Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  9. ↑ "Maroc vs. Gabon - 7 October 2017 - Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  10. ↑ "Boufal left out of Morocco squad".
  11. ↑ Naber, Ibrahim (2018-08-08). "Amine Harit: „Scharia wird in Deutschland jeden Tag angewandt"". DIE WELT. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
  12. ↑ "A. Harit". Soccerway. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
  13. ↑ "Amine Harit". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmerman.
  14. ↑ "Technical Reportfinals" (PDF). UEFA.com. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
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