Sufyan Rahimi.. 6 records at the Olympic Games

Sofiane Rahimi scored two goals and led the Moroccan Olympic team to a historic 6-0 victory over Egypt, so that the “Atlas Lions” snatched the bronze medal in the football competitions of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Thursday afternoon, August 8.

Sofiane Rahimi played a leading role with the Moroccan national team, where he finished the Paris tournament as top scorer with 8 goals.

Rahimi became the first player in Olympic football history to score in all six matches of the tournament. He also equaled the record of Argentina’s Carlos Tevez, and the duo Rahimi and Tevez became the only ones to reach 8 goals in a single tournament in the new millennium – starting in the year 2000.

Rahimi (28) became the first Arab player to finish the Olympic football competitions as the top scorer. He also equaled the record of Egypt’s Ibrahim Riyadh, who scored 8 goals in the Tokyo 1964 edition, making Rahimi the all-time leading scorer for Arabs at the Olympics, shared equally with Riyadh.

At the level of the Moroccan Olympic team, Rahimi naturally became the top scorer of Moroccan players at the Olympic Games with 8 goals, far from the second, his compatriot Ahmed Fares, who has 3 goals that he all scored in the Munich 1972 edition.

The sixth figure is that Rahimi, 28, became the first player in the history of Olympic football to score goals against teams from five different continents in one edition, having scored in Egypt from the African continent, in Iraq from the African continent. Asia, the United States from the North American continent and Argentina from the South American continent, as well as Spain and Ukraine from the European continent, and the record figures are as follows:

– The first player to score in every match in Olympic history
– The second player to score 8 goals in the new millennium
– The first Arab football scorer at the Olympics
– The historical best scorer of the Arabs at the Olympic Games
– Morocco’s all-time top scorer at the Olympics
– The first player to score against 4 continents