El Kaabi, who plays his club football for Greek giants Olympiacos, left school at the age of 15 to become a carpenter in order to financially support his family. He had to give up the trade in order to sign a professional contract with hometown side Racing Athletic Club Casablanca, before then joining top-flight outfit RS Berkane in 2017.<\/p>\n
After impressing in Morocco’s first division, he received a national team call-up and a mega-money move to Chinese Super League side Hebei China Fortune thereafter. Spells back home with Wydad AC, Turkish side Hatayspor and Qatari-based Al-Sadd followed before heading to Olympiacos in 2023, where he has scored 75 goals in 115 matches and was part of the team that won the 2023-24 Conference League, taking home the Player of the Tournament award in the process.<\/p>\n
At international level, El Kaabi has represented the Atlas Lions at four major tournaments, scoring 18 times in 48 caps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"El Kaabi, who plays his club football for Greek giants Olympiacos, left school at the age of 15…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[178989,154970,178988,27986,178990,403,99],"class_list":["post-363241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-a-el-kaabi","tag-africa-cup-of-nations","tag-comoros","tag-morocco","tag-morocco-vs-comoros","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}