Riyad Mahrez

Riyad Karim Mahrez (Arabic: رياض كريم محرز‎, romanized: Riyāḍ Karīm Maḥraz; born 21 February 1991) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for Premier League club Manchester City and captains the Algerian national team.

Riyad Mahrez
Mahrez lining up for Algeria in 2014
Personal information
Full name Riyad Karim Mahrez[1]
Date of birth (1991-02-21) 21 February 1991[2]
Place of birth Sarcelles, France
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)[3]
Position(s) Winger
Club information
Current team
 Manchester City
Number 26
Youth career
2004–2009 AAS Sarcelles
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009–2010 Quimper 27 (1)
2010–2013 Le Havre II 60 (24)
2011–2014 Le Havre 60 (6)
2014–2018 Leicester City 158 (42)
2018– Manchester City 75 (23)
National team‡
2014– Algeria 61 (18)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:05, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15:51, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Mahrez began his career as a youth player for French club AAS Sarcelles. He turned professional in 2009 with Quimper, where he played for only one season before moving to Le Havre, spending a total of three years with them, initially playing for their reserve team and then becoming a first-team regular. In January 2014, Mahrez signed for English side Leicester City, helping them win the Championship and promotion to the Premier League at the end of his first season. In the 2015–16 season he was the Algerian Footballer of the Year, the PFA Players' Player of the Year, and was a member of the Premier League PFA Team of the Year as he helped Leicester City win the Premier League. He signed for Manchester City in 2018, winning the Premier League, FA Cup and EFL Cup in his first season.

Born in France, Mahrez made his international debut for Algeria in 2014 and represented them at the 2014 FIFA World Cup and at the 2015, 2017 and 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, winning the African Cup of Nations in 2019. In 2016 he was named CAF's African Footballer of the Year.

Early life

Mahrez was born in Sarcelles, France, to an Algerian father and a mother of Algerian and Moroccan descent.[4] His father Ahmed was from Beni Snous, Tlemcen District.[5] Growing up, Mahrez would regularly spend his holidays in Algeria.[6][7] His childhood friends included fellow footballers such as Wissam Ben Yedder.[8]

Mahrez's father had played football in Algeria.[7] When Mahrez was fifteen, his father died of a heart attack. He reflected that "I don't know if I started to be more serious but after the death of my dad things started to go for me. Maybe in my head, I wanted it more".[7]

Club career

Early career

Although often overlooked by teams due to his slender build, Mahrez developed ball skills that brought him attention.[7]

He joined AAS Sarcelles in 2004.[9]

In 2009, Mahrez joined CFA side Quimper from AAS Sarcelles, making 22 appearances and scoring 2 goals in his first season with the club.[10] While playing for Quimper he lived with Mathias Pogba.[9]

He joined Le Havre in 2010, turning down offers from leading French teams Paris Saint-Germain and Marseille to join them, being enticed by their youth system.[7] He initially played for their reserve team, Le Havre II, before going on to play 60 times and score 6 goals for the first team in the French Ligue 2 from 2011 until leaving in January 2014.[3][11] He criticised Ligue 2 for what he saw as a reliance on defence and teams aiming for a goalless draw in every match.[7]

Leicester City
Mahrez playing for Leicester in 2014
Mahrez taking a free kick away to Arsenal in February 2015.

2013–14 season

While Mahrez was playing for Le Havre, English Championship club Leicester City's scout Steve Walsh was monitoring teammate Ryan Mendes, but was instead impressed by Mahrez.[12] Mahrez had never heard of Leicester, whom he initially presumed to be a rugby club.[13] On 11 January 2014, he signed a three-and-a-half-year contract.[14][15] His friends and family were initially sceptical of a move to English football due to its physical nature, believing that his style of play would be more suited to Spain.[7]

Mahrez made his debut on 25 January 2014, coming on in the 79th minute as a substitute replacing fellow winger Lloyd Dyer, in the 2–0 win against Middlesbrough.[16] After making four substitute appearances for Leicester, including scoring his first goal for the club, an 82nd-minute equaliser against local rivals Nottingham Forest, manager Nigel Pearson announced in February 2014 that he thought Mahrez was ready to start games.[17] Leicester ended the season as winners of the Championship, returning to the Premier League for the first time in ten years.[18]

2014–15 season

Mahrez made his Premier League debut on 16 August 2014, and scored his first goal in the division on 4 October 2014 in a 2–2 draw with Burnley.[19][20] Mahrez was part of the Leicester team that won seven of its final nine matches of the season to avoid relegation to the Football League. He scored both goals in a 2–0 defeat of Southampton on 9 May[21] and ended the season with four goals and three assists from 30 appearances.[22]

2015–16 season

He signed a new four-year contract with Leicester in August 2015.[23] On 8 August 2015, Mahrez scored two goals in the season opener against Sunderland in a 4–2 home win.[24] He was later described as the club's "match winner" by captain Wes Morgan, following "superb form" which saw him score four goals in the first three games of the season.[25]

After scoring four goals in the opening four games of the 2015–16 season, Mahrez was nominated for the Premier League Player of the Month award.[26] By 3 November 2015, he had scored seven goals in 10 Premier League games.[27] On 5 December, Mahrez scored a hat-trick as Leicester defeated Swansea City 3–0 to go top of the Premier League, putting him on ten league goals for the season and making him the first Algerian to score a Premier League hat-trick.[28] Mahrez and his midfield partners Marc Albrighton, N'Golo Kanté and Danny Drinkwater received plaudits for their part in Leicester's early season run of form,[29] and manager Claudio Ranieri described Mahrez and forward Jamie Vardy as "priceless" ahead of the January transfer window.[30]

In January 2016 Mahrez's transfer value was said to have risen from £4.5 million to £30.1 million, ranking him among the top 50 most valuable players in Europe.[31][32] In the same year, Mahrez's popularity in his homeland led Leicester to have over almost three times as many Facebook fans in Algeria than in the UK.[33] The barbershop in Sarcelles that he frequented from his childhood became a destination for fans from as far as Belgium, desiring the same haircut.[9]

Mahrez was one of four Leicester players named in the PFA Team of the Year in April 2016,[34] and later that month he won the PFA Players' Player of the Year award.[35] He was the first African to earn the accolade.[36] When Leicester finished the season as champions, Mahrez became the first Algerian to win a Premier League medal.[37]

2016–17 season
I am fiercely ambitious and feel now is the time to move on to a new experience. I've always enjoyed a good relationship with the chairman and everyone at the club, and I hope I have been able to repay the faith shown to me by my performances and commitment on the pitch during my time here.

— Mahrez speaking to The Guardian about his desire to leave Leicester City.[38]

He signed a new four-year contract with Leicester in August 2016.[39] He was nominated for the Ballon d'Or in October 2016,[40] finishing seventh.[41] He won the BBC African Footballer of the Year award in December 2016.[42] Mahrez did not offer a big season especially with the decline in the level of Leicester, but helped the team's arrival in the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time, scoring four goals and two assists.[43] On 6 May, Mahrez played his 100th Premier League game for Leicester, against Watford, scoring in the process.[44][45]

2017–18 season

At the end of the 2016–17 season, Mahrez announced that he wished to leave the club.[46] Following the announcement, Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger stated his interest in signing Mahrez,[47] and Italian side Roma had a bid for Mahrez rejected in July 2017.[48] In August 2017 he spoke of his "focus" despite his uncertain future at the club.[49] The Algerian Football Federation reported on 31 August, the last day of the transfer window, that it had allowed him to leave the national team and travel quickly to Europe in order to complete his transfer to an interested club; this transfer did not materialise.[50][51] In January 2018 he again asked for a transfer away from the club.[52] After a move to Manchester City fell through,[53] Mahrez stopped attending training at Leicester.[54] His behaviour was criticised by commentator and former player Chris Sutton.[55] Mahrez was critical about the "untrue assumptions" about his absence from the team,[56] and later thanked his teammates for their support.[57]

2018–19 season

On 10 July 2018, Manchester City confirmed the signing of Mahrez on a five-year contract. The transfer fee of £60m made Mahrez the most expensive African footballer, and also Manchester City's most expensive signing and a record transfer fee received by Leicester City.[58][59][60] He stated he wanted to win the Champions League with the club.[61] He made his debut as a starter on 5 August, as City defeated Chelsea 2–0 to win the 2018 FA Community Shield at Wembley Stadium.[62] On 22 September 2018, coming on as a substitute in the 61st minute Mahrez scored a brace for Citizens against Cardiff City, The first goal was his first with Manchester City.[63]

On 29 October 2018, Mahrez scored the only goal for Manchester City in a 1–0 away victory against Tottenham Hotspur. He dedicated the goal to Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, the former owner of his previous club Leicester City, who had recently died in a helicopter crash.[64] On 24 February 2019, Mahrez won his second title with Manchester City by winning the EFL Cup against Chelsea, also won the best player of the EFL Cup although he did not participate in the final.[65][66]

At the end of his first season with Manchester City, despite having "limited playing time" (including just 14 league starts),[67] Mahrez won the Premier League title for the second time, and his first with Manchester City, becoming the second African player to win the title with two different clubs after Kolo Touré.[68][69] Mahrez said he would not leave City despite his lack of game time, claiming that he knew his first season would be difficult and he had come to a stable team with good players but he trusted his potential.[70] A week after in the FA Cup final, he achieved his fourth title of the season after beating Watford 6–0 becoming the first African player to complete an English domestic treble, as he earlier won the 2018–19 EFL Cup and the 2018–19 Premier League.[71]

2019–20 season

In August 2019, Mahrez missed the 2019 FA Community Shield over concerns about medicine he had been given by the Algerian national team.[72] The Algerian FA described it as a "non-event".[73] Mahrez later started in Manchester City's 5–0 opening day away win against West Ham United, being involved in all 5 of his side's goals, providing two assists for hat-trick scorer Raheem Sterling and winning a penalty for Sergio Agüero to eventually score after a retake.[74]

2020–21 season

On 28 November 2020, Mahrez scored his first hat-trick for City in a 5–0 home win over Burnley.[75]

International career
Mahrez playing for Algeria against Belgium at the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

In November 2013, French-born Mahrez expressed his desire to represent Algeria internationally.[76] He was called up to the provisional Algeria squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.[77] On 31 May 2014, Mahrez made his international debut for the Desert Foxes as a starter in a pre-World Cup friendly match against Armenia, and he was subsequently called up to the full squad for the tournament on 2 June.[78] The Algerian media were critical of his inclusion and alleged that he had paid manager Vahid Halilhodžić for a place in the squad.[79][80] Mahrez played in the opening group game against Belgium, then was dropped for the remainder of the tournament, in which Algeria reached the last 16.[80]

On 15 October 2014, Mahrez scored his first international goal, as well as setting up Islam Slimani in Algeria's 3–0, Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Malawi.[81] In December 2014 he was announced as a member of Algeria's squad for the final tournament in Equatorial Guinea for the first time.[82] his first meeting was against South Africa where he participated in the 60 minutes before the change in the second throw against Ghana substitute in the last 20 minutes where the Algerian team were defeated by a single goal in their last game in the group stage against Senegal led Mahrez the national team to the quarter-finals, scoring the first goal of a match ending 2–0.[83] then against Ivory Coast gave assists for El Arabi Hillel Soudani were not enough to exclude from the quarter-finals 3–1.[84] then in the second Round of the 2018 World Cup qualifier against Tanzania helped Mahrez in the team qualified for the group stage where he scored a goal and assists for Carl Medjani.[85]

Mahrez was named in coach Georges Leekens' Algeria squad for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon.[86] In their opening game, he scored both goals in a 2–2 draw with Zimbabwe[87] and was awarded Man of the Match.[88]

In October 2017, with Algeria's chances of reaching the 2018 FIFA World Cup already ended, Mahrez and his (at the time) Leicester teammate Islam Slimani were dropped from the national team, with coach Lucas Alcaraz selecting several new players.[89] On 18 November 2018, in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier Mahrez scored a brace in a 4–1 away victory against Togo, his first goal with the national team since 2017 Africa Cup of Nations to lead Algeria to qualify for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.[90]

In May 2019, he was named to Algeria's 23-man squad for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.[91] By the decision of coach Djamel Belmadi, Mahrez was chosen to be captain of Algeria at the Africa Cup of Nations.[92] Mahrez scored a 90+5 minute goal in a 2–1 win against Nigeria in the semi-finals of the competition.[93] Later on, Algeria managed to win the tournament which was their first since 1990.[94]

Style of play

A left-footed player, Mahrez usually plays as a right winger, a position which allows him to cut inside and shoot on goal with his stronger foot, or make deliveries into the penalty area; however, he is a versatile player, who is capable of playing anywhere across the front line, both in the centre, or on either flank. A quick, creative, and technically gifted player, his main traits are his trickery, balance, turn of pace, flair, and dribbling skills. Although he is capable of scoring goals, he is also an excellent assist provider, courtesy of his ability to create chances for his teammates.[95][96][97][98][99][100][101] Despite his ability, however, his record from the penalty spot has been inconsistent throughout his career.[102][103] In his youth, he was noted for his ball skills, but was often overlooked due to his slender build;[7] when Quimper's youth manager Ronan Salaün and his assistant Mickaël Pellen first noticed Mahrez, they commented that he was talented, a good set-piece taker, and he possessed excellent technique and dribbling skills with both feet, but that he was very slim and was lacking in the tactical aspect of the game, as he played primarily by instinct, having grown up playing street football; as such, after signing him, Salaün advised Mahrez to use his intelligence to avoid challenges, as he believed that he was not strong enough to withstand physical tackles.[13][95] Leicester's former head of recruitment, Steve Walsh noted upon observing Mahrez play that: "Riyad was a bit raw but he had a great touch. He could kill the ball dead and go past people. I liked his positivity. Some of his decision-making wasn’t that great and defensively he wasn’t the best, but you could see that he had real talent."[13] Mahrez has credited his former Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri for helping him to develop the tactical aspect of his game.[95] During his time at Manchester City under manager Pep Guardiola, Mahrez was also able to improve his defensive skills and work-rate, as well as his decision–making.[104][105][106] However, Mahrez has his own special move dubbed as "La spéciale", in which he fakes a shot with his left foot, then he flicks the ball behind the right foot to dribble his opponent.[107][108]

Personal life

Mahrez married his English girlfriend Rita Johal in 2015.[7][109] Their daughter was born later that year.[110] In June 2019, the couple, who by that time had two daughters, were ordered to pay a former nanny more than £3,600 in unpaid wages.[111] In October 2020, it was confirmed that Mahrez is now in a relationship with model Taylor Ward after splitting from Johal.[112]

Mahrez is a practising Muslim.[113][114] In June 2017, he made the Umrah pilgrimage to Mecca.[115]

In May 2020, Mahrez lost hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of valuables after his penthouse apartment in Manchester was burgled.[116]

On 7 September 2020, he tested positive for COVID-19.[117]

Career statistics

Club
As of match played 3 February 2021.[10][3][19][118][119]
Club Season League National Cup[lower-alpha 1] League Cup[lower-alpha 2] Europe Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Quimper 2009–10 CFA 27100———271
Le Havre II 2010–11 CFA 32130000——3213
2011–12 CFA 25110000——2511
2012–13 CFA 300000——30
Total 60240000——6024
Le Havre 2011–12 Ligue 2 900000——90
2012–13 Ligue 2 3444110——395
2013–14 Ligue 2 1720023——195
Total 6064133——6710
Leicester City 2013–14 Championship 1930000——193
2014–15 Premier League 3041010——324
2015–16 Premier League 37170021——3918
2016–17 Premier League 36620009[lower-alpha 3]41[lower-alpha 4]04810
2017–18 Premier League 36123021——4113
Total 158426052941017948
Manchester City 2018–19 Premier League 27752526[lower-alpha 3]11[lower-alpha 4]04412
2019–20 Premier League 331150517[lower-alpha 3]1005013
2020–21 Premier League 15520415[lower-alpha 3]0—266
Total 75231221441821012031
Career total 3809622322927620453114
  1. Includes Coupe de France and FA Cup
  2. Includes Coupe de la Ligue and League/EFL Cup
  3. All appearances in UEFA Champions League
  4. Appearance in FA Community Shield

International
As of match played 16 November 2020[119]
Algeria
YearAppsGoals
201492
2015132
201652
201782
201882
2019145
202043
Total6118
Scores and results list Algeria's goal tally first.[120]
List of international goals scored by Riyad Mahrez
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
115 October 2014Mustapha Tchaker Stadium, Blida, Algeria Malawi2–03–02015 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
215 November 2014 Ethiopia2–13–1
327 January 2015Nuevo Estadio, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea Senegal1–02–02015 Africa Cup of Nations
417 November 2015Mustapha Tchaker Stadium, Blida, Algeria Tanzania3–07–02018 FIFA World Cup qualification
54 September 2016 Lesotho2–06–02017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
66–0
715 January 2017Stade de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon Zimbabwe1–02–22017 Africa Cup of Nations
82–2
918 November 2018Stade Municipal, Lomé, Togo Togo1–04–12019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
103–0
1123 June 201930 June Stadium, Cairo, Egypt Kenya2–02–02019 Africa Cup of Nations
127 July 2019 Guinea2–03–0
1314 July 2019Cairo International Stadium, Cairo, Egypt Nigeria2–12–1
1415 October 2019Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Lille, France Colombia2–03–0Friendly
153–0
1613 October 2020Cars Jeans Stadion, The Hague, Netherlands Mexico2–22–2
1712 November 2020Stade du 5 Juillet, Algiers, Algeria Zimbabwe3–03–12021 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
1816 November 2020National Sports Stadium, Harare, Zimbabwe2–02–2

Honours

Leicester City

Manchester City

Algeria

Individual

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